Our nesting couples are here now :-)

Written by Christer.
The new neighbours cat. The photos can come from today but also several days back, sunny photos are always nicer 🙂

It was warmish and cloudy this morning when we went out in the garden. Four cranes were walking in the field outside my garden, two left when they heard us but two stayed. The problem was that I only could photograph them through the branches on my catalpa tree 🙂 I did get a few reasonable good ones though.

I had forgotten a few things last time I was at the supermarket so I went there again this morning before our morning walk, I like to go there as early as possible so that very few other customers are there. They tend to annoy me when they start complaining when there’s only one cashier even though they already are second in line 🙂 🙂 🙂 Anyway I stopped by the lake to take a few photos of the cranes there and once again I was too lazy to get out of the car 🙂 🙂

The clouds blew away in the petty strong wind we’ve had since yesterday, a steady wind with few gusts  so it was quite nice to walk in the forest. I took a look at the small trees I’ve placed in the patio and so far they look really good, even if we would have temperatures below 0C (32F) at night the cottage itself will make sure those temperatures won’t reach the plants.

Besides this very little has happened here, the dogs and I had pancakes for dinner (well they had their own food first, I don’t think pancakes would be especially good to have as the only thing to eat 🙂 ). I think I can see flower buds on the apricot trees in the garden. Apricots are really hardy but they don’t change their habits just because they live in a harsher climate, they will flower at the same time as they do everywhere else they grow naturally 🙂 So if they start to flower soon I’ll need to cover the trees with some cloth so no frost takes away eventual fruit. Easy at the moment but one day they’ll be big trees 🙂 🙂

I’m not sure if I’ve missed all the Germans (and Dutch) because there’s only “normal” sized motorhomes by the lake. Could be that I’m a bit early because it looks like most cranes will come in April, yesterday there were 9300 cranes by the lake.

It is time for that last cup of tea and then watch some tv 🙂

Have a great day!

8 thoughts on “Our nesting couples are here now :-)”

  2. You have probably explained it before and I missed it, but why do cranes go to that particular lake, or do lakes in Sweden all tend to have thousands of cranes? Does it have enough food for them?

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    1. Hi cats working!

      I don’t think I have actually 🙂

      Back in the days they had a brewery for schnapps beside the castle and the only thing they grew here was potatoes. Harvesting machines weren’t that good back then so lots of potatoes were still in the ground when spring arrived and cranes just loved to eat them. Then they shut down the brewery and since the cranes had become very popular and important as tourist magnets they started to feed them barley instead 🙂 Without that extra feeding I doubt this lake had been that an important place for the cranes to rest at 🙂

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  3. Christer, I was wondering if monster kitten Sara and the neighbor’s cat will interact when she begins to venture outside more. The number of cranes is amazing but then so are all the RVs that are parked to view them. I was curious as to how close they could get, the visitors I meant.

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    1. Hi Beatrice!

      I have no idea to be honest, so far the monster hasn’t shown any signs to even leave the backside of the cottage 🙂

      Still no big ones there and I have no idea if they already have been there or if they are about to come 🙂
      Well when there are as most cranes around they can walks as close as 3 yards from the people but they do prefer bigger distances.

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