Last weekend we had very pleasant visit to our summerhouse in Loviisa. That place is so near our home (less than hour from door to door), so we have visited there quite a lot lately.
This weekend was mostly enjoying the weather, food and time with the family. I always keep my eyes open for birds and other flying creatures like dragonflies and butterflies, but this time nothing special around.
Small colony of Little Gulls near our beach and daily some birds passed our yard, but no pictures this time.. Those bastards are quick and they always surprised me when I saw them. Anyway around 15 birds in the area.
Garden Warblers were still singing, Pied Flycatcher had busy time with chicks and male carried food constantly. Also some Spotted Flycatchers around with two singing Rose finches and Black Woodpecker.
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| Passing Grey Heron. |
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| One of three local male Pied Flycatchers from our backyard. |
From the dragonflies Black-tailed Skimmer were very common and I had tens of those during the weekend. Also some Four-spotted Chasers and many Variable Damselflies around. I also had one or two bigger ones, but no ID for those.
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| Male Black-tailed Skimmer, orthetrum cancellatum. |
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| Female Black-tailed Skimmer. |
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| Female Four-spotted Chaser, libellula quadrimaculata. |
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| Variable Damselfl, coenagrion pulchellum. couple mating. |
Butterflies were totally gone and I had probably one Small Tortoiseshell, one large skipper and and one moth from the light.
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| Small Clouded Brindle, apamea unanimis. |
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| Large Skipper, ochlodes sylvanus. |
Finally this fun little bug, which I found from my baby boys diaper!
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| Snakefly species, raphidioptera sp. |
What a great weekend and from Loviisa we went back home for one night and then continued to the next summerhouse, but more of that later.
-Tom
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