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Byparken
It isn't true that hungry students have hunted down basking ducks in the city park Byparken in their spring fervour, as rumours may have it. But, it is not unusual to see students throw themselves over the park's wild birds, and hold on to them tight. They ring the birds. Because of this, we know quite a lot about the birds in Byparken.
![The south side of Raunøya.](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/mas_21.jpg?itok=1rzpCAcc)
Raunøya
The sea birds discovered it long ago. Raunøya and the surrounding islands are the most beautiful places in Masfjorden.
![Aksnesholmane](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/kvam_56.jpg?itok=Y-S_NZ5r)
Aksnesholmane
There are especially many seabirds inwards along the fjords of western Norway. There are not many islets, either, so if the birds want to nest, it is not always easy to find good sites. At Aksnesholmane there is an impressive colony of gulls, and the locality has been protected since 1923.
![Aga farmyard](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/1/kvh_389-2x.jpg?itok=Exy3i-3z)
Aga
The grand farm Aga on the west side of Sørfjorden, came under protection in 1937, when the agricultural reform threatened to disperse the old clustered settlement. “Lagmannsstova”, named after the “lagmann” (law speaker) Sigurd Brynjulfsson, was already protected in 1924; one of the authentic profane wooden buildings from the Middle Ages still standing. All the same it is the farmyard itself that is the key cultural monument.
![Ullensvang](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/1/kvh_393-1.jpg?itok=d1meAEuf)
Ullensvang church
Ullensvang church, situated beside the vicarage, in idyllic surroundings on the headland just inside Lofthus municipality, is mentioned for the first time in written sources in 1309. At that time the present Gothic stone church must have been new. Judging by the style in the western portal and the eastern chancel windows, the church must have been built around 1300 or just before, probably by builders from Bergen influenced by the English Gothic style.
![Watercolour of fruit orchard and vicarage in Ullensvang](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/ull_22.jpg?itok=B8fktPUI)
Ullensvang vicarage
Well over 200 years ago, the priest Niels Hertzberg started making climate observations at the vicarage at Lofthus in Ullensvang. Hertzberg was active and ahead of his time in many fields, and had a great interest in natural science. Temperature and pressure were measured daily at the vicarage - often several times a day - with homemade instruments. The meteorological measurements started in December of 1797, and were carried out continuously until 1840, the year before he died.
![Hans Jacob Meyer's sculpture Mother and child from 1954, steeple base, Nonneseter monastery](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/190/kvh_258_meyer_tarnfoten_150.jpg?itok=yxLrWpYT)