Birding/ Bird watching in Bergslagen with Nordic Safari - Capercaillie Lek



Thursday 25th of April 2019 and I wake up with my vibrating phone next to me. I potter about in the tent and at 03:50 I can hear one Capercaillie male start the lekking. I open the tent and I put out my ZOOM H5 Handy recorder.

Listen to the Western Capercaillie

Remarks from the Recordist

Recorded with my ZOOM H5 Handy recorder. High pass filter applied in Audacity

Spending the night in a tent on the lekking area and this male started at 03:50 and it seems like he gave up at 04:30. I could never hear any female.

I spotted one male in a tree about 20 meters from the tent in the morning. When I left I spotted a female next to the road that flew away.


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The bird turned silent at 4 thirty and I opened my tent at 6 thirty and I started to prepare to leave the tent. I´m busy for 30 minutes before I discover one male Capercaillie sitting in a tree about 20 meters away from the tent opening. I had sent an SMS to my guide that there was no action and that he could come to pick me up at 8 o´clock.

Birding/ Bird watching in Bergslagen with Nordic Safari - Capercaillie Lek
Looking out the tent early morning

Birding/ Bird watching in Bergslagen with Nordic Safari - Capercaillie Lek
One hiding in the tree

We drive back to Ramnäs Hotell & Konferens where I have breakfast before having a shower. Lunch at 1 o´clock and then we will get back out in the nature to look for adventures. We had our lunch with 50 pensioners that had been on a day trip to Brandområdet and my Guide had guided them.

We drove north towards the hide where I will stay again, my last night in tent and I could not help but feeling very happy about it. Anyway, we´re driving towards Sångarvägen (Singer Road) a small gravel road along two lakes, Lilla Sångaren and Stora Sångaren. (Little and Big Lake Sångaren) where we will look for the Black-throated Loon and then we will drive to Lake Klotet to look for the Red-throated Loon

Osprey, Western Osprey, Pandion haliaetus, Sea Hawk, River Hawk, Fish Hawk, Fiskgjuse
Osprey nest

Osprey, Western Osprey, Pandion haliaetus, Sea Hawk, River Hawk, Fish Hawk, Fiskgjuse
Osprey nest

We see the Black-throated Loon at Sångarvägen but way too far away for any pictures. We also see an Osprey nest and the Osprey is chasing food above us. We see the Red-throated Loon at Lake Klotet but the sun is shining against us so we decided to come back tomorrow morning when we have the sun in the back.

We continue throw the forest and I cannot believe my luck. I moose standing next to the road. We stop and the moose is about to run away. My Guide do the sound again and the moose stops.

I leave the car and the moose is about to run away. I do the sound and she stops to look at me. We discover that this beauty have 2 beautiful babies from last year with her.

Birding/ Bird watching in Bergslagen with Nordic Safari
Driving through the forest

Birding/ Bird watching in Bergslagen with Nordic Safari - Moose
Moose through the window

Birding/ Bird watching in Bergslagen with Nordic Safari - Moose
Moose through the window

Birding/ Bird watching in Bergslagen with Nordic Safari - Moose
She stops when we do the sound

Birding/ Bird watching in Bergslagen with Nordic Safari - Moose
I leave the car as I´m not happy with the picture through the window And I see two babies from last year

Birding/ Bird watching in Bergslagen with Nordic Safari - Moose
Two babies from last year

Birding/ Bird watching in Bergslagen with Nordic Safari - Moose
Two babies from last year

Birding/ Bird watching in Bergslagen with Nordic Safari - Moose
Mama moose with the babies

Birding/ Bird watching in Bergslagen with Nordic Safari - Moose
Mama moose with the babies

Birding/ Bird watching in Bergslagen with Nordic Safari - Beaver house
Beaver house

Birding/ Bird watching in Bergslagen with Nordic Safari - Beaver house
Beaver house

Birding/ Bird watching in Bergslagen with Nordic Safari - Beaver house
Beaver house

Birding/ Bird watching in Bergslagen with Nordic Safari - Beaver
Beaver have cut the tree

We leave the moose and we´re soon spotting a beaver home. Well, here is beaver homes everywhere. But this home had one of the red road markers as build material.

They use red sticks along the roads so they can see where the road is during the winter when everything is covered in snow.

It is 7 o´clock when I´m installed in the tent hide. I hear one of the Capercaillies arriving to the lekking area around 10 o´clock n the evening. I try to make a sound recording, but it failed. But I was full of hope for tomorrow morning when I went to sleep with my alarm set to go off at 04:00. Click HERE to find out if I see any Capercaillie lek tomorrow morning.





       
                  
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