Flying Home For Christmas
It's been a busy Autumn with a few birds of note. One of my smaller patches, Suurpelto in Espoo, produced a flyover White-Backed Woodpecker which I was well impressed with. Combined with a male Grey-Headed Woodpecker in the reedbed for some reason brought my list of woodpeckers at this site to 6. White-Backed Woodpecker - a nice ID if I do say so myself The garden also produced the goods, with the first ever Lesser-Spotted Woodpecker visiting the feeders (they visit the garden daily, but we've never seen them take food before). This male has now come in regularly. Lesser-Spotted Woodpecker A male and female Grey-Headed Woodpecker are a daily feature. Greater Spotted Eagle has become a pretty regular winter feature in Kirkkonummi these days, surprisingly. I managed to catch up with the bird at Salfjarden where it showed very well for a number of birders present. Greater Spotted Eagle I also made sure to get my eyes on the first Hawk-Owl of the winter, a bird near Lautasaari,