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We were at Lake Tkern last weekend. The weather forecast was dreadful but we had some luck and I took an awful lot of pictures. This one's from the far south of Sweden at Easter though.

Sunshine and snow at last. Took some pictures from the windows today and we're off on a trip tomorrow. In the meantime 2 more pictures from the spring/early summer.

The furthest north we've ever seen a Red Kite was from the car on the way home from our holiday in Vrmland this summer. Lake Tkern is a bit further south and I've seen one there before. But this time there were three of them. They're spreading northwards and not all that slowly. A success story...

During our visit to Skne in the south of Sweden at Easter we went to Flyinge to photograph White Storks. I'll be posting some of my stork photos later but while we were there a sub-adult White-tailed Eagle flew overhead and there were also quite a few Red Kites around.

Had a great trip to Lake Tkern and took lots of pictures.

Here are the first 2 pictures from our Easter trip.

Definitely the last of these When we were trying to photograph the Bitterns a man who was observing dragonflies came along. He was astonished and very skeptical when we said that we had seen Bitterns in flight several times. That just didn't happen he implied. After about 10 minutes a Bittern...

During this year's trip to Skne I took the first Red Kite pictures I am happy with.

This wooded patch of full grown Beech seems to attract Kites during the Winter season. Here is one of them.

I wish I had fired the shutter 1/10 s earlier to nail the focus... MF is hard work. Still I think he/she deserves to be shared.

A second picture of same Kite.

Yesterday was a good day, sun compensated for the freezing temperature and NE wind. I spotted 8 species of raptors including Peregrine Falcon(!) as well as the first Cranesfor the season. Sharing a decent picture of a Red Kite finishing what is left of a mole.

Gliding in search for food