As I was working from home yesterday and not doing my normal bike ride, I decided to do a longer ride over the hills to the post office to pick up the Japanese seeds (different post)…I arrived home 3 hours later with a haul of, mostly, winter chantarelles / traktkantarell….I just couldn’t not pick them when I saw them :( Guess what I’ll be doing tonight :)
I’ve never been able to get as close to a snipe / enkeltbekkasin before. Rather than flying off it just ducked down into the water :) Taken with my small hand held Lumix DMC-TZ60 camera.
A large flock of some 200 swallows / låvesvaler feeding very low over a barley field this morning. The air temperature was only +5C…..
Oystercatcher / tjeld family at Grilstad, taken on my bike ride back from work! ;)
Aster tripolium (syn Tripolium vulgare) / sea aster / strandstjerne bottom right in the water near the end :)
I passed this large flock of mainly swifts over a wheat field at Være on my bike ride yesterday :) Click on the link to see the video!
A very tame heron hunting in the Copenhagen botanical garden in June:
There’s always something to distract me here. This morning it’s a Siberian Nutcracker (sibirsk nøttekråke) sitting atop a pine tree in my Hazel woodland (the reason it’s here), checking out the ripeness of the nuts and declaring ownership!
I heard a few swifts (tårnseiler) yesterday evening, so put on my swift attracting CD (I have a nest box on the house) and in no time they were dive-bombing the house and inspecting the box…maybe they will remember next year! My favourite birds!
White wagtail (linerle) is a common bird throughout Norway. Last week I took these shots in the garden…the adults were finding food on my veggie plots and feeding a young bird perched on the outhouse roof :)
I was taking a picture of my second Crambe cordifolia (heartleaf crambe / buskstrandkål) flowering for the first time in the garden from my bedroom balcony. I noticed this chiffchaff (gransanger) presumably gorging on diamond back moth larvae (kålmøll). It then moved across to a horseradish, another plant in the Brassicaceae with plenty of food. Both plants are in my book!
