Dagens fågel - Bird of the day

Finally, after quite a few walks in the neighbourhood, eyes and ears wide open... we have seen what we think was a short-toed treecreeper (Gartenbaumläufer, trädgårdsträdkrypare, Certhia brac...

http://dagensfagel.blogspot.com/2012/01/short-toed-treecreeper.html

With a baby to entertain, job applications to write and a household to keep running, time is somewhat limited lately for blogging unfortunately. Still, I get to do a little birding when I take ou...

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Last Friday the weather was beautiful and I decided to go on a short trip to Laboe - after all, the bus to Laboe stops in front of our doorstep. It was supposed to be a little walk with the baby ...

http://dagensfagel.blogspot.com/2011/06/common-rosefinch-at-laboe.html

So, we were walking in the sunshine along the Hörn quay in Kiel this afternoon. The plan was to enjoy some of the spring weather, go for a cup of coffee and then to return home. With the const...

http://dagensfagel.blogspot.com/2011/03/and-suddenly-little-grebe.html

About 10 days ago, by pure coincidence, we watched a documentary on a flock of migrating Bewick's swans (Zwergschwan, mindre sångsvan, Cygnus bewickii). Year by year hundreds of Bewick's swans r...

http://dagensfagel.blogspot.com/2011/03/bewicks-swans-and-glimpse-of-spring.html

Marsh tit - Sumpfmeise - Entita - Parus palustris About 10 minutes by bus from our place, there is a nature reserve called Schulensee which BTW belongs to the Natura2000 sites. As the lake ap...

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We have had three fantastic sunny days now and took well advantage of them to go birding. But before we welcome spring on this blog, here a quick post on overwintering birds downtown Kiel. Abou...

http://dagensfagel.blogspot.com/2011/03/winter-in-kiel-summing-up.html

A few pics from yesterday's excursion to "Altarm der Schwentine ". This nature reserve is known to harbour overwintering dippers and grey wagtails - we saw none of them yesterday, but maybe it is...

http://dagensfagel.blogspot.com/2010/11/autumn-walk-at-nature-reserve-altarm.html

Winter migration is peeking. 60 0000 cranes currenty in the Brandenburg area and at Falsterbo, Sweden they just had a record with just over 10 000 Common Buzzards passing through in a single day....

http://dagensfagel.blogspot.com/2010/10/missing-migration.html

Did this blog die? No, but it since I've been busy moving to Germany to join Claudia so there has been little time for birding. Settling in in a new apartment and getting settled in foreign count...

http://dagensfagel.blogspot.com/2010/09/bye-bye-stockholm-hello-kiel-germany.html

One of the favorite spots at Hjälstaviken is the wooden path in the reeds known as WWF-Spången. It winds into the reeds across the southern part of the shallow lake that is Hjälstaviken. Fol...

http://dagensfagel.blogspot.com/2010/08/among-reeds.html

I have my brother over for a visit and today we decided to give Hjälstaviken a shot. That proved to be very rewarding. The place is a local migration hotspot for waders and we got plenty. Among ...

http://dagensfagel.blogspot.com/2010/08/sweltering-at-hjalstaviken.html

Stop the presses, I got a new lifer on my Swedish list! :-) Yesterday I returned to Ågesta in search of a European Stonechat . I was lucky and found it almost right away with the help of some o...

http://dagensfagel.blogspot.com/2010/08/death-from-above.html

Taking photos of birds is hard. Just getting the basics like focus, exposure and framing right is hard. Paying attention to things that make good photos - background, composition, colors, light ...

http://dagensfagel.blogspot.com/2010/07/on-lookout.html

A week ago I visited Hjälstaviken, searching for (and finding) Bearded Parrotbill . In the same reeds was I also glad to find breeding Sedge Warblers (above). Although it is more than on hour...

http://dagensfagel.blogspot.com/2010/07/sunny-day-at-hjalstaviken.html

We're back! Actually, we returned almost two weeks ago, but it's not until now I have gotten around to updating the blog. As mentioned in the last post, we headed north this year for a trekk int...

http://dagensfagel.blogspot.com/2010/07/vacation-in-wild.html

The second half of June is the best time of year for vacation around here. Everything in nature is still fresh and although most birds have nested, you still get very decent birding. The climat...

http://dagensfagel.blogspot.com/2010/06/vacation-at-best-time-of-year.html

This weekend I went out birding with two friends and really went for it. It is such a busy time of year for birds and you can stay out there 24h and really feel the activity going on at full th...

http://dagensfagel.blogspot.com/2010/06/fledgelings-in-garden.html

Just south of Stockholm lies a boreal forest called Flemmingsbergsskogen. It is quite easy and convenient to reach using public transportation. Having never visited it before, I decided to go ...

http://dagensfagel.blogspot.com/2010/05/walk-in-flemmingsbersskogen.html

Browsing the pictures from Öland to find the Pallid Harrier I realized there were a lot of images that I would like to share. This post is therefore more or less a mix of impressions from our...

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It's been two weeks since the trip to Öland and as I have pushed this post gradually forward it's become less and less relevant with time, but better late than never I guess. So, as Claudia ...

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We have had a great time on Öland! All my bags are packed and I am ready to leave Stockholm, but as I won't have to leave before an hour from now, I seize the opportunity to dwell on memories ...

http://dagensfagel.blogspot.com/2010/05/red-necked-grebe-barby-oland.html

Here's a quite sensational bird for Germany - in Europe Barrow's Goldeneyes (Spatelente, Islandsknipa, Bucephala islandica) only breed on Iceland, they are occasionally seen along Norway's coast,...

http://dagensfagel.blogspot.com/2010/04/barrows-goldeneye-in-preetz.html

Once again the rain pours down outside here in Kiel, so I seize the opportunity to update our blog and to dwell on the memories of a sunny day in Kiel yesterday. :-) I had already packed away th...

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Definitely one of the highlights this Easter: This white stork that we saw on our way to Katinger Watt on Sunday, somewhere along the B202... we think that it was in Christiansholm, but we forgot...

http://dagensfagel.blogspot.com/2010/04/on-road-again-or-easter-birding-2010.html