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…
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…
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…
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.…
As you saw from my previous post, yesterday morning was quite bleak with low clouds. The sun came out in the afternoon though, and it makes all the difference, so I drove out to check the cranes and red-throated divers. I found where the cranes have their nest. I also found that they have a guest, I…