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Lake Sommen is a large and deep lake in southeastern Östergötland. Around the lake there are large pine and decidous forests. Sommen hosts a large archipelago.
Lake Sommen is quite deep and most of the lake is ice-free all-winter. During this period large amounts of storskrake, knipa and skäggdopping winter in Sommen. Sometimes in the hundreds. Among these vigg, knölsvan, sångsvan, sothöna, and fiskmås can often be found. The lake is also home to quite a few rarer wintering birds like storlom, småskrake, kungsörn, sjöorre, svärta, kungsfiskare, smålom and skrattmås.
During the spring migration marine ducks can be found in the lake. At the same time smålom, and storlom, arrive at the lake. storlom breeds in the lake while smålom feeds in the lake and breeds in small neighbouring lakes. The rare vitnäbbad islom has been seen. Sommen archipelago hosts large colonies of fisktärna, fiskmås, skrattmås, Gråtrut, gråhäger and Storskarv. Among these some rare birds like silltrut, and silvertärna can be seen.
The large decidous forests around sommen especially on Torpön host plenty of quite rare birds like: mindre flugsnappare, mindre hackspett, nötkråka, and hornuggla. Around Sommen there is also old conifer forests around which support large populations of woodpeckers. göktyta, Gröngöling, spillkråka, mindre hackspett, tretåig hackspett (very rare), större hackspett and vitryggig hackspett (extinct in the area) have all been recorded. Other otherwise rare forrest birds found here are: järpe tjäder, orre (Rocks mosse), and nötkråka.
During the autumn birds can be seen migrating through the lake. Most common are the doves, finches, terns, and waders. At Rocks mosse orre and tjäder breed. At Visskvarn there are rapids where strömstare, and forsärla can be seen.
The area is quite vast, and has got many places to get a good view of the lake. The area is quite mountanous and a walk can be straining. Click on a P in the map to get directions to that point.
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