Orsa

This morning we head off early to the Orsa Rovdjurspark, Europe’s largest predator park. On the park’s 325,000 m2, bears, tigers, lynxes, wolves and other animals are supposed not just to be shut in but to have really a lot of space. As a visitor it can apparently quite possibly happen that you don’t see a single one of the animals, since they have lots of space and accordingly lots of places to hide.

Once there, we find yet again that we are almost the only visitors. The enclosures are really huge. But unfortunately everything is also fenced in twice, so that no curious child’s hand goes missing… That makes it somewhat difficult to photograph the animals. Except for the wolf we actually see all the animals that there are to see in the park.

In this picture a bear is hiding… Who can find it?

There are also a few baby bears. They play together and climb up smaller trees.

This lynx still seems to be a little sleepy, after all they are nocturnal and it is only morning now.

There are also a few of Scandinavia’s birds of prey to see:

This here is another predator of northern Europe, the wolverine, or in German, somewhat unattractively, the Vielfrass. It belongs to the weasel family and grows to about 80cm long and weighs 32kg at most. Despite these modest dimensions, it feeds on reindeer, moose and lynx, among other things.

After this visit to the park, we go out in the evening to watch a few free animals. Right in front of our accommodation there is a bird-watching jetty. There we see a great many geese with their young, as well as a few special birds (among them the “Tofsvipa”) that can be seen there.