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The badgers are fully back after winter

zaterdag 18 april 2026

Every day we now have one or two badgers visit one of our feeding tables. We hope to see badger c...

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Squirrel eating on the cottage decking

vrijdag 17 april 2026

The squirrels living around the cottage are very tame. Eating at your feet on the cottage deckin...

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Liverworts mean spring!

woensdag 15 april 2026

When the liverworts (Blåsippa) are flowering we know spring has really come.

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Grass snakes at the pond

zaterdag 11 april 2026

Currently we have four grass snakes (ringslang) visiting our pond. They are completely harmless sn...

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Mother squirrel moving her kittens

vrijdag 10 april 2026

Today the mother squirrel decided to move her kittens to the new nest. We saw her moving four of t...

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Squirrel gathering Christmas lights for her nest

woensdag 8 april 2026

The mother squirrel has decided to start building a new backup nest for her and her young kitten...

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Aurora

maandag 23 maart 2026

Last night, the northern lights were very strong and beautiful!

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The badger has noticed spring has started

zondag 15 maart 2026

Spring is in the air! There cranes are back in the country and can be seen and heard everywhere....

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Fullgrown antlers

donderdag 12 maart 2026

The antlers of the roe deer are looking really nice and are pretty much fullgrown.

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The snow has melted!

zondag 8 maart 2026

The deer really enjoy the smelted snow.

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Badger back for a winter snack

vrijdag 20 februari 2026

A little warmer outside and the badger come by for a little food.

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Northern star (Polaris)

maandag 9 februari 2026

Yesterday I tried to do some simple unguided astrophotography and photographed the northern star (...

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Roe deer still in the snow

maandag 12 januari 2026

I'm sticking out my tongue to all the snow!

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Fox near the cottage

vrijdag 9 januari 2026

The fox visited the bird feeder near the cottage.

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Deer food fight

dinsdag 6 januari 2026

The old one eyed buck is clearly the boss, but everyone is fighting for their food.

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Roe deer in the snow

maandag 5 januari 2026

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Hare in the snow

maandag 5 januari 2026

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Squirrel paw print

zondag 4 januari 2026

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Old one eyed roe deer

zaterdag 3 januari 2026

The old one eyed roe deer and a female deer still visit the deerfeeder often.

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Fox at feeding table

donderdag 27 november 2025

The fox was enjoying some foodscraps.

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Water sniffing deer

maandag 27 oktober 2025

The deer is beginning to grow some antlers now.

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European goldfinch

vrijdag 18 april 2025

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European greenfinch

zaterdag 12 april 2025

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Eating roe deer

zaterdag 12 april 2025

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Vole

zaterdag 12 april 2025

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Squirrel

zondag 30 maart 2025

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Northen lights

vrijdag 11 oktober 2024

With the clouds here in Sweden I feared there would be no northern lights visible last night, but ...

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Northen lights video

vrijdag 11 oktober 2024

Here is a movie of the northern lights from last night.

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Northern lights

zaterdag 24 augustus 2024

A few photos of the northern lights this evening. I missed the really nice event a few days back, ...

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Nuthatch

zaterdag 1 juni 2024

Nuthatches (boomklevers) are usually not very shy.

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Squirrel

vrijdag 31 mei 2024

We have plenty of squirrels visiting our house.

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Four-spotted chaser

donderdag 30 mei 2024

The four-spotted chaser (viervlek) is visiting our garden pond often, just like the broad bodied c...

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Pine marten

donderdag 21 maart 2024

It is always nice to see the pine marten (boommarter) visit one of our feeding spots. It likes t...

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Squirrel

zondag 4 februari 2024

The squirrels trust me reasonably nowadays.

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Red deer

donderdag 18 januari 2024

It looks like the Red Deer really discovered the feeder. He visited the larger feeder now. Still...

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Tawry owl

dinsdag 12 december 2023

The Tawny owl (Bosuil) decided that it was time for a selfie.

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Light pillar

dinsdag 5 december 2023

Early in the morning a nice light pillar (zonnezuil) was visible. It sometimes is visible when the...

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Waxwings

zaterdag 4 november 2023

A few more photo's of the waxwing (pestvogel) group.

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Waxwing

donderdag 2 november 2023

As usual there are many waxwings (pestvogel) near my work at the beginning of winter. They remain ...

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Young squirrels

donderdag 17 augustus 2023

This year we have plenty of young squirrels. So cute to see. 🙂

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Common redstart

zondag 11 juni 2023

The Common Redstart (gekraagde roodstaart) also has a nest at work.

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Demoiseles

zondag 11 juni 2023

At the rivers here in the forest there are great opportunies to photograph water insects, like the...

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Black headed gull

vrijdag 9 juni 2023

There is a large colony of Black-Headed Gulls (kokmeeuwen) at Tåkern. They might not be rare, but ...

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Squirrel

donderdag 8 juni 2023

There are plenty of nice animals to photograph in our own garden as well!

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Oystercatcher

woensdag 7 juni 2023

At work it is time for young birds. This Oystercatcher (scholekster) left its nest on the roof jus...

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Great tit

zaterdag 3 juni 2023

Today I explored a few of the local smaller nature reserves. This was the first fledgling of the y...

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Halo

maandag 29 mei 2023

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Moose

dinsdag 23 mei 2023

Here is a photo of the moose we saw from our kitchen window. 🙂

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Squirrel

donderdag 20 april 2023

  A very special encounter of a mother with a baby squirrel! Normally I am not a big fan of nest p...

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Hare

woensdag 19 april 2023

A hare enjoying the spring sun.

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'Spring'

woensdag 29 maart 2023

'Spring' in Sweden today.

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Aurora

maandag 27 februari 2023

Last night the aurora was really active (even visible in the Netherlands). Here is one photo I sho...

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Nuthatch

zaterdag 3 december 2022

The Nuthatch (boomklever) is always photogenic!

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Fallow deer

zaterdag 29 oktober 2022

There is a group of fallow deer living not too far from our house. Hopefully I will soon have some...

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Roe deer

vrijdag 28 oktober 2022

During the lunch break I met this little group of roe deer (ree). A great time of year to easily se...

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Pond and feeder

vrijdag 22 juli 2022

The first step of our new bird, squirrel, badger, fox, deer etc. feeder and pond is finished! Earl...

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Little lizard

donderdag 14 juli 2022

  And a close-up of the little lizard (hagedis). Most insects will probably not find him so little....

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Flycatcher

donderdag 14 juli 2022

What a luck! I just went outside my office to take a break when this young pied flycatcher (bonte ...

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Flycatchers

woensdag 13 juli 2022

The pied flycatchers (bonte vliegenvanger) seem to be quite succesful with their young!

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Scratching hawfinch

woensdag 29 juni 2022

Something itches!

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Rapeseed

dinsdag 28 juni 2022

A bit late in the season to photograph the rapeseed (koolzaad) fields, but the plan is to be there...

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Blackbird

maandag 27 juni 2022

The blackbirds (merel) are much more shy than they are in the Netherlands, but luckily they still ...

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Hawfinch

zondag 26 juni 2022

The pair of hawfinches (appelvink) are here now every day to eat the sunflower seeds.

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Bulfinch

zondag 26 juni 2022

The bullfinches (goudvink) also love these sunflower seeds!

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Moose

maandag 16 mei 2022

This morning on the way to work I had a brief encounter with a moose (eland). It was enjoying the ...

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Whooper svan

dinsdag 10 mei 2022

During lunch I went to to local wetlands again and saw that the whooper swans (wilde zwaan) are ne...

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Young deer

maandag 9 mei 2022

Early this morning I spotted the first young deer of the year!

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Wood anemones

zaterdag 7 mei 2022

There are so many Wood Anemones (bosanemoon) in the fields and forest now!This time a photo simply...

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Western capercaillie

vrijdag 6 mei 2022

A few hundred meters after I saw the grouse I also met this Western Capercaillie (Auerhoen). A rea...

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Black grouse

vrijdag 6 mei 2022

This female black grouse (korhoen) walked right next to the road. Unfortunately I was to late to s...

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Common Brimstone

donderdag 5 mei 2022

There are many Common Brimstone (citroenvlinder) in our garden at this time. Great to see more and...

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Deer

zaterdag 23 april 2022

This morning I tried the new hide at our deer feeder. It worked really nicely and I got some nice ...

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Wetlands

vrijdag 22 april 2022

Today I visited the local wetlands near my work during the lunch break. After the long winter ther...

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Partridge

zondag 10 april 2022

Here another photo of the partridges from last evening.

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Partridge

zaterdag 9 april 2022

This evening I saw two nice partridges sleeping right next to the road just before sunset. Rare to...

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Blåsippa

zaterdag 19 maart 2022

More signs of spring!

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Black adder

vrijdag 18 maart 2022

It is clearly spring. Finally temperatures above 10 degrees!This black adder was also clearly enjoy...

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Vole

woensdag 29 december 2021

Summer seems to be a long time ago!

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Fox

dinsdag 7 december 2021

This morning there was a brief visit of our local fox at the home office.

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Sundogs

vrijdag 3 december 2021

Today there were really clear sundogs (bijzonnen) and halo visible in the icy clouds around the su...

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Great Grey Shrike

donderdag 25 november 2021

While working from my office I heard a lot of scared birds at the feeding place, so I immediately ...

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Woodpecker

maandag 8 november 2021

This black woodpecker is a regular visitor, but always seems to find a spot to hide behind some br...

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Squirrel building nest

donderdag 4 november 2021

It is the time of the year for the squirrels to seek additional insulation for their nests.

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Cranes

zondag 26 september 2021

It is end of the breeding season, so the cranes are forming large groups again for their travel so...

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Black adder

woensdag 22 september 2021

This black adder visited our drive way in search of a good spot for the winter.

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Male red deer

dinsdag 21 september 2021

It is time for the rutseason (bronsttijd). This male Red Deer (edelhert) was bravely defending his...

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Relaxing roe deer

zaterdag 26 juni 2021

Last evening a roe deer (ree) was relaxing in the sun. There has been a lot of rain, but it makes ...

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Tiny grass snake

vrijdag 11 juni 2021

This tiny grass snake (ringslang) was on the road near our house. After the recent flooding a lot ...

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Young fox

maandag 7 juni 2021

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Bouncing fallow deer

donderdag 13 mei 2021

During an evening drive we saw a group of fallow deer (damhert) that were grazing in a pasture. Th...

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Moose

zondag 2 mei 2021

It has been a while, but yesterday we finally saw 2 moose (eland) clearly. This is really the perf...

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Slow worm

zondag 2 mei 2021

This afternoon we discovered that we had a visitor in our greenhouse. This slow worm (hazelworm) o...

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Mink

dinsdag 20 april 2021

Last week I went for a walk to our favorite bird watch tower, where sea eagles live. Unfortunately...

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Bird art

maandag 8 februari 2021

Bird art in the snow! Apparently two birds flew from the feeding spot fighting a little and creat...

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Moose

maandag 17 augustus 2020

A while back we saw a moose (eland, älg) from our house. Now to get lucky and spot one (hopefully ...

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Waxwing

donderdag 30 januari 2020

The Waxwings (nl: pestvogel / sv: sidensvans) can be found in large groups this year. They are ver...

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Roe deer with fawn

dinsdag 9 juli 2019

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Common svan

zondag 19 mei 2019

The common swan (knobbelzwaan) is the 'national' bird of the Östergötland region, where we live. I...

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Red deer

dinsdag 14 mei 2019

We discovered a new area where there are many red deer (edelherten). This red deer was quite willi...

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Common crane

maandag 22 april 2019

The common cranes (kraanvogel) are back in large numbers. A few hours drive away there is a famous...

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Whooper svans

vrijdag 19 april 2019

Spring has finally begun! Birds are returning from the south and a lot of them are nesting now. Th...

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White-throated dipper

zondag 10 februari 2019

With the snow and ice the white-throated dippers (waterspreeuw) have fewer choices for fishing. It...

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Forest

woensdag 30 januari 2019

Today it was a nice sunny day. Ideal to take a day off from work and walk through an empty forest....

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Island

zaterdag 26 januari 2019

This winter is colder than the average winter here. This resulted in the Bråviken bay completely f...

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Hare tracks

maandag 14 januari 2019

Our friendly neighbourhood hare (haas) made a visit in our garden again. 🙂

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Fallow deer

zaterdag 12 januari 2019

Today we drove through one of our favorite forests. We still have not been able to get a nice phot...

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Squirrel

maandag 24 december 2018

Just a picture of a squirrel from last summer. They are always fun to photograph!

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Ågelsjön

zondag 16 december 2018

Today I went for a nice walk along Ågelsjön. It was rather cloudy with light snow at times, but th...

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Wren

maandag 26 november 2018

This weekend I saw a small Wren (winterkoning) near our front door. I wonder if it is the same Wre...

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Willow tit

dinsdag 13 november 2018

The Willow tit (matkop) is another bird you can often see in small groups with other tit species i...

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Mushrooms

zondag 11 november 2018

The mushroom season is pretty much over. Only rarely you can now find undamaged mushrooms in the f...

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Crested tit

zaterdag 27 oktober 2018

In this time of year you can see small groups with different kind of tits, like this Crested Tit, ...

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