Gotta Cachi Haul!
On Friday, with a reasonably noteworthy uptick in Pallid Harrier reports starting, I decided on conducting a trawl though Siuntio and Inkoo in the hopes of digging some harriers out. As I used to do in the past I decided to start out at Lohja dump, just on the off chance. Lohja has been very hit and miss in recent years. When I first started birding it 12 years ago it was ok. You got a small number of gulls and I managed to dig out the odd Caspian Gull from time to time. As many dumps have started to do, they build a covered warehouse for food waste storage, and numbers of birds dropped off. Then that warehouse burned down (it wasn't me, I swear), and for a couple of years they returned to dumping food waste in the open, and the number of gulls skyrocketed. Several Caspian Gulls a season became normal. They rebuilt the warehouse eventually, and things dwindled off again. I managed one juv Caspian there last year, which stayed for all of 15 minutes. So I wasn't ho...