Monday, September 24, 2012

Sky on fire


On the way to a cave for bat night. This one was the only good thing which resulted in that trip. While driving there, it started raining, then a tunnel was closed and we had to find an alternate round to get to our destination so we came too late to get a seat inside for the talk which was horribly boring (which scientist nowadays shows slides and graphs from 20 years ago for more than 2 hours? And that for an audience including children. Are things so different in biology?). Finally in the cave, we saw 2 (!!!) bats and were told that normally there were so many that you'd be afraid they bump into you but due to the rain they apparently didn't come. Unfortunately this wasn't really worth the 2 hours drive and 2 hours boring talk ... oh well, we wouldn't have known if we hadn't tried.

Thursday, September 20, 2012

Styggmann

I think this was a hike to the mountain Styggmann in the Skrimfjell close to Kongsberg (it's been a while so I am not completely sure anymore). The only trouble was going in November ... there wasn't that much snow but water had been running down the hiking path and was frozen so we would have been better off with ice skates or at least some spikes on the shoes. I guess it's a nice hike in summer though ;). Due to the extreme conditions we also didn't make it to the top.






Tuesday, September 18, 2012

New project



Field salad for the winter ... so looking forward to it :)

Sunday, September 16, 2012

Summer visitor

Although there are no frogs spawning in our pond, we always have a few staying around in summer.
This one came out for a photo shooting.




Normally the best you get is a picture of lots of plants where you have to search for the head.
The picture is from last year but the frog might possibly be the same.