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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.

© NF Photo 210411

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2021-04-10

My forest is ruined

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A sad day! I went to the forest I used to hike to see how much they had cut down as I knew they would! And it was A LOT. An estimation says it was about half of the forest was cut down. The forest was/is infected with European spruce bark beetle and needed to be cut, but that much????

Anyway I could see they saved what they could. Like this anthill. I have seen it for at least 12 years, since I moved to town. It is forest ants and they only live in a healthy forest. It is clear the cutters tried to save them. They cut the tree above the anthill but it is still damaged even if not destroyed. Time will tell if it survives.

This is a nearby birch they cut. The poor ants seemed to try to go to the top of the tree but there was no top. Or maybe they wanted to harvest the sap?

I met these hikers in a part not that much destroyed. YET!

I met them again a while later. They were not thrilled I can tell.

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2020-09-21

MM Nature watch

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Selfie, returning to my car I was certainly watched, but by me.

Another day I felt I was being watched again. Looking up this fine fallow deer buck stood in front of me. Watching!

Bottom row, I did take a walk in the forest. Autumn colors has started and a cool stump full of fungi took me with surprise.

This berry bush was a bit too colorful to fit in the Mosaic. But I wanted to share it anyway.

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2020-07-15

A walk in the forest is NOT a Walk in the park

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2018-12-21

Winter forest

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Winter forest

© NF Photo 181219

Wishing everyone a Merry Christmas and a colorful one! :)

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2018-09-07

Black and white in the forest

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Black and white in the forest

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A moldy mushroom. It has a strange beauty in it´s decay.

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2018-05-07

A fairy tale rock

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A fairy tale rock

© NF Photo 180503, Krämbolskogen

This is a place I have not seen in a couple of years. They destroyed the forest by cutting down a large area so I stopped walking there as it became hard to walk because of all the thickets growing fast. Now I made a revisit. In one of the places it was no change. I was happy to see this overgrown old rock once again.

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2018-04-30

In the forest

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Birch

It was a tree once!

Goldcrest - Kungsfågel

Blueberry twig

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Seen in the forest yesterday. The tiny Goldcrest high up in the tree, hardly seen, still captured Sometimes you get lucky :)
The orange twig is blueberry (bilberry) I think the strange orange colors comes from the draught last summer.

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2018-02-26

A winterwalk in the forest

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blueberry bush

uprooted tree

high stump

© NF Photo 180225, Krämbolsskogen

Images from my walk in the forest yesterday. I show the good parts. What I don´t share is the damage the wild boars have made on the forest floor since I visited the forest last time. It was devastating. :(

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2018-02-07

A white and sunny world for one day

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A white and sunny world for one day only

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2018-01-08

The frozen moss

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The frozen moss

© NF Photo 180107

Visited my favorite moss yesterday. The water has come back after all raining and it is frozen. Loved the look of it.

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2017-11-13

Yellow fungi

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2017-11-06

Found in the forest

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High stump

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A treasure in the forest.

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