Last weekend I went to Estonia with Jarkko Santaharju, Petteri Mäkelä and Teppo Lehtola. We participated in Estonian Bird Race that took place this year in two quite eastern provinces of Estonia (Jögevamaa and Tartumaa). We hardly knew any birding sites from there and none of us had ever visited this part of the country but still we managed to do it quite well. We had extremely nice birding day that included some nice species as Lesser Spotted Eagles, Middle Spotted Woodpeckers, Black Terns, lot of Nuthatches and Marsh Tits.. All nice species that are hard or even impossible to see in Finland. We also saw one Two-barred Crossbill that was maybe the rarest bird of the whole race. Altogether we found 131 species during 14 hours. Thanks to Jarkko, Petteri and Teppo for nice birding!
More photos from
Petteri's blog.
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| Lake Peipus at the sunrise. |
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| The final results. |
