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.

April, 2025

Spring is well on its way and I have been a bit more active on the bird photography front.

April,2024

A typical (?) April with hope for Spring as well as snow and rain. The pollen season is also here, ruining a number of intended excursions for me.

March, 2024

Spring is slowly advancing and the first batch of migratory birds have arrived.

June (the remainder), 2023

A busy month concludes with grand kid duties at lake Yxningen and trips around that area as well as some birding around home.

May, 2023

At last, the real Spring is here. I will leave for a birding excursion in the south of Sweden in a couple of days, so this entry will not completely cover May.

April, 2023

A typical April this year, almost Summer some days, and snow on others.

September, 2022

Another uninspered month. Have to get up early in the morning and join the bird watchers more often.

May (the rest of), 2022

Not the most active period of the year for me after the trip to Österlen. Only a few outings with the camera.

April, 2022

A chilly Spring this year. I started attending a second Tuesday (early morning) club, out on the Mälarö islands (MOF in photo captions below). We also had a short visit to the island of Gotland over Easter. But now it’s time to start packing for the trip down to the Österlen in the south of Sweden for the next two weeks.