Slow kisses in the summer night

Scandinavian summers are short and there is a lot to photograph. This summer has been especially rainy. Moist weather is good news for snails and mushrooms which I was just about to experience on July 31st. Whilst photographing mushrooms in the nature reserve...

Bat flight photography

Batman begins! To photograph flying bats at nighttime has been a dream for me for a long time. Well, I guess that it is the ultimate dream and challenge of every keen wildlife photographer. You hardly see them, when they pass you by at nighttime, navigating with their...

Enjoy the silence

  I haven’t been blogging much recently. There has been little time because I have become a father in September last year. This is great joy but ‘time’ has decreased quite a lot. At the moment, there is simply no time for wildlife photography. I...

Young pygmy owl

One of the youngsters is waiting for the pygmy owl mother at the entrance of the nest hole. When the juveniles are still small, the owl mother spends much of the day inside the nest hole. As the youngsters grow bigger and become more space demanding, she will stay...

Patient mother owl

I have been photographing owls for a few years now and have even built some 250 nest boxes for owls. This year seems to be an excellent year for forest owls in southern Sweden. I found a record number of four breeding pairs of Pygmy Owls in Skåne, the southernmost...