On the move

Now the house in Nittedal has new owners and we have moved up to the small farm Haukås. We don't have a rooster, but a goshawk that wakes us up early in the morning with its hawk cries, quite exotic.

Northern goshawk

And at night the fox walks around and calls, or more accurately, it's a mix between barking and screaming, not very pretty, but it's great to hear that there is life in the forest.

Redfox

We have managed to plant some apple trees, morels, plums and a number of berry bushes. This will benefit the insect life, as well as make the area attractive to our two and four-legged friends. But then there are the badgers, they seem to love digging up what we plant. But then we just have to fill it up again and smile. We have to put up with a little mischief from the badgers who give us so much joy at the forest shelter. One of the naughty kids has moved in under the storehouse with a short distance to the food dish, a little sly in other words.

Badger.

Many photographers are booked in for the fall and winter season, and with the activity that is happening now, things are looking really promising. The sparrowhawks are creating a lot of excitement these days. They dive for anything that moves.

Sparrowhawk

Lizard

As a smallholder farmer, you are responsible for everything big and small that moves on your property. The lizard in the picture lives in the woodshed, where it hunts spiders, flies and other insects. I find it incredibly fascinating, almost a bit exotic, to meet this lizard here on the farm.

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