Photos from Northern Norway: A photo blog

Taken with Olympus E500 digital camera on June 24th, 2007. Click image for larger view. This is some kind of sawfly (Symphyta) feeding on a fly. Please let me know if anyone know the species. I captured this the same day as I took the photos of two dance fly mating and eating. Check out [...]

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Taken with Olympus E500 digital camera on July 12th, 2007. Click image for larger view. I really liked the clouds on the blue sky today. It’s the way I remember the summer days in northern Norway from when I was a kid. Thankfully some things never change! Our family own the boatshed and it have [...]

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Taken with Olympus E500 digital camera on July 9th, 2007. Click image for larger view. Roseroot (Rosenrot in Norwegian) is a plant that lives in the colder climate areas like the Arctic and it’s growing throughout Norway. You can often find it growing straight out of cliff sides. In the recent years there have been [...]

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Taken with Olympus E500 digital camera on July 4th 2007. Click image for larger view. This is an Arctic Skua (Stercorarius parasiticus) also known as Parasitic Jaeger in North America. These birds are so fascinating to observe (I know I say this a lot but there is nothing more fascinating than the nature) because they [...]

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Was able to capture a dragonfly called Common Hawker (Aeshna juncea) when I was out walking in the forest. These insects are big (74 mm) and very camera shy so I had to try several times to get close enough. It was very entertaining to observe them hunt in the air hunting moths. They have [...]

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