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A wetland nature reserve with a good selection of breeding and staging birds.
Lake Brånsjön is a very shallow lake surrounded by grazed, wet meadows which are flooded during spring. The best time to visit is late April or early May, when up to 1000+ Taiga Bean Goose, 1000+ Common Teal and several hundreds of other ducks and waders stage in the area. Brånsjön is one of the very best breeding sites for wetland birds in north Sweden, with large populations of e g Northern Lapwing, and several pairs of Ruff, Common Crane and Northern Shoveler. Jack Snipe breeds and Little Gull are daily visitors. In the surroundings Nutcracker and Black Woodpecker is common, as well as Common Rosefinch.
Two birding towers are situated on the eastern part of the wetland area, and can be easily accessed through signed paths from the road between the village Vännäsby and Brån. Note that access is restricted in the nature reserve except on marked paths between April 15th and August 15th.