Thread:Spockmum/@comment-38946466-20191012101236/@comment-37443679-20191013171359

In summer it's mostly hares, red squirrels, foxes and moose plus a lot of birds and grazing horses, sheep and cows. More occasionally, lynx, and once in a while, wolves and bears. You have to go up 300 metres in the nearby national park (about 5-6 km to the border) and then you may be lucky enough to see the reindeer. There are also wolverines up there.

In winter, the moose migrate down into the forest, and a lot of the birds migrate south. The domestic animals are taken down to spend the winter in the barns. Everyone else has to manage in the snow from November to April. Temperatures down to - 20C. Today it was - 2C when we got up, and there is a sprinkling of snow. The hares get white winter coats, very cute.

View from the veranda in November: