Tuesday, July 12, 2011

Weekend in eastern Finland

Last weekend I made a tour to very eastern parts of Finland trying to find some nice specialities we have there. I knew it was too late for all nocturnal song birds but after having lived there 8 years I just want to visit those familiar sites at least once a summer. Weather was perfect all the weekend and some nice birds seen there included tens of singing Corncrakes, singing Lanceolated Warbler, 2 Booted Warblers, tens of Blyth's Reed Warblers and of course I went to forest as well to see some Bluetails.


This Corncrake was very aggressive for my mp3-player.


A Booted Warbler nest. Probably a cat had eaten
chicks from this nest just a day before I went there.



Nice views of Lake Pielinen, seen from the top of Koli hill.