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06/06/2026

Happy National Day!
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In honour of Sweden’s National Day, here’s a collection of one of Sweden’s most familiar and beloved bird species. Crane is a bird that almost everyone in Sweden is familiar with, although surprisingly many people mix it up with heron😄🫣
Cranes arrive with spring and are always a welcome sight for Swedes who are weary of the long winter. It also symbolises wilderness, both through its appearance and its distinctive call. It is also a species whose population has increased dramatically over recent decades, for better and for worse. It is, without a doubt, wonderful to experience cranes, not least to witness enormous flocks either resting during migration or passing overhead.

However, this increase also has a downside: cranes are one of the main reasons why many other bird species – particularly shorebirds – struggle with breeding success. Cranes are large birds and, being omnivorous, they will eat almost anything. When they become ubiquitous, there is always a hungry crane around that can quite easily devour the eggs and chicks of other bird species in our wetlands.

Crane has always been one of my favourite birds, but the problems they are currently contributing to have left a slightly bitter aftertaste on this love affair😕

They sure are magnificent and beautiful though❤️

30/05/2026

Campus wildlife – Oystercatcher 🥰

One of the signature birds on the campus of Linnéuniversitetet is the Eurasian oystercatcher – often seen performing its display flights low over the rooftops or, as here, teaching the secrets of life to its offspring ❤️.

26/05/2026

Join me in wonderful The Gambia next autumn!🇬🇲
There are still a couple of places left on the tour I’ll be leading for AviFauna Naturresor in November 2027 😊

Birdwatching and photography tour, 5–15 November 2027.

All photos were taken by me on previous trips to The Gambia and Senegal.

Read more and book on Avifauna’s website: https://avifauna.se/gambia-5-15-november-2027/

26/05/2026

Extremadura next spring will be fantastic😍
Join me on the trip I’m leading for AviFauna Naturresor – there are still some places left😊

Birding and photography tour, 27 April–5 May 2027🇪🇸

All photos were taken by me, on my previous trips to Extremadura, Spain.

Read more about the tour and book on Avifauna’s website: https://avifauna.se/extremadura-27/

Extremadura Turismo

24/05/2026

A couple of days ago, I spent a lovely day at Öland’s northernmost point, which offered plenty of fun bird species, hanging out with like-minded in beautiful surroundings, and some nice photos. The best bird experience of the day was probably the pair of black woodpeckers I stumbled across in Trollskogen, while they were tending to their nest. All photos were taken from the path.

20/05/2026

Last week, I went on a fun photography assignment for Linnéuniversitetet at The Glass Factory (Boda glasbruk). The purpose was to document an artistic collaboration between glass artist Josefin Bravo — who is also a student on the Arts and Culture Programme at Linnaeus University — and the writer and musician Napoleon Maddox. Napoleon is an Artist in Residence within the research group Concurrences at Linnaeus University. Josefin’s close friend and fellow glass artist Iita Villina Jaakonaho, who acted as an assistant, also appears in the photographs, as does Helen Hägglund, operational manager of the Cultural University initiative.

18/05/2026

A small selection of photos from my home region of Kronoberg from the last couple of weeks😊

07/05/2026

Yesterday I went on a road trip that was equal parts fantastic and completely crazy with my friend Thomas Hultquist and his daughter Alice. We headed north from Brittatorp in the northern part of Växjö Municipality at 10:45 pm on Tuesday evening, with our sights set on Gålö Nature Reserve and the dalmatian pelican that had been seen around Blista Bay since Walpurgis Night.

The first-ever record of a dalmatian pelican in Sweden was in the summer of 2025, but I never managed to go see it then. The same individual turned up again this year – first briefly in Uppland, then just as briefly in Östersund, before hanging around for a few days south of Stockholm.

We seized the opportunity and drove north through the night. Once we arrived at Stegsholm Farm before sunrise, we walked out to the headland where we understood we would have the best chance of getting good views of the pelican – provided it was still there.

When we reached the Skäret point at Blista Bay, we could confirm that the pelican was indeed still present, sleeping on a rock barely 150 metres from the shore 😍 The joy was complete. After a while, just as the first rays of sunlight hit the beast, it woke up and stood upright – an absolutely magnificent experience 🤩 We spent almost four hours with the dalmatian pelican and eventually got to see it alslo in flight – an immensely impressive creature, to say the least, with a wingspan of more than 320 cm! 😳 Later the same day, the pelican was spotted in Gävle, some 160 km, as the bird flies, from where we saw it!

Buzzing with adrenaline and floating on clouds, we decided to also “swing by” Kungsträdgården in Stockholm to try to see the ring-billed gull that has returned to the site for a second year. We found a parking garage within comfortable walking distance of the target area, and only a few minutes later the ring-billed gull made its entrance and completely took over Kungsträdgården – incredibly dominant and cheeky towards the other gulls trying to grab some of the chips and bread generously handed out by random Stockholm teenagers 🥹

Back home in Växjö in time for dinner with my wife and daughter. A day well spent 😎

26/04/2026

Today, I guided at Husebymaden some 20 km from Växjö. A really sunny and beautiful day – although a bit windy. 36 people showed up and we managed to record 66 different species from the birdwatching tower. Among them, this male marsh harrier that flew past the tower at quite close range on several occassions.

23/04/2026

I’ve had a break in my WDML series for a while – but here comes the next species:

Grey wagtail/Forsärla
Walk Down Memory Lane: Pipits & Wagtails, Day 3
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All my photos of grey wagtail were taken in my home municipality of Växjö.

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