2024 Round Up
2024 has come to an end. Since September there have been some good birds on offer. A nearby Red-Breasted Goose gave good views at Haapajärvi in October. Always an excellent treat in late autumn. Red-Breasted Goose A Hoopoe present at Inkoo made for a good family twitching outing. As they so often do, the bird performed well once I refound it. Hoopoe - Inkoo The Tsuchinshan–ATLAS comet was also nice to see. A wintering Barred Warbler in Espoo was a real treat. I haven't seen Barred Warbler in ten years, when I saw several Juveniles on Jurmo island. Barred Warbler was once (before my time in Finland) a regular breeding species in Finland. It is somewhat sad these days to visit birding sites and see them depicted in old notice boards as breeding there. They are still regular as a migrant, and they often turn up in city parks etc, this is just the first one I bothered to go for. Barred Warbler It's easy imagine that the decline in Barred Warbler numbers here and elsewhere ...