exploring nature

Stopover

The landscape depicted here is a stretch of coast somewhere in southern Sweden during late August. A number of migrating birds are on the move. Here, they are taking a pause to rest and feed among bushes with abundant insects.

Life and action

A bird ringer has caught a redstart in the net (to the right) and a willow warbler, while a chaffinch is headed into the net. A whinchat rests on a juniper bush with a red admiral butterfly in its beak, while a wryneck keeps watch from a branch and a flock of starlings swirls through the air.