Woodpecker search

6:th o February 2010
Today we try to to find Three-toed Woodpeckers for the first time this year. The snow is deep but the Wodpeckers are obliging.

Great Woodpecker encounter

6:th of February 2010
Soon a pair of Three-toed Woodpeckers appear. The male is quite a performer.

Eagles on fish

3:rd of February 2010
When I come up to the lake to fill up the eagle feeding station with fish, two adult White-tailed Eagles are sitting and eating on the fish. I get 2 pictures before they rise into the air. They do however stay around to check out my actions. One of them is especially curious and hangs in the wind not far from me. Finally the couple lands in a tree and watch me from there.
The even more interesting thing happens when I am about to leave. A third eagle appears and it is a Golden Eagle(!), an adult bird. I lay down and play dead next to the fish carcasses to see what will happen. It just glides towards me slowly in the wind for minutes til it is like only 30 meters away. An almost religious encounter.

Eagles off

3:rd of February 2010
..and off they go...

Fieldfares in town

30:th of January 2010
A nice saturday walk to the harbour this cold and sunny day offers 1 Redwing, some 150 Waxwings, 100 Fieldfares and a Little Grebe in the tiny bit of open water. No Kingfisher though. Blackbirds and Fieldfares are sitting in almost any tree in town, just like this one outside a café.

Tall and snowy

24:th of January 2010
This is how great it looks in the forest today. Such a brilliant day.

Berries, Lynx and Pine Marten

25:th of January 2010
There are still a lot of Rowan berries on the trees and below this tree I find footprints of a Pine Marten, apparently it has been attracted to the berries on the snow. At the same spot a Hazelgrouse male calls and the first Woodpecker drumming for the year is heard. Just a "Great-spot" but still. In the lovely sunshine it´s a sign of spring. A few yards away there are even prints and markings of a Lynx.