Birds, animals, fruits, berries

PHOTOS WHEN TIME

From a young age, I´ve always been interested in the birds, animals, sea life, vegetation etc in any given place I lived. I thought I´d make a list of some of the things I see here in my area of Norway. I´ll try to add photos too.

Fruit, berries: Lingonberry, cloudberry, alpine strawberries, rhubarb, stinging nettles, foxglove, hyacynth sp, gooseberries, black currants, red currants, blueberries, blackberries, apples, plums, spearmints, wild roses (pink, white)...


Pink sea urchins, blue mollusks, bivalves, crabs, fish

Birds:

What I thought was a brown thrasher (one of the birds my dad and I would watch and feed when I was growing up) turned into being something called a  fieldfare /gråtrost. It´s very similar to a brown thrasher, but with a slightly different beak, tail and eyes. The colorings are similar, with the spotty blotchy browns, and dark greyish blacks on white.

Oystercatchers/ tjeld

comorants/skarv

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_birds_of_Norway



seagulls/måker or måser

grebes/ toppdykker

mallards/ stokkender

tufted ducks/ toppender

more ducks: Goldeneyes/kvinender, goosanders and other mergansers/laksand og småskrake
puffins/lundefugler; teist/ black guillemot (not sure which is english)

tits
finches
sparrows


geese/gjess

swans/svaner

multi-colored large grey crows, grackles, blackbirds.../kråker, sjærer...

redshank/rødstilk

(coots & moorhens) /sothøner og sivhøner

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Guide to Cloudberries - My Little Norway

frukt:

banan. appelsin. eple. ananas. fersken. vannmelon. bær. Plukke bær (pick berries).

Hvilken bær er ditt favoritt? (which berry is your favourite?) deilig! (delicious) søt (sweet)
modne ikke (not ripe) fjell (mountain)

hvitbringebær (white raspberries)
bringebær (raspberries)
ville jordbær (tiny wild apline strawberries)
jordbær (strawberry)
blåbær (blueberries)
moltebær (cloudberries)
kirskebær (cherries)
kråkebær (crowberries)
tyttebær (lingonberries)





Berry and mushroom picking  http://www.visitnorway.com/en/Product/?pid=48553.

.  http://www.nordicnibbler.com/2010/07/norwegian-strawberries.html .

http://www.jenthousandwords.com/2007/08/norway-berries.html

http://blog.fiftydegreesnorth.com/2011/01/berry_picking_norway/