Etikett: härjedalen
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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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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…
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Last week I thought the river had reached its peak. Then on Sunday evening it started raining, and it didn’t stop until last night, and with what all the waterways being already full with meltwater, the effect was immediate on the river. I swear if I had been able to sit by the window for…
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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…