digg_url = 'http://digg.com/environment/Pic_series_of_starlings_feeding_their_young'; The starling couple that I photographed and blogged about in this post laid eggs in the birdhouse on our barn this year too. Here is some pictures that of the starlings feeding their young. Taken with Olympus E500 digital camera June 6th 2008. Click image for larger view. It seems like this young [...]

A couple of weeks ago I caught a 24 kg (53 lb) heavy cod on a bottom-longline. This is the biggest fish I have caught in years so I was very excited when I dragged the huge fish up from the depth of the ocean. The head was so big that it alone completely filled a [...]

Harstad is the fourth largest city here in Northern Norway and has a population of about 23,000. It is located on an island called Hinnøya and this island is the largest in Norway with it’s 2,204.7 km². Harstad is often called “the pearl of Vågsfjorden” as the city lays by a beautiful fjord called Vågsfjorden. [...]

Taken with Olympus E500 digital camera June 8th 2008. Click image for larger view. I love the short period when every dandelion plant seems to flower at the exact same time. A field full of yellow flowers on a sunny day is a beautiful sight so I could not resist taking out the camera to snap [...]

Taken with Olympus E500 digital camera May 31st 2008. Click image for larger view. In this picture I have photographed a wood anemone flower (anemone nemorosa) with some purple primula flowers as background. I loved the contrast with the sun shining on the white wood anemone flower and the the primula flowers in the shadow. These [...]

Taken with Olympus E500 digital camera May 16th 2008. Click image for larger view. In this picture I have photographed a sunset late in the evening (at 11 PM) from my bedroom window. I love this view and I never get tired of looking at it Notice all the snow in the mountains that you can [...]

Here are a couple of pictures of Herring Gulls (Larus argentatus) that I captured last weekend while collecting seagull eggs on some skerries on the coast in Northern Norway (a post about the egg collecting is coming in a few days so stay tuned). Herring gulls live here in large numbers and the sounds of the [...]

Taken with Olympus E500 digital camera May 17th 2008. Click image for larger view. Yesterday was our National Day (also known as the Norwegian Constitution Day) here in Norway and on that day it is typical for everyone to raise the Norwegian flag to celebrate our declaration of independence from the Swedes. In this picture you can [...]

Taken with Olympus E500 digital camera April 30th 2008. Click image for larger view. Small Tortoiseshell (Nymphalis urticae) butterflies has awaken from their winter hibernation and are flying around in the warm sunshine. Small Tortoiseshell is the first “day butterfly” that one can see here in Northern Norway in the spring, often on the first warm [...]

Taken with Olympus E500 digital camera April 29th 2008. Click image for larger view. At this time of the year we get to see some amazing sunsets here in Northern Norway. During the spring, before we get midnight sun, the sun is setting in the ocean in the horizon. In this picture I have zoomed in on [...]