Day two was very nice day to watch migration. We spend five hours at cape Pösaspea and here are some numbers from the day. Fog made the migration sometimes very hard to watch, but same time it pushed some birds to the shore from the sea. Also one diver which was fist identified as a Great Northern Diver, but later we talked about it and we were not sure about the species. My opinion were pretty clear GND, but "pretty clear" is not enough when there is about 10 records of this species in the country.
Brent Goose 44 m
Barnacle Goose 515 m
Greater Scaup 146 m
Velvet Scoter 105 m
Common Scoter 429 m
Long-tailed Duck 1141 m
Smew 9 m
Red-breasted Merganser 779 m
Red-thorated Diver 332 m
Black-throated Diver 591
Diver SP. 231
Sparrow Hawk 53 m
Hen Harrier 2 m
Common Kestrel 1 m
Merlin 2 m
Peregrine Falcon 1 m
Dunlin 5 m
Purple Sandpiper 6 m
Twite 2 m
And here´s some pictures from the day.
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| Wigeons and Pintails. |
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| Small flock of migrating Divers. |
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| Hooded Crow watching the sea. |
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| Can you find the Mistle Thrush. |
After sea watch we spend time at the near by places to look some land irds, ut like Chiffchaffs and other mall birds around. Days are quite short, so not much to do during the evening hours, so we went to have Chinese food.
On 19th we had our last morning at the Pösaspea. Loads of Geese were migrating, but otherwise nothing really special. Here area numbers from that day.
Brent Goose 1142
Barnacle Goose 7738
Goose sp. 13243
Wigeon 2499
Velvet Scoter 1177
Oystercatcher 14
Purple Sandpiper 4
Parrot Crossbill 4
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| Small flock of Brent Geese. |
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| Male Parrot Crossbill. |
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| More Parrot Crossbills. |
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| Wigeons and Showelers. |
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| Very distant leucistic Brent Goose. |
We had to leave before 2 pm, cause our ferry back to Finland started at 5pm.
Great trip, great people, great birds. Hopefully I can have another trip to this beautiful country soon.
Thanks Jände for company!
-Tom
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