Kategori: Sverige
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A rainy day today, with clouds so low that you could barely see above the tree line at all. Not the ideal weather for hiking up to a peak of any mountain, but I stand firm with my earlier decision to put hiking first and photography second, so I hiked up to Stor-Mittåkläppen. Granted, it…
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I haven’t seen the divers since May and I was hoping to see some little divers besides the two adults. But all I found was one bird and it was extremely sleepy, while the thousands of insects around it were extremely busy!
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There’s a small mountain (Volldalshöjden, or Volldalshøgda) you pass when you drive across the Sweden/Norway border here. Somehow I’ve managed to miss it all these years (it really doesn’t look like much from the road) but now I finally got my sights set on it. On paper it looked like an easy evening promenade of…
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Back to the normal programming, folks! It’s Midsummer’s Eve, a day off, and I spent it in the best possible way – I conquered a new peak! Rödfjället is 1243m and really easy to reach. The hardest part is right in the beginning when you have to go up the slope in Tänndalsvallen, but from…
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The last update from the Crane Watch: still incubating. I’m off to Svalbard tomorrow and by the time I get back, the crane babies have hatched for sure and the family will be long gone from the nest. But I hope I have some other animal pictures – bird or otherwise – to show when…
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I guess we can declare the waterfall season open as well! Now that most of the snow is gone, the water level in some creeks is already reduced to photogenic levels. Take Livsäterån for example, it closer to having too little water than too much. Even if there’s still thick patches of snow when you get…
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Latest from the Crane Watch: A swimming crane! I had no idea they can do it, but now I’ve seen it myself so I gotta believe it. Unfortunately the picture is unforgivably soft, the crane was fast approaching the shore so I had no time to set up anything and shot while the car engine…
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I drove to the crane location again and found one bird in the nest, so all is fine and well! I have to visit the place daily, because the chicks can hatch any day now. There was a couple of common greenshanks standing on some mounds which may or may not be nests, and in…
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Exactly a year ago (plus a day) I moved to Ljusnedal. It was a rainy day and quite cool, and on the mountain it had snowed the previous night, so it was almost all white. What a difference! Today it was t-shirt weather, even when the sun insisted being behind a cloud half the day.…
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All the plant life is happy about the rain, and the sunny days ahead will surely transform the landscape soon. And the pollen season has started – I don’t have to look at the birches to know it, it’s my itching nose that’s a dead giveaway. I started eating antihistamins a couple of weeks ago to build…