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  • Daily visit of the fox

    Friday 7 August 2026
    Even when you see him every day, he stays just as beautiful. ☺️

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  • Little fawns grow bigger

    Wednesday 5 August 2026
    Just a little more patience, then the fawn will start eating pellets too and come closer to the ...

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  • Who's the boss?

    Monday 3 August 2026
    The fox needs to be patient. The badgers don't want to eat with him. Watch the eyes in the backg...

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  • Posing squirrel

    Sunday 2 August 2026
    Because of the many and frequent visits from the badgers and foxes, I should almost forget about t...

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  • Friday 31 July 2026
    It looks like he’s running, but I’m not sure if the fastest way badgers move can really be called ...

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  • Pictures on the wall

    Thursday 30 July 2026
    Functionally, the cottage was already very complete, but in terms of appearance it was still missi...

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  • Badger spam!

    Wednesday 29 July 2026
    Even if you see them every day, badgers are still wonderful to watch, especially when they come ...

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  • Shy fawn

    Monday 27 July 2026
    This deer's fawn clearly is camera shy. When its mother eats it always remains in the background...

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  • Hare on the driveway

    Friday 24 July 2026
    Normally we don’t feed the hares. They love things like grass and clover, so extra food isn't re...

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  • Funny badger

    Wednesday 22 July 2026
    As a badger, it is not easy to get onto the feeding table. Why did those people make it so high? 😄...

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  • Wet badger slow tv

    Sunday 19 July 2026
    This afternoon, one of the badgers came by to eat and stayed for more than 20 minutes! Even thou...

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  • 36 hours at the feeding spots

    Saturday 18 July 2026
    Over the course of three days, our guests were able to see a lot of animals. In the collage, an im...

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  • First official guests!

    Friday 17 July 2026
    Today our first official guests departed. It was super fun to be able to welcome people to "Badger...

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  • Greenfinch

    Thursday 16 July 2026
    Greenfinch enjoying our pond. 

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  • Badger and fox eating together

    Wednesday 15 July 2026
    Tonight something new happened: the young fox and one of the badgers were visiting the feeding s...

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  • Yum, tasty!

    Tuesday 14 July 2026
    Nice view from our kitchen window. 😃

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  • Culture in our surroundings

    Sunday 12 July 2026
    In addition to the beautiful nature, our surroundings are also interesting for those who like cultur...

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  • Looking in the distance

    Friday 10 July 2026
    A dreamy picture. What is he looking at or thinking about?

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  • Two ears

    Thursday 9 July 2026
    Two ears with a small hare attached. ☺️

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  • New record: four badgers together!

    Wednesday 8 July 2026
    Tonight four badgers came together to eat and play. They look very fluffy and move so clumsy - t...

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  • Fox

    Tuesday 7 July 2026
    How gorgeous...

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  • Photo hide in use

    Monday 6 July 2026
    When we don't have guests, of course, we use the photo hide ourselves. This time, one afternoon wa...

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  • Beautiful badger

    Sunday 5 July 2026
    It is for a reason we have called our cottage "Badger's den" and have a stylized badger as logo. T...

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  • Fawn with its mother

    Saturday 4 July 2026
    Last week, I wondered if we would get a visit of a fawn in the first week of July again, just li...

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  • Fox during daytime

    Friday 3 July 2026
    After the first visit in black-and-white, the young fox came by in daylight yesterday. Such a be...

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  • Young flycatcher just left the nest

    Friday 3 July 2026
    With all the posts about mammals around the feeding station, I should almost forget to post birds....

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  • Young fox

    Thursday 2 July 2026
    It is busy around the feeding station! A young fox came by last night.

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  • Cheap petrol!

    Thursday 2 July 2026
    If you want a more pleasant experience at the petrol station, come to Sweden this summer! 😃 Due t...

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  • Three badgers continued

    Wednesday 1 July 2026
    A new video of the three badgers. They are still visiting the feeder almost every night! The one...

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  • This time last year

    Monday 29 June 2026
    Last year, one of "our" deer came to visit us for the first time with her two adorable fawns, in...

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  • Photo hide by summer

    Saturday 27 June 2026
    Of course, it is no longer winter around the photo hide! 😀 Luckily, we do not have snow the whole ye...

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  • Young hare

    Friday 26 June 2026
    Young animals are always so cute! The young squirrels already have grown so much they almost rea...

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  • Cottage by summer

    Tuesday 23 June 2026
    Last weekend was Midsummer. The days are very long now (it actually doesn't get dark) and everythi...

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  • Badger slow tv

    Thursday 18 June 2026
    With fewer visits of the wild boars, the badgers are visiting almost every night again. Enjoy 15...

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  • Three badgers together!

    Friday 12 June 2026
    Last night we saw three badgers at the feeding place at the same time! 😊

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  • Badger during daylight!

    Monday 8 June 2026
    We had a visit of badger by daylight. So nice to see it eat at the table again now the piglets o...

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  • Toad

    Monday 1 June 2026
    This (large!) toad was playing peek-a-boo in our pond.

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  • Red deer

    Thursday 21 May 2026
    There are so many deer in the neighborhood! This time we met (among others) this beautiful female ...

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  • Hare enjoying spring sun

    Sunday 17 May 2026

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  • Fox enjoying jam

    Thursday 7 May 2026
    We left some old jam in the gras. The fox clearly enjoyed it!

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  • Cute squirrel

    Wednesday 6 May 2026
    The squirrels are really tame and enjoy the food we give them. We wonder how the four young kits ...

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  • Two deer (look closely)

    Tuesday 28 April 2026
    At the same spot where we saw the two moose before, we later saw two roe deer. These two can be fo...

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  • Sea eagle

    Sunday 26 April 2026
    At a small village near our home we saw a group of crows chasing this beautiful and huge sea eagle...

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  • Two moose nearby!

    Saturday 25 April 2026
    This morning we saw two moose resting among the birch trees, around 50 meter from our house. It is...

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  • Tastes good!

    Friday 24 April 2026
    Yum, that tastes good!

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  • Wild boar mom with four piglets

    Monday 20 April 2026
    At the moment, a wild boar mother with her four piglets comes by almost every evening (or night)...

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  • The badgers are fully back after winter

    Saturday 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

    Friday 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!

    Wednesday 15 April 2026
    When the liverworts (Blåsippa) are flowering we know spring has really come.

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  • Grass snakes at the pond

    Saturday 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

    Friday 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

    Wednesday 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

    Monday 23 March 2026
    Last night, the northern lights were very strong and beautiful!

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  • The badger has noticed spring has started

    Sunday 15 March 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

    Thursday 12 March 2026
    The antlers of the roe deer are looking really nice and are pretty much fullgrown.

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  • The snow has melted!

    Sunday 8 March 2026
    The deer really enjoy the smelted snow.

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  • Badger back for a winter snack

    Friday 20 February 2026
    A little warmer outside and the badger come by for a little food.

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  • Northern star (Polaris)

    Monday 9 February 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

    Monday 12 January 2026
    I'm sticking out my tongue to all the snow!

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  • Fox near the cottage

    Friday 9 January 2026
    The fox visited the bird feeder near the cottage.

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  • Deer food fight

    Tuesday 6 January 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

    Monday 5 January 2026

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  • Hare in the snow

    Monday 5 January 2026

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  • Squirrel paw print

    Sunday 4 January 2026

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  • Old one eyed roe deer

    Saturday 3 January 2026
    The old one eyed roe deer and a female deer still visit the deerfeeder often.

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  • Fox at feeding table

    Thursday 27 November 2025
    The fox was enjoying some foodscraps.

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  • Water sniffing deer

    Monday 27 October 2025
    The deer is beginning to grow some antlers now.

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  • European goldfinch

    Friday 18 April 2025

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  • European greenfinch

    Saturday 12 April 2025

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  • Eating roe deer

    Saturday 12 April 2025

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  • Vole

    Saturday 12 April 2025

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  • Squirrel

    Sunday 30 March 2025

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  • Northen lights

    Friday 11 October 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

    Friday 11 October 2024
    Here is a movie of the northern lights from last night.

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  • Northern lights

    Saturday 24 August 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

    Saturday 1 June 2024
    Nuthatches (boomklevers) are usually not very shy.

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  • Squirrel

    Friday 31 May 2024
    We have plenty of squirrels visiting our house.

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  • Four-spotted chaser

    Thursday 30 May 2024
    The four-spotted chaser (viervlek) is visiting our garden pond often, just like the broad bodied c...

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  • Pine marten

    Thursday 21 March 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

    Sunday 4 February 2024
    The squirrels trust me reasonably nowadays.

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  • Red deer

    Thursday 18 January 2024
    It looks like the Red Deer really discovered the feeder. He visited the larger feeder now. Still...

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  • Tawry owl

    Tuesday 12 December 2023
    The Tawny owl (Bosuil) decided that it was time for a selfie.

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  • Light pillar

    Tuesday 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

    Saturday 4 November 2023
    A few more photo's of the waxwing (pestvogel) group.

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  • Waxwing

    Thursday 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

    Thursday 17 August 2023
    This year we have plenty of young squirrels. So cute to see. 🙂

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  • Common redstart

    Sunday 11 June 2023
    The Common Redstart (gekraagde roodstaart) also has a nest at work.

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  • Demoiseles

    Sunday 11 June 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

    Friday 9 June 2023
    There is a large colony of Black-Headed Gulls (kokmeeuwen) at Tåkern. They might not be rare, but ...

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  • Squirrel

    Thursday 8 June 2023
    There are plenty of nice animals to photograph in our own garden as well!

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  • Oystercatcher

    Wednesday 7 June 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

    Saturday 3 June 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

    Monday 29 May 2023

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  • Moose

    Tuesday 23 May 2023
    Here is a photo of the moose we saw from our kitchen window. 🙂

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  • Squirrel

    Thursday 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

    Wednesday 19 April 2023
    A hare enjoying the spring sun.

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  • 'Spring'

    Wednesday 29 March 2023
    'Spring' in Sweden today.

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  • Aurora

    Monday 27 February 2023
    Last night the aurora was really active (even visible in the Netherlands). Here is one photo I sho...

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  • Nuthatch

    Saturday 3 December 2022
    The Nuthatch (boomklever) is always photogenic!

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  • Fallow deer

    Saturday 29 October 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

    Friday 28 October 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

    Friday 22 July 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

    Thursday 14 July 2022
      And a close-up of the little lizard (hagedis). Most insects will probably not find him so little....

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  • Flycatcher

    Thursday 14 July 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

    Wednesday 13 July 2022
    The pied flycatchers (bonte vliegenvanger) seem to be quite succesful with their young!

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  • Scratching hawfinch

    Wednesday 29 June 2022
    Something itches!

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  • Rapeseed

    Tuesday 28 June 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

    Monday 27 June 2022
    The blackbirds (merel) are much more shy than they are in the Netherlands, but luckily they still ...

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  • Hawfinch

    Sunday 26 June 2022
    The pair of hawfinches (appelvink) are here now every day to eat the sunflower seeds.

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  • Bulfinch

    Sunday 26 June 2022
    The bullfinches (goudvink) also love these sunflower seeds!

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  • Moose

    Monday 16 May 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

    Tuesday 10 May 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

    Monday 9 May 2022
    Early this morning I spotted the first young deer of the year!

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  • Wood anemones

    Saturday 7 May 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

    Friday 6 May 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

    Friday 6 May 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

    Thursday 5 May 2022
    There are many Common Brimstone (citroenvlinder) in our garden at this time. Great to see more and...

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  • Deer

    Saturday 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

    Friday 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

    Sunday 10 April 2022
    Here another photo of the partridges from last evening.

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  • Partridge

    Saturday 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

    Saturday 19 March 2022
    More signs of spring!

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  • Black adder

    Friday 18 March 2022
    It is clearly spring. Finally temperatures above 10 degrees!This black adder was also clearly enjoy...

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  • Vole

    Wednesday 29 December 2021
    Summer seems to be a long time ago!

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  • Fox

    Tuesday 7 December 2021
    This morning there was a brief visit of our local fox at the home office.

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  • Sundogs

    Friday 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

    Thursday 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

    Monday 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

    Thursday 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

    Sunday 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

    Wednesday 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

    Tuesday 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

    Saturday 26 June 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

    Friday 11 June 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

    Monday 7 June 2021

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  • Bouncing fallow deer

    Thursday 13 May 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

    Sunday 2 May 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

    Sunday 2 May 2021
    This afternoon we discovered that we had a visitor in our greenhouse. This slow worm (hazelworm) o...

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  • Mink

    Tuesday 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

    Monday 8 February 2021
    Bird art in the snow! Apparently two birds flew from the feeding spot fighting a little and creat...

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  • Moose

    Monday 17 August 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

    Thursday 30 January 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

    Tuesday 9 July 2019

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  • Common svan

    Sunday 19 May 2019
    The common swan (knobbelzwaan) is the 'national' bird of the Östergötland region, where we live. I...

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  • Red deer

    Tuesday 14 May 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

    Monday 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

    Friday 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

    Sunday 10 February 2019
    With the snow and ice the white-throated dippers (waterspreeuw) have fewer choices for fishing. It...

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  • Forest

    Wednesday 30 January 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

    Saturday 26 January 2019
    This winter is colder than the average winter here. This resulted in the Bråviken bay completely f...

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  • Hare tracks

    Monday 14 January 2019
    Our friendly neighbourhood hare (haas) made a visit in our garden again. 🙂

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  • Fallow deer

    Saturday 12 January 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

    Monday 24 December 2018
    Just a picture of a squirrel from last summer. They are always fun to photograph!

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  • Ågelsjön

    Sunday 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

    Monday 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

    Tuesday 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

    Sunday 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

    Saturday 27 October 2018
    In this time of year you can see small groups with different kind of tits, like this Crested Tit, ...

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