One cuckoo singing very nice and clear by the Vithatten mountain in the deep, wild part of Västerbotten. Some other birds can be heard in background. Stereo recording made on may 23 2009.

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Here is a recording from may 23 2009. It´s the lek of black grouses one early morning on the morass around the Vithatten mountain in Västerbotten, a wild and desolate place with very rich birdlife.

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I made this recording july 10 2008, one nice day at the sea when I was out with my kayak. There were some small islands just outside the beach where I put my recording gear and let it roll for an hour. This is the result, a very nice sound that I think most people can relate to. Those harmonic summerdays at the sea…

Visited a small lake just north of Skellefteå in the morning. I placed my microphones on stands in the water’s edge and let it roll. Personally, I held myself invisible and awaiting developments. In addition to the breeding pair of red-throated divers with two small chicks came also three other loons up on a temporary visit. At times it was busy with the lonns in short flights forward and back along the lake.

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They say that spring will come this weekend with mild southern winds. I took the opportunity to suck out the last of the winter and slept the night which was under the sky out in the woods. I guess the temperature crept least to minus ten to fifteen Celsius.

Early in the evening I heard an owl.

Everything becomes difficult when to play outdoor through cold winter nights. Collect fir twigs to bed in the snow, dual sleeping mat, uncouth dress, gather firewood to have the evening and tomorrow morning, stamp up a cozy seat and dig down to the ground for the fire so it does not suddenly fall together by the snow cover and goes out, thaw water, keep miscellaneous batteries warm, take off ones outer clothes in the biting cold when it is time for the sleeping bag, take on the stiff frozen outer clothes again when to get up … etc..

Life is more comfortable at home.

A dozen male black grouses initiated early in the morning a half-hearted fight, and was soon off to other.

On the way home I stopped at the raindeer paddock, contained now a hundred reindeers. Several ravens apparently saw opportunity in this and created together with the reindeer an interesting sound scenery.

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Tracks from the morning fight by the black grouses.