Roedeer are common and there are about ten moose present throughout the year. Unfortunately, hedgehogs, squirrels, and foxes have decreased drastically lately and are now rare, while hare and grouse are gone. Aspö is located along the Southern East-West flyway from Öland to the Falsterbo peninsula. When the winds are right, it is a good place to primarily watch ducks and geese together with small numbers of passing raptors. Barnacle geese and cranes dominate, where a record 3000 (approx.) cranes flew by in two hours on an early October-day in 2016.

Aspö is located in the Baltic Sea, in the Southeastern archipelago of Sweden, about half-an-hour’s ferry-ride South of Karlskrona, Blekinge. It is surrounded by other islands except in the Southern part, where there is open sea all the way to the European continent. Aspö is part of the UNESCO World Heritage Centre: The Naval Port of Karlskrona, established at the end of the 1600’s as the first ice-free Swedish naval port. Many historic military installations are therefore found on the island, inclusive of two museums, the oldest being a fort (‘Drottningskärs kastell’) established at the beginning of 1700’s. Besides the military, it is also much influenced by its agricultural and fisheries past, inter alia reducing the number of aspens that previously dominated the island, and from which it got the name. It has become a popular tourist destination in the summer, especially for the Poles, who mainly come here to bike, for which it is ideal, due to its topography and smallness (approx. 8 km²). The settlements are mainly found along the East and West coasts, creating a lot of space in-between for wildlife.