Because of the public sector strike our daycare was a bit mess, so I asked if I can have evening shift at work, so I can watch my kids before Sanni ends her own day at work. We made plans for the trip to Lammassaari in Vanhankaupunginlahti and we were on our way surprisingly early. Normally with my kids it takes about two hours to get some clothes on...
Anyway we arrived to the place and first stop was in Pornaistenniemi. Lots of songbirds around and I found a flock where I had Spotted Flycatcher, Wood Warbler, Blackcap, Lesser Whitethroat and lots of Willow Warblers. Few Chiffchaffs were singing and first Sedge Warbler of the year was heard.
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| Spotted Flycatcher. |
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| Male Blackcap. |
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| Male Chaffinch. |
Soon we were on logpath to Lammassaari and we stopped in every lookout place. Kids had my old camera and they were playing and I tried to find some good birds.
On last stop before the island I was looking some Yellow Wagtails, Wood Sandpipers etc. when I heard a familiar call. Citrine Wagtail was flying above us (I was there with another birder) and we both yelled "look at that" or something like that. The bird landed quite near of us and we got nice photos of it. Adult male, with some marking on the yellow head. It seems that this species varies a bit how bright the yellow head is. Also my first Common Swift for the year from there!
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| Common Swift. |
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| Citrine Wagtail. |
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| A bit closer. |
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| Bird was looking us few times. |
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| Bird was constantly searching food. |
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| I think the most beautiful Wagtail in Finland. What do you think? |
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| Lucky shot of Sand Martin. |
Kids were happy with karelian pies and juice so we spend about 45 minutes at the place before we moved into Lammassaari.
In the island we visited the tower, but nothing really interesting from there. Somebody sent a message of migrating Spotted Eagle species, but I wasn´t able to see that from there. When we were walking back kids found some worms and I found pretty photogenic Wood Warbler and I spend ten minutes with it.
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| Starling from Lammassaari tower. |
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| Beautiful Wood Warbler. |
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| And again. |
Nothing new during the walk back, so we were soon back at the parking lot and inside the car. Pizza dinner after the trip! After food I dropped kids to Sanni and lef to work.
Amazing visit and so much fun with kids. Sometimes they are real pain in the ass, but most of the time we have great fun.
-Tom
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