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At Motala Ströms river mouth in Glan you can see seldom visited coastal meadows, and bird rich islets from the wide view of the hills.
Ljusfors lies in the northern part of Östgötaslätten, a large Swedish plain. It is surrounded by large amounts of forest. The coastal meadows are often visited by flocks of vigg, fiskmås, Gråtrut, havstrut, skrattmås, knipa, gräsand, knölsvan, sångsvan, sothöna, storskrake (some times up to 500) gråhäger and Storskarv in the open not frozen parts of the lake. Smaller amounts of rarer wintering waterfowl like Smådopping, småskrake, salskrake, skäggdopping, and kungsfiskare.
In the oak meadows tits, woodpeckers, finches winter along with common winter birds like domherre, sidensvans, Gråsiska, and bergfink. On the fields geese and swans can be found. grågås, kanadagås, and tajgasädgås have all been sighted.
During spring and autumn the coastal meadows are filled with large amounts of gulls, waders, passerine birds and terns. grönbena, rödbena, drillsnäppa, tofsvipa, brushane, enkelbeckasin, mindre strandpipare, and storspov are all observed although there are often not many wadingbirds.
During spring rains hundreds of fisktärna and skrattmås could be forced on the lake. Along with smaller amounts of Gråtrut, fiskmås, havstrut and silvertärna.
In the spring and summer large amounts of passerine birds can be heard in the forests. Although mostly common birds can be found, also rarer birds like mindre flugsnappare, mindre hackspett and stenknäck can be observed.
On the islands trastsångare, skrattmås (large colony), vigg, snatterand, vitkindad gås, grågås, rödbena and Storskarv likely breed. Common passerines on the coastal meadows are vinterhämpling (rare and only during the migration), hämpling, gulärla, steglits, ängspiplärka and sånglärka.
Many species of dabbling ducks can also be found during this season like Kricka, bläsand, snatterand, Skedand, and årta. Along the river forsärla and kungsfiskare breed, and strömstare can be found.
There are 2 parking spots and 2 nature reserves at the river mouth, one at each side of the river. There is a parking spot and trail at both reserves. At ljusfors naturreservat the trail goes up on a large hill which is perfect for viewing the area. Click on a P in the map for directions.
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