It’s amazing how quickly the spring is proceeding. It seems like in November when winter arrived, it arrived all at once and didn’t let go until March. And then when it got warm, it did it with a bang. This feels like the warmest Easter on record!

I walked down to the lake to check if there would be any birds in the floodplains (only some ducks and gulls) and then checked out the situation with the ice. Seems like 50/50 at the moment and in the warm sunshine the rest of the ice will probably disappear in just a few days. Loossjön is not a photogenic lake as such, but when the water level is low like it is at the moment, it becomes much more interesting. The lake is man-made so the shores are lined up with old tree roots which can be quite nice, but the best part would be that it would be possible to walk around the lake. I mean sure, you could do it even during normal water level, as long as you don’t mind hiking through thick forest. I’m waiting for the low water so I could walk on the dry mud – easy! At the moment the exposed ground is a little bit too wet and I can see that there’s still some big blocks of ice in the shaded part of the shore but I hope that in a couple of weeks it will be both dry and ice-free and that the water level hasn’t risen any higher than it is at the moment. There’s a risk that it will rise though, normally it happens every year – low water in the spring and normal until winter when the water mostly just flows out, creating the low water situation in the spring.