A month in Sweden

05th September 2011
So, that's me arrived in Sweden to spend a month doing some underwater photo and video work in the Kosterfjord region. We're staying at the Sven Loven Centre for Marine Science in Tjarno, which is one of the most peaceful and secluded places I've been to in a while (excluding the middle of the Atlantic obviously!). The climate and landscape is pretty similar to the west of Scotland, with big pine forests all around the town which sits right on the coast. I've not spent a great deal of time out with the camera as yet since we've been mostly settling in (and today's weather was horrendous!), but it's looking really promising for the wildlife so far, with crested tits and treecreepers bouncing around in the woods just along from our accommodation and cormorants, hooded crows, pied wagtails, guillemots and swallows in the bay. I haven't managed any brilliant images as yet, but I'll hopefully be able to get some improved ones over the next few weeks while we're here.


A hooded crow


One of the many pied wagtails living outside the station


A nuthatch hunting in a pine tree


A not very good photo of a crested tit!


And a small brown bird. Does anyone know what this species is?
EDIT: ID'd as possibly being an immature willow warbler.

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