Northern Lights (Aurora Borealis)

Northern Lights (Aurora Borealis)

What amazing luck - just a couple days after my trip to Brazil I experience this! What an amazing winter this could be.... Unfortunately I missed the beginning…


Gray Brocket (Mazama gouazoubira)

Gray Brocket (Mazama gouazoubira)

Astonishingly this gray brocket (Mazama gouazoubira) was not startled by my approach (a 4x4), so I was able to take a couple of shots before it decided to move…


Gray Brocket (Mazama gouazoubira)

Gray Brocket (Mazama gouazoubira)

Once again I was in direct eye contact with a gray brocket (Mazama gouazoubira) that regarded humans as no threat whatsoever. I was watching from the other…


Gray Brocket (Mazama gouazoubira)

Gray Brocket (Mazama gouazoubira)

A gray brocket (Mazama gouazoubira) focused on a a possible danger other than me. It's uncommon to see wild animals focusing on other (wild) elements. Usually…


Marsh Deer (Blastocerus dichotomus)

Marsh Deer (Blastocerus dichotomus)

The walk on the "marsh pier" - a long wooden trail raised more than 2 metres to provide dry footing during the wet season - came to an end way too soon. This…


Marsh Deer (Blastocerus dichotomus)

Marsh Deer (Blastocerus dichotomus)

Fazenda San Fransico is around 150 square kilometres large, and around 50% of it is left wild! Basically all the higher areas are used for farming, and the…


Northern Lights (Aurora Borealis)

Northern Lights (Aurora Borealis)

Northern lights (Aurora Borealis) over Oslo. It was a clear sky this evening, and as I was walking my dog away from my house I didn't notice anything in the…


Oslo night sky – waiting for the northern lights

Oslo night sky – waiting for the northern lights

Catching the Aurora Borealis is perhaps easy in the northern parts of Norway or in general around the Arctic Circle, but at 60 degrees north where Oslo resides…


Sneglebelg (Medicago lupulina)

Sneglebelg (Medicago lupulina)

Sneglebelg (Medicago lupulina) som vokser i store mengder syd i Sandbukta er nå nesten ferdige med å modne frø. De modne belgene er svarte som her.


Sneglebelg (Medicago lupulina)

Sneglebelg (Medicago lupulina)

Sneglebelg (Medicago lupulina) i stort antall i sydenden av Sandbukta, fra midten av Nordengs tomt og helt ned til sjøen, og på gårdsplassen til Knut sitt hus.…