♥♥A Day out 20 April 2013♥♥
Gnesta, Slängen
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| The Common Buzzard (Buteo buteo) |
Can you see the Common Buzzard? The Buzzard is very hard to discover and is very well
camouflaged where he or she is hiding after diving from the clear blue sky before the poor
prey knew it the Buzzard ended its life. I myself would never have seen the bird, if I had
not seen the speedy dive from above.
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| The Common Buzzard (Buteo buteo) |
Close up, cropped and still it is difficult to see the hungry Buzzard.
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| The Common Buzzard (Buteo buteo) |
I looked around in the area, hoping to see another Common Buzzard. At this time of the year
the mate is usually in the nearby, and I was lucky to catch the mate arriving from the wood,
coming towards the spot where I was standing.
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| The Common Buzzard (Buteo buteo) |
Suddenly the Common Buzzard spotted something, could it be my presence, even though
if I was standing rather far away with a field between us?
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| The Common Buzzard (Buteo buteo) |
The Buzzard turned away back into the wood!
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| The Common Buzzard (Buteo buteo) |
But suddenly I noticed another Common Buzzard approaching the field from the wood,
and I thought that it would be very interesting to see what would happen. Down on the
ground the first Buzzard was still enjoying the lunch.
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| The Common Buzzard (Buteo buteo) |
The newly arrived Buzzard then spotted the mate, and perhaps rival and turned to head
towards him.
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| The Common Buzzard (Buteo buteo) |
When they got closer to each other the mate attacked the newly arrived Buzzard, and
I am very excited and happy to have caught this shot of the attack. It was amazing to see
how the mate, used his claws to scare the intruder. Sometimes the male and female
could make playful attacks however I did get the feeling that "this pair" was the
one down on the ground feeding and the one making the attack above.
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| The Common Buzzard (Buteo buteo) |
The winner let the other Buzzard go after a short time hunting him or her in the air, and
then flew back as making a circle over the field.
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| The Common Buzzard (Buteo buteo) |
The looser tried to get away as fast as he or she possible could. When comparing the
difference of size between them when observing them at the attack, this one looked
a bit smaller than the other one.
Öster Malma
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| Öster Malma Castle |
Arriving at Öster Malma I decided to walk alongside the new wild life Park towards the
lake Malma, after a short while I had arrived at the backside of the beautiful catle.
If you want to read more about the history of the castle you will find more information
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| Wild boar (Sus scrofa), also known as wild pig |
I went back to the spot where the car was parked and headed towards the wildlife park area
where the wild Boars live. It is amazing to be able to get this close to the wild Boars.When
being out in the nature you can see traces everywhere, but you have to be very lucky to
see a wild Boar. Now and then you can suddenly see them out on the field daytime,
but those occasions are few I believe so I think that it is very nice to be able to get
some nice shots on the ones living here in the wildlife park at Öster Malma.
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| Wild boar (Sus scrofa), also known as wild pig |
First time I went to get photos of them here at the park, I thought that they were rather cute,
despite of their reputation and rough appearance. However when downloading my shots
I noticed that the look in their eye was not something which made me feel like
wanting to go into the enclosure and give them a pet. However today
I thought that they looked more relaxed and was very occupied with eating.
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| Wild boar (Sus scrofa), also known as wild pig |
I also took a short movie with my Nikon D300s, and I will try to add it
here as soon as I know how to do so.
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| The Bullfinch, Common Bullfinch or Eurasian Bullfinch (Pyrrhula pyrrhula) |
I spotted a Bullfinch in the bushes, can you see where it is?
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| The Bullfinch, Common Bullfinch or Eurasian Bullfinch (Pyrrhula pyrrhula) |
Close up/cropped at a bit more easy to spot the Bullfinch.
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| Common Hepatica, liverwort, kidneywort, pennywort (Anemone hepatic) |
Every spring there are some early flowers which makes us very happy to spot, one is the
amazingly beautiful Anemone hepatic, in Swedish "blåsippa"
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| wood anemone, windflower, thimbleweed, smell fox and helmet flower(Anemone nemorosa) |
The second one is the beautiful Anemone nemorosa in Swedish "Vitsippa"
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| Commonly known as Coltsfoot(Tussilago farfara) |
The third spring flower is Tussilago farfara, in Swedish "Tussilago" and this is my
personal favourite since the Tussilago is the very first spring flower seen and to me
it looks just like a beautiful little sun.
Aspa Maden
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| The Common Crane, or Eurasian Crane (Grus grus) |
Aspa Maden is a perfect place at springtime, many different birds gather here and this
is the best place to spot the first Common Crane, the Northern Lapwing, greylag goose,
Canada goose, Grey Heron, and many other.
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| The Northern Lapwing, Peewit or Green Plover (Vanellus vanellus) |
More photos will be added soon
Welcome back later!
//Maria
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