Kategori: norrland
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You have no idea how much I’ve missed hiking. Every day I see Ånnfjället from my window and I hear it calling me, so it was really almost a relief that I could finally put on my hiking boots and hit the trail. But before I got there, I drove by the crane nest to…
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It’s nice to have some places which you can visit year after year on the same date. And spring is just about the only season where it makes any difference how the season is progressing. Summer just follows the spring, autumn colours appear almost always in the middle of September, first snow can fall at…
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Happy news – my knee is (almost) back to normal! I walked up and down Funäsdalsberget to test it and I didn’t have any reason to be worried about the knee any more. It feels a bit odd on occasion but I’m totally going to ignore it and just do what I want to do. At this…
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I’m back from Finland and I was anxious to see if the crane nest stayed afloat through the spring floods. When I got there, the crane was standing by the nest as if to show me the eggs! I really hope the water didn’t reach the eggs so the chicks are still developing. Stay tuned to…
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When it rains, it pours. It rained non-stop yesterday and water levels are now up to flood levels, although Ljusnan is still not as high as it was last year on 24 May. I can still see the top of the rock which was completely under water last year. It looks like the smaller waterways are…
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I made brief visits here and there to check how the spring is coming along. Here in Ljusnedal the snow is almost gone, there are just some small patches in the forest but that’s about it. But as soon as I drove up to Hållan, it was very different – there was so much snow…
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I hope you’re not getting tired of swan pictures yet… I’m not! Yesterday I took the Mega-Tamron to Tevsjön, which is still mostly covered in ice, but with a few open patches (in fact, some parts of the lake almost didn’t freeze at all in the winter). So naturally the waterfowl use the lake as a resting…
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Went for a drive in the evening, in search of birds. I found some, but nothing I could shoot, so I used my telephoto to do a panorama instead. They’ve cut some forest along the gravel road to Tännäs, and the view is spectacular – you can see everything from Stor-Mittåkläppen in the north-west, to…
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The migratory birds like the golf course in the spring, so I do my evening promenades there with the Mega-Tamron as company. There’s not a lot of action as yet, I’ve seen some occasional cranes there but yesterday I only heard them in the distance. What I did get instead was three swans on the…
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Since my knee makes it impossible for me to go skiing (the mountains by the way look absolutely divine now, so no I’m not bitter at all), I decided to go looking for some spring pasque flowers. We don’t have any of them here, but over in Hede they’ve got plenty and I’ve seen a…