Nature  
  

Från Stockhpolms skärgård
As we were born in the countryside, and spent our youth there, we both find joy in nature! We both like bird watching and the study of Botany, which give us many moments of pleasure at home and on travels.

The artist's water colours, paper and pens together with magnifying-glass, binoculars, small ones as well as a tube, will always alert a curious attendant at the Customs. The tripod for the big and heavy tube and the artist's palette knife are nowadays travelling in the luggage department of the airplane.

Our children were always together with us, and now when they are grown up they get a lot of pleasure from what they learned as kids.

The links lead to many interesting places in the virtual nature, then you can go out in the real one using your newly gained knowledge! Click on the pictures!

Bild från APOD Spillkråka Fläderblom och humlebagge Vår tomtgroda
Astronomy Ornithology Botany Naturally

Astronomy
About APOD - a new picture of the sky everyday. Fabulous pictures!
Revontulet - Aurora Borealis - Jouni Jussila - Nordic Auroras (ditto!)

Webcam from Jokkmokk in north Sweden, at the Polar circle -- chance to see Auroras!
Northern Light Aurora Live at Nature of Jokkmokk "PORJUS"
take a look in the photo albums and travelogues, too!

Grönbena
Wood sandpiper, Hemavan
Botany
Den virtuella floran - in several languages, lots of pictures and plant descriptions
Internet Directory for Botany - Alphabetical List

The Swedish Museum of Natural History

Sollentuna's Flora.
Link to Pär's pages about it


Betonica officinalis -- Photo: M.Dahlin copyright


 
"Naturally"

Mattias Klum
KLUM PHOTOGRAPHY - you may have seen his photos in the National Geographic Society Magazine

Society of Nature Photographers in Sweden - Naturfotograferna, Sweden - a very beautiful and informative web page, in pictures, about the Nature in Sweden.

Breeds of Livestock from many countries
OSU's Breeds of Livestock by World Region

Breeds of Livestock - this is our Nordic cow, a friendly and sweet little cow

Species Gateway
Species Gateway/Artportalen - in English and Swedish - report systems for birds, flowers, butterflies and moths.

Conservation of Nature
WWF - The Conservation Organization - International site

On-line
For buying books etc. about nature and the environment.
Naturbokhandeln - in Swedish but with many international books and guides about bird watching, binoculars, rucksacks, etc!

Marine and wildlife art for sale and licensing - see Freebies and Fun Stuff (cute little froggies on virtual postcards - free!)
Whales and Dolphins - The Oceania Project

A daily click
Save an old growth forest by A Click for the Forest!

Webcam LIVE from Africa -- The best of them!
Live streaming video of African animals from Pete's Pond in Botswana - National Geographic Magazine- only you, the animals and the crew at the camera are there! That is very nice! No Safari tourist with flashing cameras are bursting in on roaring vehicles breaking the peace!

But once in a while 30-40 elephants will suddenly decide that they want to drink and have a bath, all at the same time, and then you will understand the true joy of splashing around in a pool! EVERYBODY in the water! :-)

Perhaps you are lucky to be at the computer when a leopard arrives to drink ...!

On YouTube there are hundreds of short videos you can look at, taken from the webcam at Pete's Pond! You need RealPlay to see the LIVE webcam,but it is FREE to download! Small dramas sometimes are at stage, for example when one elephant bull was in a very bad mood, and chased the peaceful Waterbucks!


Picture taken from the computer screen on a warm and peaceful day, 10th of September 2007. A frog's view of the animals on the pond side. Photo angle from the new shore cam on the east side of the pond

and in January, after much raining, the grass is high, there are lots of flowers, many kind of birds are nesting in the trees, and the black and silvery wildebeests' calves arrive with their beige calves.
The Pond Paradise!

Mordet i liljekonvaljeskogen
The Lily-of-the-Valley Murder!
© Margareta Dahlin


Pingvin
with kind permission from ©ArtGame