So finally at the very end of the season I got one to sit still long enough. The dragonfly, Vagrant darter (Sympetrum vulgatum). In Swedish it’s “Tegelröd ängstrollslända” probably from its brick red color. Luckily there is a Swedish Dragonfly Society with an excellent web page so I could find out the species. Vagrant seems to be a bit of a misfit. After all it can fly! According to Google translate there is another meaning of darters but I won’t go there!

Don’t hold back, spread your wings. Ha de Gött!

The great spotted woodpecker (Dendrocopos major). As I was walking back to the car I heard it up in the trees. It sounded very annoyed with my presents but, even so I stopped to see what it was. With some carefully chosen words to myself for leaving the zoom lens in the car I stood there.

To my surprise it moved closer and closer down tree stem under much noise. As if it was yelling at me for being so close to the storage she had in the birch stem. I managed to get this picture with the 35mm macro lens.

There’s magic in the forest, ha de Gött!

One of the things I love with autumn is all the mushrooms that popps up among the falling leafs. You can pass the same spot one day and the next day they suddenly appear. A few days later they are gone again. They seem to like growing close together, even crowded. The variation in structure and colorfulness is comparable to the spring flowers.

The root system is quite complicated and symbiosis with the forest. A forest with fungus is a healthy forest. Up to 80% of the plants in the forest benefit in growth from the presens of fungi in the ground.

Ha de Gött!

Yellow hat fungus Monday macro, ha de Gött!