Birding at Vännervass

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The boardwalk to get to the lake and birding platform on the small island is narrow. Walking through the reeds seem to take forever and then comes an old forest. 
This place is on the far side of the lake and difficult to reach. You certainly don´t want to get dizzy here. 

Mute swan - Knölsvan

There was a few ducks. I could recognice mallards and Eurasian wigeon. Three years ago there was thousands of tehm resting here on the way south. But two years of draught changed everything 😟

This is mostly greylag geese. Frightened by two sea eagles.

 "cormorant village"

White-tailed eagle - Havsörn

Here are the two eagles that stirred up the seabirds. They sit in the trees used by cormorants for nesting. The cormorants are already gone and the nests are empty. It is good that the cormorants are nesting in this remote area of the (still) lake. People don´t need to be disturbed by them.
I really hope it will come more rain to rise the water level or this will be a wetland instead of lake.

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Based on a skatepark

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 The surfer

The watcher

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Created the two earlier today and they will be on my Exibition two weeks from now.

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Watching the sky

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 Knutstorp

Lapwings

White tailed Eagle

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It was a strange day today. Dark thunderclouds and sunshine the whole day. It made the lapwings glitter against the dark clouds. Disturbed by the 4 eagles that was patrolling the area. A family no doubt.

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A grey morning for a change

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Moose male, Östra Vingåker

 Red deer

 White-tailed Eagle

Raven

A grey morning for a change

© NF Photo 151001, Klastorp

This was a grey morning and I woke up early. I went out for a trip anyway and was rewarded greatly.
First I saw a male moose. Don´t think I have ever seen any. Only cows an young ones.

After driving a bit I spotted deer on a field. I stopped the car and went out to get closer to them following the edge of a forest. Took me about 20 min I think. I realized it was Red deer this time. A deer I never seen up close before. This was a male with 5 females. When the male thought I got too close he told me so. So I stopped and started to go back.

Then something was visible above my head. A White-tailed
eagle was circling above my head. A bad place for an eagle to be I think. It was hard to follow it when it was above me and I was on a harvested field. Luckily I did not fall.

Then I started to look for Raven, as there are almost always ravens close to the eagles. And it was.
Then I had been out for about 3 h without breakfast so I drove home to get something to eat.


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White-tailed Eagle in the air

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White-tailed Eagle 

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I was walking from the parking lot to the building I live in when I spotted something in the air. Two White-tailed Eagles was dancing over the buildings. The moon was up and one of them moved in that direction. So I crossed my fingers. YES. it flew straight over the moon.

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White tailed eagle vs Osprey

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Havsörn - Haliaeetus albicilla - White-tailed Eagle /Sea Eagle
and probably a buzzard

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This  seems to me to be an Osprey steeling a fish from the Eagle. But then looses it so none of them get the fish.

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Eriksberg

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©   NF Photo 140306 Eriksberg o Stenta

Finally the birds are coming back. The one in the top shot is a White-tailed Eagle.
In the  second shot...it´s not a bird, it´s a biker. :)

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