It is often hard to see into the nests in Norway you can see a nest is active but can't see how many heads are in there. We drove to nest, pulling over at the side of the road to check it with the scope before we walked in. amazingly we could see 3 heads, triplets! This is great as it means we can collect two chicks from this nest, triplets are quite rare as not many pairs are able to feed 3 chicks or build a nest large enough to support them! The other surprise about this nest was that it was next to a firing range, quite off-putting as you try and climb a tree! However, the eagles were not fazed by this, actually choosing to build their nest here after the rifle range had been there for sometime. This is a great example of how tolerant of people some of these birds are. We collected two females from this nest, leaving the smaller male. We checked another couple fo nests on the way home but they only contained. one chick. However a couple of phonecalls from people collecting in Bergen to the south and in areas further north mean we had another five chicks!
After picking up two chicks from the overnight ferry from Bergen the next day we caught a couple of ferries to the outer islands and then borrowed a small boat to get out to a nest on a crag on a small island, we managed to misjudge the tide, getting dropped off on what we thought was the main part of the island and was infact another rocky outcrop cut off by the sea, the boat had left so we just had to take our boots off and wade across! This nest and others that day only contained one or no chicks so we were left empty handed. The first 2 nests we visited on my last day both had twins, we collected a male from each, bringing the total to 15. Our last port of call later than evening was to check a nest on a small island opposite the town of Ulsteinvik close to Alv Ottar's house, the evening light was great and we could clearly see twins in the nest, there was no time to get the boat out that evening but Ingar and Alv Ottar collected our final large female from this nest the next day whilst I headed back to Scotland to check everything was ready for their arrival.