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Varberg, Sweden – December 2010

Some pics from my trip to British Columbia and Fraser River this month. More to come!

I recently came back from a trip to Canada and the mighty Fraser River. I´ve got tons of pics, but let´s start with this closeup of a white sturgeon. Receptors, everywhere!

Huge amounts of Atlantic Bonito appeared this fall at the west coast of Sweden. They are normally found along the subtropical coasts in the Atlantic ocean and in the Mediterranean sea. But somehow they found their way in to the warm water outlet of the nuclear plant Ringhals, north of Varberg, Sweden. A bonanza of unmeasurable scales came to light. Loads of trolling teams from all over Sweden came to have a go at the Atlantic Bonito! I wrote an article for the Swedish sportfishing magazine Fiske-Feber about this phenomenon. Pictures and text in the latest issue – Fiske-Feber 6/2010. Here´s the cover and a couple of pics:

Atlantic Bonito!

Kärrsnäppa / Dunlin / Calidris alpina
Falkenberg, Sweden September 2010

Vattenrall / Water Rail / Rallus aquaticus. Varberg, Sweden September 2010

Småfläckig sumphöna / Spotted Crake / Porzana porzana. Varberg, Sweden September 2010
Click here for more documentation pics.

Varberg, Sweden, September 2010

Brushane / Ruff / Philomachus pugnax
Varberg, Sweden September 2010

Varberg, Sweden July 2010

More pics here.

New twitch! The first encountered successful breeding of Kornsparv / Corn Bunting / Emberiza calandra at the Westcoast of Sweden in more than 50 years. More pics in a couple of days here.

Don´t miss my bird picture archive – click on Bird Pictures in the menu above or here.

Almost 8 months since I took this picture: The call of the wintermoon.

Varberg, Sweden, June 2010

Varberg, Sweden, June 2010.

Varberg, Sweden, June 2010. Female hunting for insects.

One of those dawns… A sunrise between two storms.