The main event this month was a two week trip to the island of Gotland. The weather was by far the warmest and sunniest this summer, make bird excursions a drag.
Tag: Vigg (Aythya fuligula; Tufted duck)
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.
March, 2024
Spring is slowly advancing and the first batch of migratory birds have arrived.
November, 2023
Things are slow this time of year. A few courageous species will be fighting the winter instead of migrating. And this was another month rich in precipation, the last couple of days in the form of snow.
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.
July, 2022
July has been cooler than last year and we spent a couple of weeks at the island of Gotland and visited some new places.
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.
March, 2022
The sunniest March ever with minimal rain/snow and with Spring approaching. An increasing number of larger migratory birds, but the smaller ones have mostly avoided my camera this far.
Tavi's Birds 