Halltorp hage - lilla lundstigen

Housing for many.

In spring the forest is alive with the chatter of starlings. Stop by trees with hollows and you might hear the young starlings calling their parents. Other birds that like to settle in tree hollows are the lesser spotted woodpecker and the wood pigeon. Bats also move into the hollows. But birds and bats also need food to survive. And there is plenty of it. Both the canopy and the flower-rich fields are full of insects, hunted by the birds by day and the bats by night!

Halltorp's flowers

In the spring, the coniferous forest and the deciduous meadows offer beautiful flowers. First come the white, blue and yellow syrups, spring onions and goldenrod. They are followed by St. Peter's keys, cowslip, toothwort and spring pea. And the stately guckuskon, which grows in the southern leafy meadow. In summer, you can see a variety of flowers on the grazed meadows, such as strawberry clover, snake's tongue and coastal fern. A little further inland, there are rosemary, bride's broom and the orchids spotted knapweed and St John's wort. If you go to the pasture at the eastern car park, you may see the top-heavy buttercup and another orchid - the gunpowder burnet

Turn off at the sign for Halltorps hage eight kilometres north of Glömminge on road 136. Just over a kilometre after the exit, you will come to the reserve car park.

In the nature reserve you may not:

• Damage or remove fixed natural objects or surface formations.
• Damage or remove growing trees or shrubs.
• Pick flowers.
• Damage or remove dead trees, stumps, bark or brushwood.
• Hunt, kill, capture or harm wild mammals, birds or their young.
• Collect insects.
• Remove or damage eggs or nests.
• Climb trees with nests.
• Deliberately disturbing wildlife.
• Being near a raptor's nest, den or burrow.
• Bringing a dog that is not on a leash.
• Damage or remove fencing devices (such as fences or hedges).
• Riding.
• Fishing.
• Driving a motorised vehicle, bicycle or other means of transport off designated roads or paths.
• Park in places other than designated parking areas.
• Build fires.
• Camping, caravanning or boating.
• Disturb the environment with loud noises such as music, video or radio.
• Use the area for competitions or exercises.

Source: Nature Management Unit Kalmar County Administrative Board