Birding Therapy

02/11/2024

Doing some serious birding.

12/10/2024

We were ready at sunrise for October Big Day 2024, and what a day it turned out to be with a steady stream of geese: Bean Geese, White-fronted Geese, Greylag Geese, the odd Brant, and of course lots and lots of Barnacle Geese.

11/10/2024

Wonderful initiative as always. We'll be out birding Saturday morning 🫡

🌏 Across the world, Global Bird Weekend has begun
😃Here’s the SWAROVSKI OPTIK Birding Global Bird Weekend Women’s Team ready to join in too!

💡 LEARN about the birds around you on Friday

✅ COUNT the birds around you on Saturday for 12 October Big Day with eBird
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💚SHARE your love for nature & birds on Sunday

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😃 We are so excited for this weekend !
🐦 Let’s
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10/10/2024

Hämtade mitt nya pass idag och jag är helt imponerad av den nya designen 🤩 Den nya passdesign hyllar vårt lands fåglar med tretton fågelarter som pryder dess sidor ♥️

24/09/2024

I had a nice opportunity to go bird ringing during this migration season. Unfortunately, we didn't get large numbers of migrants and the ones we caught were fitted with rings and released.

17/09/2024

A Eurasian Hobby ( ). Note the slender long wings, face and body pattern and length of the tail. It's like a combination of a heavily patterned ( ) in the body of a common ( ).

16/09/2024

The elusive hepatic (red morph) female Common Cuckoo (Gök) that we saw at one of our walks last spring. It was the very last bird we saw just before calling it a morning - a very nice way to end the walk 🙂 These birds are on the way to Africa at the moment where they will spend the winter.

15/09/2024

A young Marsh Harrier (brun kärrhök) on its first migration, heading to Africa's Sahel region where it will spend the winter, and a Wizzair flight en route to Budapest share the sky over Falsterbo. I hope the harrier survives the danger-filled migration journey and returns to us next spring.

15/09/2024

This certainly qualifies as my "happy place" 🙂

13/09/2024

From the archives - Barnacle Geese / Vitkindad gås on migration.

13/09/2024

Malmö is a good place to mingle with good people, such as the attendees of The Conference, who joined me for a morning of birding around the city's Ribersborg coastline. I had some wonderful interactions and I hope I managed to rub off the hobby on a few of them 🙂

13/09/2024

🇺🇲 Welcome to the autumn 2024 edition of our Malmö birding walks! The new calendar is now up and I encourage you to check it out.

We noticed in spring 2024 that there were less birds during our birding walks compared to previous years, which has also been recorded elsewhere in Sweden. So, I decided to start the birding walks at 07:30 instead of 08 or 09 to see if that will make a difference in the number and variety of birds we see. I know it is a bit early but think of all the crisp fresh autumn air 🙂

Please share the link and let friends or family know about the nursing walks around Malmö.

www.birdingtherapy.com/calendar

🇸🇪 Välkomna till säsongens fågelvandringar in Malmö! Nya kalendern är nu upp på min hemsida där ni kan kolla på den.

Vi märkte förra våren att det har varit mindre fåglar under vandringarna jämfört med tidigare år, vilket även varit detsamma på andra håll i Sverige. Jag bestämde mig för att börja vandringarna kl 07:30 istället för 08 eller 09 för att se om det kommer att göra någon skillnad i antalet och variationen av fåglar vi ser. Jag vet att det är lite tidigt men tänk på all den fräscha höstluften 🙂

Sprid gärna länken och låt vänner eller familj veta om fågelvandringar runt Malmö.

www.birdingtherapy.com/calendar

12/09/2024

I had the pleasure of guiding Danish/German couple Bonni and Phillip around Malmö in early August. We went to Bunkeflostrand, Klagshamn and Tygelsjö. It was unusually quiet but we did end up recording 41 species, including a Black Swan (Svart svan).

27/08/2024

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You simply must come and see our next speaker – Hakim Abdi Birding Therapy. In the spirit of this year’s rewilding theme, Hakim will be leading a bird walk and discussion about what science tells us about being in nature—and particularly around birds—that not only helps relieve stress but fulfills a need that is in our genes.

Hakim Abdi (he/him) has been an avid birder for 30 years and is the founder of Birding Therapy, an initiative offering weekend birding walks for beginners in and around Malmö during the spring and autumn. Hakim moved to Sweden in 2012 to pursue a PhD and is currently a researcher at Lund University.

Through Birding Therapy, Hakim combines his passion for ornithology with a dedication to mental wellness, guiding participants in reconnecting with nature. His walks are designed to help beginners experience the calming and therapeutic benefits of birdwatching while learning about local bird species.

Go get your ticket now at www.theconference.se

12/06/2024

Vanliga svenska fåglar som koltrast (Common Blackbird) är inte bara bra att titta på utan att är de även bra sällskap på sommarkvällar.

12/06/2024

It's a family affair - Female Goldeneye (Knipa) with youngsters.