Welcome to my blog about birds, butterflies, moths and other aspects of nature that I mainly enjoy in Svartådalen – The Black River Valley, in the county Västmanland, Sweden.
This is my turf, where I love to be, where me and my family have a house (in the lovely village Fläckebo), and where I also share a lot of nature experience with visiting people from all around.
One of the local Hawk Owls was hunting with an audience the other day. Göran Ljunggren was in the middle of the action for a moment. See more of his excellent work on hus own website!
A lovely, cold but sunny midwinter´s day produced good views of Nutcrackers, Hawk Owl, Dipper and a massive flock of 700-800 (!) Goldfinch with some Bramblings and Chaffinches too. Pictures by Niclas Lignell.
A good gathering of birds in a town area the other day, included 2-3 very tame Pine Grosbeaks, just female-coloured birds. They fed mainly on Rowan berries but also on grit that they picked up from the ground. There they where so tame that we got them within 30 cm and we had to act traffic police in order to not get them run over by cars. A local lady went home and made warning signs that she put up. Great initiative! Lovely birds!
