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The Canarias: Part I
On March 5th I set off to meet up with my dad at Tenerife’s southern airport. We had rented a car that we could drop off at Fuerteventura airport 11 days later. During that time we were scheduled to spend 3 nights on Te…
Argentina part IV: The final push
back to safety at Estancia la angostura. Reaching the Estancia after surviving the rough gravel roads was such a relief, knowing my little Chevy and I survived without any punctures I met up with Maria and her husband r…
Argentina part III: The Harvest
After leaving the Swedish birding group the I had spent the first 12 days of the trip traveling with, it was now time to turn up the effort level and go all in to get my target species on my own. The original plan was t…
Argentina part II: Patagonia
Nov 15th to Dec 3rd – El Calafate – El Chaltén – La Angostura – Meseta Strobel – La Angostura – El Calafate – Meseta Strobel – La Angostura – Rio Gallegos – Cabo Virgenes – Rio Gallegos – El Calafate We arrived at lunch…
Argentina part I: The Pampas
Nov 8th to 15th – From Buenos Aires to Trelew. I’d been saving money since January and now it was time for the highlight of the year – a 27 days long journey to an area as far from Sweden as I’ve ever been before: Argen…
September in Sweden
Last weekend I visited my dad in Helsingborg in Southern Sweden to go out birding. September is usually a good time of the year to get out on the west coast, so we started Saturday heading north towards the Bay of Båsta…
Red-throated Loons in Central Sweden
Red-throated Loon is one of those birds I’ve seen quite a lot of times, but never really managed to get a good picture of. Every time I’ve been able to get close to a Red-throated Loon it’s always been overcast and a li…
May in Spain III: Around Daimiel
One week had passed as me and my Dad started our journey through central Spain. We left Sebulcór and headed south through Madrid at mid-day to reach Daimiel 3 hours later. At first sight, the area didn’t look that birdy…
May in Spain II: Hoces del Río Duratón
After the successful stay in the Gredos mountains we headed northeast towards a large national park called Hoces del Río Duratón Natural Park. Its name refers to the Duratón River. ”Las Hoces” refers to the series of 10…
May in Spain I: Sierra de Gredos
On the 1st of May 2018 I flew down to meet up with my dad at Málaga Airport. From there we drove back north towards Madrid and Sierra de Gredos, which is located about 90 mins west of Madrid in Castilla y León. I knew w…
Early spring in Morocco
From the 3rd to the 10th of March I visited Morocco with my like-minded friend Ingo Waschkies in search of North African desert and mountain birds. I started from Stockholm and got to Marrakesh via the non-stop Norwegia…
Arctic Northern Europe revisited
IVALO – INARI – KAAMANEN – KARIGASNIEMI – VARDØ – HAMNINGBERG – KARIGASNIEMI – IVALO May 25th – June 4th. The northeastern part of the Scandinavian peninsula stretches way east of Sweden and meets the Russian border onl…
Estonia, May 5th to 8th 2017
In early May me and my dad set off for an extended weekend in Estonia in the Baltic Sea coast. Estonia was a part of Soviet but has since 1991 turned into a well-organized developing country with quite a lot of Swedish …
A spring trip to Extremadura
I spent the latter half of March in Southwestern and Western Spain, birding the Extremaduran steppes and Andalucian coast with my dad. I total we saw 171 species in 13 days. Some of all those birds are featured in my Sp…
Close range winter encounters
At lake Råstasjön, close to where I live, a lot of birds rely on being fed by the locals to survive. The lake is known for its wintering population of 60-80 Grey Herons and the nationally famous resident Water Rail(s, t…
Eastern Vagrants
During the past few weeks, Scandinavia has seen loads of Asian species on migration due to heavy easterly winds from Asia. I took the ferry to Gotland last weeked and spent last Saturday on Öland to twitch two new speci…
Gotland in August
Between August 20th and 23rd I visited Gotland together with Edwin Sahlin to photograph shorebirds migrating south. We had exceptionally high numbers of Little Stints and Curlew Sandpipers during the drip, providing sev…
Broad-billed Sandpipers on migration
Last Saturday I was out in a wetland looking for Broad-billed Sandpipers on their way to northern Scandinavia. After several hours I was able to locate them hiding in the wettest areas with stray grass, much like their …
Swedish spring treats
Lately I’ve been really busy birding and working. Since I got home on May 1st, I’ve been attending three major workshops in Copenhagen, Stockholm and Munich, plus trying to catch up with an overloaded mail box. Therefor…
Pictures from California
Just got home from California where I spent 15 days traveling 3380 km around the state. Unfortunately I don’t really have the time to write a trip report at the moment but I’ve started to upload images for the trip here.
California part I: The Bay Area and Monterey Bay
Last Friday I arrived at Oakland Airport, picked up my rental car and started a 15 day road trip which will take me to L.A. on April 24th, via Yosemite, Morro Bay, Santa Ynez and Santa Barbara. I’m not really sure wheth…
Spring treats in Stockholm’s City Park ”Ekoparken”.
Today I set off to a place nearby where many people like to spend their Sunday walking. It also happens to be a city park with several small wetlands and quite large wooden areas with open fields. This time of the year,…
A week in southern Spain
Last week I visited my dad in San Pedro, Andalucía, but also spent nearly 2 000 km on the road visiting different birding hotspots. It was a nice but also a bit frustrating week, since the Spaniards have a somewhat tric…
Kingfisher frenzy
The cold weather still has a firm grip around Stockholm and many birds are fighting to survive. One of the most attractive species, the Common Kingfisher, is very sensitive to cold weather and often freeze to death. As …
Cold temperatures, warm colors.
Spent some hours shooting waterfowl around home in minus 10-15 centigrade and clear skies with warm winter sunlight today. Unfortunately the spots I visited wasn’t as good as I hoped, as I missed out on typical species …
Winter at Torö
I made some efforts to do some landscape photography today as the birding was a bit slow.
A crystal clear winter day south of Stockholm
Yesterday I spent a few hours in the area south of Stockholm in -10 degrees centigrade shooting a flock of Bearded Reedlings and a Northern Hawk Owl. The owl is a irregular visitor to southern Sweden, occurring only som…
A new look for danielpettersson.com
Dear visitor, As you may have noticed, danielpettersson.com has changed appearance. The new, wordpress-based platform is now adapting to mobile devices through a responsive design setup. Other highlights are the new blo…