The ultimate slow TV:
https://www.svtplay.se/den-stora-algvandringen - The Great Moose Migration
Every spring the moose migrate. In doing so a whole lot of them have to cross the Ångerman river. You guys have rivers, so you know you can’t just cross a river anywhere. There are a handful of good places to do so, and so the moose tend to show up at these places. For a number of years now Swedish TV has set up a bunch of cameras, I think 38 this season, along the paths the moose tend to follow to cross this river, and so they broadcast live 24/7 for roughly twenty days in april, alternating between the cameras.
It has become very popular. People have it on in the background while doing something else, or you know just sitting with a beer or a coffee, looking at the soothing landscape. Occasionally the moose will show up and wade or swim across the river. Sometimes there will be a fox or a beaver, lynx, whatever, swans, ducks, geese, but mainly you will see the majestic moose. No great antlers this time of year, they’ve shed the old ones and are just starting to grow new ones that just look like pegs right now, but still.
We shoot about 40,000 moose during moose hunting season in the fall, more than the rest of the world combined.
We all like a good moose steak or a stew. But this time of year they are safe.
Very relaxing to watch. A lot of the times it is just the trees, or the river gently flowing by.
It’s far away from the cities and the highways. Just nature.
Right now there’s a golden eagle pecking at a carcass on a moor with a bunch of ravens looking on, and some of the bravest trying to join in.
In the bottom left corner thry are keeping track of how many moose have crossed the river (on camera) so far.
