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2021-09-08

MOOSE

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MOOSE!

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2021-04-11

This weeks nature mosaic

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Top row, my lipstick flower and a wild flower, not sure wich.

Bottom row: The butterfly is an Orange underwing and the bird a White wagtail.
Both first sightings this year.

The forest ants got in touble when the forest was cut down due to being infected by

European spruce bark beetle. The forest workers obviously tried to save the ant hill. But it is nevertheless quite damaged. I have followed these ants for many years. I hope they survive, they are important to the forest.

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2021-02-10

Wordless deer watching me

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Fallow deer

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2020-12-12

Saturdays critters a grey day

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Kinglet - Kungsfågel

I was walking through the forest when I noticed movement in the branches. A quick glance and camera up. Just pulled the trigger and hoped for the best. It was so dark I hardly saw it. So, I was surprised to see this shot on my computer. Sometimes if feels great to be lucky. I got one more shot but that is just the tail. 😄

This Red squirrel seem to be a regular guest at the bird feeder. For a moment the sun shine through and lit it up.

This little one lives 2 blocks from my home. I walk this way now and then. This was a rainy day and this little friend was obviously bored. Usually it is somewhere in the garden but this time it was just standing there watching.

We had a little snow one day dusting the field making it striped. The fallow deer bucks was grazing on the slope. Guess they did not like to go down as it was really muddy. I stayed put myself on the road.

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2020-11-21

Fallow deer bucks, mostly

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I can count 13 Fallow deer bucks here, but there was a few more at the sides

Fallow deer bucks - Dovhjortshannar

The big black beautiful buck posing for me, bidding goodbye for today.

© NF Photo 201120 at Klastorp

Fallow deer. Yesterday it was sunny, the first sunny day in weeks. I took the car and headed for Klastorp in hope to see at least a few Fallow deer´s. For a change someone was listening. I found a herd of Fallow deer bucks on a field close to the mansion. I think every male in the area was gathered on that field. I never before seen so many together. Only males, no hinds!

I moved very slowly sitting on the ground, well dressed, they saw me but did not care. After a while I got up the slope and slowly went in the forest edge to see them from another angle. That worked too. I was able to get behind a large rock. A few noticed me but did not mind.

Being small and slow is probably a good thing around deer´s. When they left I did too. Then I explored a few fields I had not visited before.

To complete the post I also found a few hinds on another field. But they did not want to "show off" so they took off pretty quickly.

Fallow deer hinds

The dark color is taking over among these deer´s and the red ones with white markings are fewer.

Today is another grey day so I was very happy about yesterday.

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2020-10-19

Fallow deer

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Fallow deer mostly females, fawns and young bucks

First time I have seen them this way this year. In the open like this, calm and relaxed.

And, they did not notice me.

Fallow deer doe and her fawn. The youngest one I have seen. The doe saw me but seemed to be unsure if I was a threat or not.

This is in the corner of a field behind the Mansion´s barns. The harvest is over so the deer is coming back.

I wonder who lives here? Might be a fox but I have not seen any.

This is the forest I walk through to get to the field above. And this is the easy part. 😅 Lots of fallen trees with sticky branches. But, a great exercise. And much more fun then walking or jogging. I like to sneak up on them.

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2020-06-20

Coots and grebe

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Coot on the run - Sprintande sothöna
Not often you are able to get some shots of the coots chase on water. Was lucky this time.

Horned Grebe - Svarthakedopping
Changing of the guard - Vaktombyte

I really was wondering what they were thinking. First a very late point in time for nesting. Chicks should be hatched by now. And then, such a narrow nest on the water surface. The egg is probably in contact with the water. Last year a pair, maybe these two, built a similar nest as this. It was abandoned after a week. I hope this will be more lucky.

© NF Photo 200618 Östra Vingåker

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2020-01-25

Red squirrel

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Red Squirrel at the bird feeder in the forest

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Not much of wildlife nowadays, but at least the Red Squirrel loved to pose.

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2020-01-11

This weeks critters

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Bullfinch female

Bullfinch male
The bullfinches are finally back at my balcony. During winter they come and feed on the tree outside my balcony. I love the visit so I hope they stay. Here they feed on a weed I usually pick for decoration. Sorry, I don´t remember the name of it. So far I have seen 10 bullfinches sitting in the treetop so they might clean the weed too rather quickly. They I go out to pick new ones.
Shot through the window an overcast day.

A nuthatch posing :)

I finally managed to capture this very shy Great spotted woodpecker. A male. I rarely see females, not sure why.

The past three weeks the deer's has been gone. Yesterday I only saw 2 young females far off in a distance. They have been hunting in the area so, of course the deer's are hiding in the forest 😭

I also added a female house finch I took many years ago in the snow. Made some edit on it :)
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2019-11-16

Rainy and foggy days critters

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Dipper, still. only one has come. Upclose the fog is not visible.

Fallow deer
Bad sighting due to fog and a very muddy field. I did not go there thid day. Makes me wonder how it feels for them to sleep in that dirt?

The first Bohemian waxwing turned up in a treetop outside my balcony. I think the second one, among the branches, is a Great tit.

Lake Näsnaren, The white dots in the background are swans.

© NF Photo 191116

We still need rain for the groundwaterlevel to rise but going out is not fun. 😞

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2019-11-02

This weeks critters, birds and deers

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Finally, the Dipper has arrived. This looks like a young one, the plumage is not that dark. I hope it stays and gets some company. Last year we had three of them. They are fun to watch.

In Lake Näsnaren there used to be thousand of the cots. This year there are, maybe, 150. 😟
I also saw 3 of the Smews in winter plumage, they too used to be hundreds (salskrake) 😟
Seems there were breeding issues for both species.

Fallow deer buck

© NF Photo 191031

Fallow deer. It seems like it is the time for their rut. The herd was quite stirred. The huge buck was not there when I arrived. He came from behind me and run out in the field scaring the herd a bit and me too. He was clearly checking out some of the does. There was a few younger bucks too. But this was the main one. When he was done checking the does he came back in my direction. I thought he had seen me but luckily he did not. I was sitting in a cairn and quite safe. I did not really want any close contact with those antlers.
This buck is very dark in color so he might be the reason why so many of them tends to be darker every year.
It was a quite exciting day 😀

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