Kolombiken

In need of some flying and shouting swans? Here you go! 🗣️

Leucistic youngster 🖤🩶🤍

Been meeting a lot of redshanks lately. They’re really fierce birds. I’ve seen them attack gulls, who of course is a real threat. But I also saw one attacking a tiny meadow pipit, just cause it caught an insect a bit too close to their chick who was foraging. A bit excessive maybe. 😅

Lunch? 🪰

Ok, I think I need to post this birb as well. When I spotted it I was searching for the longspur and I was so into it so I thought for sure this was a male lapland longspur. 🙈

Love having the black cap in my local park again. Ps. Anyone else having the urge to shout: “Welcome back!” whenever you notice a new freshly migrated bird?

Two of them had a little fight and I got some action shots too.

Omg! I just got the news that ”our” ring-billed gull has successfully brought up two chicks together with a common gull. This is so cool! Here’s a link to a video about it on Facebook (with talk in Swedish and subtitles in English): https://www.facebook.com/reel/1583787073399174/

New birds in my local park today! Blackcap, it was singing right above my head, and a couple of pied flycatchers. 🥰

Still following the Norwegian ospreys. I’m so happy there are still three chicks! Yr is the oldest, then Bris and Sol is the youngest. Sure there are sibling aggression. Mainly towards Sol. But Sol is very clever and usually waits for the older siblings to eat before demanding to be fed. https://www.youtube.com/live/egjxEzyTi_I

Yesterday we also had our first golden eagle. So cool! 🦅 #dsäv

There have been no meese for two days but suddenly we had a swimmer. Out of nowhere. Of course! 40 🏊🏼 #dsäv

One more “out of nowhere” very early morning swimmer. 41 🏊🏽‍♂️ #dsäv

Late last night we had a swimmer. It took forever before they decided to swim. There was almost no light left for the daytime cameras. 38 🏊🏾 #dsäv

One more just crossed. Most meese this year just suddenly appear at the shore and start swimming. Where are they coming from? 37 🏊🏾 #dsäv

The last light. It’s soon over. #dsäv

No more meese since the swimmer in the morning. Realized I haven’t shared any screenshots of Queen yet. This is from May 3rd: Queen Gluttsnäppa👸🏻 #dsäv

Last morning. We just had our first swimmer. A bull. Not so sneaky this time so we got to see the full swim. 42 🏊🏼‍♂️ #dsäv

We’ve had a new swimmer. A sneaky one again. Was almost over when the camera caught on. 39 🏊🏼 #dsäv

We had a fox yesterday! We’ve had fox before but only at night. #dsäv

We do get to see some moose elsewhere as well of course. Like this one who was looking curious. #dsäv

It’s going to be over tomorrow, May 5th at 23:00. Yes, they will quit early this year due to lack of moose and it makes me very sad. #dsäv

@idzie@kolektiva.social Got it! Sorry for getting it wrong. They have a sound but in my opinion they are quite silent when they’re flying. So if you spot a group of geese quite small, dark and silent then you should study them carefully! (Barnacle geese on the other hand are very noisy and sounds a bit like barking small dogs.)

@idzie@kolektiva.social Yes, I think they’re called both brent and brant. English names are confusing to me sometimes. We call them prutgås. But that’s cool you got some barnacle geese nearby as well!

@laura@mastodon.laurakalbag.com @anarodrigues@front-end.social Same 😣

@idzie@kolektiva.social I hope so too! Do you have a lot of brent geese? They are really rare here. But I like them a lot too.

@handmade_ghost@sunny.garden Love this one so much. Great capture! 🖤

@idzie@kolektiva.social They wave their bills? That’s amazing! I think I need to look that up.

@idzie@kolektiva.social Thank you so much for the link! That’s the best fencing-dance. I love it! 💚

@stubacon@mastodonapp.uk This was a large group for the location. About 80 of them. But they can easily be found in groups of several thousands not that far from here. Especially during spring and autumn. So maybe I shouldn’t have written “big group”. 🙈 Anyway, that’s a good favourite goose! And I agree, they do look good in their monochrome colors.

@bjoreman@toot.cafe Awesome! 👏 And how do I get one?

@arcturus Thank you so much! 🥰 Yes, I do think that at least the feathers are a bit fragile but the good thing is that they can grow new ones if they loose some.

@bjoreman@toot.cafe Is there a sticker for people who are fighting the slop goblin?

@idzie@kolektiva.social 💛

@idzie@kolektiva.social Love the subtle colors and the expression. What a beautiful bird! 🧡

@stubacon@mastodonapp.uk Yea, to be honest I don’t shout either. I don’t want to scare them. But I’ve said it a couple of times. And thank you! 💚

@arielle@det.social That’s so cool! I’ve started to be better at recognizing the call. But I still confuse it with the call of other birds every now and then. The song is so much easier to recognize!

@lichtscheu@troet.cafe Thank you! 💚

@lichtscheu@troet.cafe Oh! Still haven’t heard or seen the bluethroat. I think they might be a week or two away. Got to be quick though cause they only pass here and they don’t stay long. If you miss them you need to wait until fall for a new chance.

@canyakker@mas.to That’s so nice! ☺️

@ambivalena I don’t know! Some of us have theories around a secret underground moose tunnel. 😁

@arielle@det.social Oh, did you? Fantastic! 🥰

@LeoR1010@mastodonsweden.se Fotar rätt mycket fåglar om det kan vara till hjälp? Du kan kika under media på min Mastodon-profil.

@sarahdalgulls@ecoevo.social Thank you for sharing!