2025-05-01–04 Öland with Henrik

A four day birding excursion from Stockholm to the sothern part of island Öland. We were around 25 people in a comfortable bus and stayed at the Ottenby hostel. As usual, many early mornings.

This kind of trip often have birds far away from where we are and really requires a spotting scope, but I don’t own one and my longest camera lens is 840 mm (with the tele converter). (If I understand this corretly, that is about 30% reach as compared to a scope with 60 times magnification.) As a result I often have to crop the images significantly. Another problem is that a few photos were shot through the bus window, that does not help either. So you will have to excuse the quality of some pictures.

044 – Hackspettar (Woodpeckers)

Spillkråka (Dryocopus martius; Black woodpecker)
Gröngöling (Picus viridis; European green woodpecker)
Större hackspett (Dendrocopos major; Great spotted woodpecker)
Mindre hackspett (Dryobates minor; Lesser spotted woodpecker)