I'm looking forward to returning to Hornborgasjön in Sweden next week. Lake Hornborga is the staging site in Sweden for almost the entire population of Eurasian Cranes in Scandinavia. In 2009 the peak day count during the spring passage was 18500! I've hired a photography hide for two days/nights so I'm hoping the light is good and I get some misty sunrises this year - something I missed in 2008/09.
http://www.lansstyrelsen.se/vastragotaland/projektwebbar/hornborga/
Webcameras installed at the main visitor centre give good views of the Crane flocks: http://www.webbkameror.se/djurkameror/hornborgasjon/index.php
Further north, I've also booked a hide for the Whooper Swans at Tysslingen - the spring staging site for around 4000 birds! Some snowy conditions would nice here. See the website at: http://tysslingen.com/
The blog will be quiet until about mid-April as I head straight out to Andalucia after this trip for my usual undergrad field course to Zahara de los Atunes but I'll try to post something during this time. Meanwhile here are a few photographs from Sweden in 2008/09.
6 comments:
I love the first and second last photo's, they look like paintings on a coloured wall. Nice!
Thanks Warren.
Those pictures are amazing!
Good luck with your trip, I think you must be the first birder/photographer I know of who is hoping for some "bad" weather...
fantatstic photos, especially the first one.
bit more exotic than the herons at regents!
I borrowed one of these extremely elegant cranes of yours which look like a chinese painting to match a sad Russian song about war and the story of a thousand cranes which is so moving,with some thoughts. Origami crane is a Peace symbol too.
I have to apologize for not having asked you beforehand.(I love birds and sometimes go bird watching in Camargue, not far from where I live,I am an operafan and retired teacher).
Thank you for marvellous blog.
Thanks for all the comments!
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