Close up of a young little gull

The little gull (Hydrocoloeus Minutus) flew past just outside the shoreline so the challenge was not to get close but not to get too close!

Little gull on a sunny autumn day

With fifteen little gulls foraging just off the shore, the difficulty was not finding motives but getting a reasonable distance to the motif. A nice change when photographing birds!

Little gull with a dark background

With fifteen little gulls foraging just off the shore, the difficulty was not finding motives but getting a reasonable distance to the motif. A nice change when photographing birds!

Little gull with backlight

With fifteen little gulls foraging just off the shore, the difficulty was not finding motives but getting a reasonable distance to the motif. A nice change when photographing birds!

Herring gull in backlight

Sunset after a windy day. The herring gull plan to spend the night on the harbor pier in Grönhögen. When the waves break over the pier there are beautiful light effects from the backlight, but probably not as fun for the gull who seeks a dry place to spend the night.

The last flight of the day

Just a few minutes remains before the sun sets for the day, the sky is already taking on a strong color cast by the low-lying sun. The backlit tern appear only as a silhouette as it makes one last pass in front of me on its way to its roosting place.

Long-tailed jaeger

Despite the rain and wind, visitors to your mountainside territory must be examined! Teh long-tailed jaeger (Stercorarius Longicaudus) swept past me and it was just a matter of going back so that any eggs or younglings in the vicinity would not get cold while their parent defended the nest.

Skrattmås i solnedgången.

Black-headed gull at sunset.

Fiskmås från den ljusa sidan! Med en helt grå himmel och inte så aktiva fåglar fick den här fiskmåsen stå modell. Med lång slutartid gick det att balansera så att det vita var på gränsen till att frätas ut. Det ljusa är alltså skapat i kameran och inte i datorn. Ibland ger de 'dåliga' dagarna bäst möjligheter att experimentera och ta ut svängarna vid fotograferingen!

Gull from the bright side! With a completely gray sky and not very active birds, this gull got to model for me. With a long shutter speed, it was possible to balance so that the white was on the verge of being blown out. The light is thus created in the camera and not in the computer. Sometimes the 'bad' weather give the best opportunities to experiment when photographing!

Fiskmås från den ljusa sidan! Med en helt grå himmel och inte så aktiva fåglar fick den här fiskmåsen stå modell. Med lång slutartid gick det att balansera så att det vita var på gränsen till att frätas ut. Det ljusa är alltså skapat i kameran och inte i datorn. Ibland ger de 'dåliga' dagarna bäst möjligheter att experimentera och ta ut svängarna vid fotograferingen!

Gull from the bright side! With a completely gray sky and not very active birds, this gull got to model for me. With a long shutter speed, it was possible to balance so that the white was on the verge of being blown out. The light is thus created in the camera and not in the computer. Sometimes the 'bad' weather give the best opportunities to experiment when photographing!

Silvertärnor på en sten. Hanens uppvaktning med småfiskar verkar gå bra ända tills honan blir mätt. När hon till slut står på stenen med en fisk hängandes halvt ut genom den öppna näbben har hanen svårt att riktigt besluta sig för vad han ska göra.

Arctic terns on a rock. The male's courtship with small fish seems to go well until the female just doesn't have room for another fish. When she stands on the rock with a fish hanging halfway out through the open beak, the male has a hard time really deciding what to do.

Fjällabben kommer gärna fram för att ta en titt på besökarna på fjället, Kommer den riktigt nära vet man att man har råkat komma för nära ett bo, då är det bara att backa tills den lugnar ner sig. Håller man sig en bit ifrån kan den orädd landa ganska nära och börja äta!

The long-tailed jaeger examines all visitors to its territory on the mountain. If it gets really close, you know that you have happened to get too close to a nest. If that happens you just back away until it calms down. If you stay outside this radius it can be quite curious and land close to you and start eating!

Regn eller sol, området runt boet måste patrulleras! Och när fjällabben passerar går det undan, det är inte enkelt att hinna komponera bilden...

Rain or sunsunshine, the area around the nest must be patrolled! And when the long-tailed jaeger passes by it is a high-speed pass. Not easy to control the composition in the photo ...

Vandringsstigen på Runde bevakades av flera par storlabbar som hade sina bon på ömsom sidor av stigen. Framför allt fotografer verkade de hålla koll på, vanliga turister såg ut att släppas förbi utan åsikter, men bar du på en större kamera blev du ofta uppvaktad och granskad innan labben återvände till sitt revir.

The hiking trail on Runde was guarded by several pairs of great skua that had their nests on either side of the trail. Above all, photographers seemed to annoy them, ordinary tourists seemed to be let past without further ado, but if you carried a larger camera you were often thoroughly examined before the skua returned to its territory.

Juli innebär bråda dagar för fisktärnorna som ska ordna mat till sina ungar som nu börjat växa till sig. Den här gäddan var kanske i största laget för det tog en bra stund innan tärnan kunde göra sig av med den.

July means days full of work for the common terns who still have to feed their young, and by now they eat alot! This pike was perhaps a bit to largest because it took a good while before the tern could get rid of it.

Det dåliga vädret gjorde att många insekter höll sig nära vattenytan. Svalor och några få silvertärnor jagade frenetiskt fram och tillbaka precis över vattenytan. Så fort molnen ersattes av sol fortsatte jakten i höjd med trädtopparna. Här är det en silvertärna som snappar insekter från ytan.

The bad weather meant that many insects stayed close to the water surface. Swallows and a few arctic terns chased frantically back and forth just above the water's surface. As soon as the clouds were replaced by sun, the hunt continued at the height of the treetops. Here it is an arctic tern that catches insects from the surface.