Posted in Fire craft, Food and Drink, Lapland, Plants, Swedish Lapland, Tracks and signs, Travel and navigation, Wildlife, tagged cabin, fire, food, mammals, Sweden on 21/10/2009 | 7 Comments »
There are some beautiful scenes across the lake on cold, misty autumn mornings.
To provide more of a feel for the this scene I took a small piece of video
more about “Pictures by sufguy1 – Photobucket“, posted with vodpod
After breakfast I took Teres and Emma for a row around the lake
and later we walked through the [...]
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Posted in Lapland, Nature, Tracks and signs, Travel and navigation, Trees, Wildlife, tagged Birch, birds, Brown Bear, cabin, mammals, moose on 24/06/2009 | 6 Comments »
I wanted to get more video footage so spent the day filming. I began by filming birds around the cabin. A male Hen Harrier (Circus cyaneus) was a new species, flying low over the cabin. This is a Northern Bullfinch (Pyrrhula pyrrhula pyrrhula).
After breakfast I walked over to the marsh to film the Common Crane [...]
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Posted in Fire craft, Fishing and Hunting, Food and Drink, Lapland, Meetups and gatherings, Natural Materials, Travel and navigation, Trees, Wildlife, tagged birds, cabin, fire, fish, food, mammals, pine on 19/06/2009 | 4 Comments »
I walked into the forest to cut some more poles and passed an area where a Redwing (Turdus iliacus) a member of the Thrush family was mobbing me and alarm calling so I decided to look around and see if it had a nest. I did not have to look far
The nest contained 6 eggs
I [...]
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I was up at first light (just after 7am) and went walking in the forest. I decided to walk along the scooter trail to Kiruna. My first encounter of the day was 2 Black Grouse (Tetrao tetrix) jumping around halfway up in some Spruce. Next I found fresh track of Mountain Hare (Lepus timidus)
and some [...]
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Posted in mammals, tagged mammals, seals on 17/12/2008 | Leave a Comment »
This week I visited a breeding Grey Seal colony. Its latin name Halichoerus grypus means “hook-nosed pig of the sea”. These were the types of views I was expecting to get of adults and their pups..
so imagine my surprise when I found pups sprawled across the footpath
This population are Eastern Atlantic Grey Seals. [...]
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Posted in Fishing and Hunting, Lapland, Natural Materials, Nature, Travel and navigation, Trees, Wildlife, tagged bark, Birch, birds, cabin, mammals, snow, trap on 09/06/2008 | 2 Comments »
more about “Snowing.flv – Video – Photobucket – V…“, posted with vodpod
A pair of Pied Flycatchers had appeared over-night and the male was singing from a nearby Black Spruce and they were soon busy collecting nest material and building in one of the many bird boxes available to them. Other birds singing around the [...]
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Posted in Equipment, Lapland, Natural Materials, Nature, Travel and navigation, Trees, Wildlife, tagged birds, cabin, mammals, snow on 08/06/2008 | 1 Comment »
I awoke to find that it had been snowing for most of the night and it continued to do so during the day, but with brief sunny periods.
I decided to walk to an area of marshland about 1km from my cabin from where I could hear many birds calling and displaying, but my singing and [...]
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It has been a long time since I used my hammock and tarp, so I used them at Assington Mill last weekend.
My tarp is a Hennessey Hex-fly and the hammock is my own creation. I use a Reindeer skin (or my Swanndri hooded bushshirt) to line my hammock for insulation. The nights were [...]
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