August's End
After bumper success at Lohja dump at the start of the month, I returned to the site the following week. Gull numbers were still decent, and I instantly hit with yet another Caspian Gull on the gas dome. Caspian Gull - Juvenile. A fairly neat and obvious one, some moult apparent. Great start, so I carried on up to the waste warehouse. A good number of gulls here and another Caspian Gull made itself known. Caspian Gull - Juvenile - Bird number 2. A really nice structure on display. This was a great score! But this time around I really wanted to hit the countryside so I didn't stay too long. I mooched through the various sites, dipping any and all Pallid Harriers that had been reported. I pulled in to Pikkalanlahti to have a scan of the bay, and suddenly I was hearing something, something distantly familiar, what is that sound..hey that's a Sandwich Tern!! Sandwich Tern, though muck at home, is a decent rarity in Finland, though the country is currently experiencing a bit of a...