An amazing winter season is soon to be completed. Good opportunities have been offered to photograph Golden eagles, various small birds and Red fox etc. in snowy and frosty landscape.
Now the spring season has started with Black grouse play which will goes on until the beginning of May. Over 30 Black grouse has so far arrived to the playground. The Whooper swans has begun to arrive and soon the Common cranes are also here to prepare this year's breeding.








The result of the mating pictures I took some months ago: the young male left the nest a couple of hours ago and this is the young females last minutes in the childhood home. I have spent a lot of time the last month on a steep mountain side photographing this two growing siblings, in cooperation with experts on wild Golden eagles.







One of the summer's photo project has been to document how a young golden eagle evolved over a few weeks before leaving the nest. The photographing was conducted in close consultation with experts at the Golden Eagle in Västerbotten and was not initiated until the young bird had grown up considerably in order not to endanger the nesting result. The youngster is mostly alone in the nest and the parents show up about once a day to leave food.
By now the nesting is completed. It has been interesting to follow the Golden eagle youngster growing up; it has now left the nest and already become sure of wings in its new element: airspace.
Eventually the whole prey is left to the youngster because it should learn to cut by itself. A recurring prey during the month of July has been viper. The parents has flown in with snakes without head but still freshly caught ,death spasms have continued for a long while in the nest. Viper seems to be food that is easy for the young bird to handle and quickly swallow. Picture: The female coming in with Viper.
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Now I have paddled ca 70km on two different water ways. In the smaller river -which had a lonely and beautiful running- there was “ relics” (old logs) from the log-driving epoch so I had to drag the canoe here and there. I have come close to birds and animals like for example several beavers, moose, whopper swans, goldeneyes and wild ducks
Raven at the pond in front of the eagle hide.
It looks great around the ospreys this summer and I’ll be photographing from late july through early august. A falcon pair is also nesting in the vicinity so it’ll be a possibility to get pictures of them both.
Before photographing the osprey and falcon it is very important to prepare the right way so you
don’t disturb their nesting. It’ll be just before the youngsters learn how to fly.
I will follow the photographer to the hide and then leave, after that the birds will return straight away. Interested?
This picture is from last summer.

Thomas Jensen tested for Canon : Canon 1DX and the lenses EF 600mm f/4L IS II USM and Ef 200mm f/2L IS USM from my eagle hide. This is one of the pictures. Foto: Thomas Jensen.

Sweden or the world's most famous Golden eagle? Now on National Geographic.
A picture of "Vindelörnen" photographed from my eagle hide by Lennart Hessel, is now on display at NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC Website

The young golden eagle in the nest. Perhaps it is the result of the mating eagles "Vindelörnen" and his female I photographed earlier this year. Photo: Bjarne Modig
Birds in Sweden/Fåglarna i Sverige.
I'm happy that two of my Golden eagle photos are represented in the newly published book.It's the result of 15 years work by the countries best bird experts.
But then it's also one of it's kind. No other country has so far presented such detailed information of it's birdfauna.
Still lots of snow. My guests have been on the capercaillie in the morning and in the Eagle hide in the afternoons. Surprisingly good results on eagle shooting. One of my guests have an incredible picture of the golden eagle as I hope will be published in Sweden.
Capercaillie have been more difficult, but we will not give up. This is a picture from last February, Golden eagle on a dead fox.