Woke up at 8am. "Supposed to be outside right now." Iipu knocked on my window. Let him inside. Brewed some coffee and got prepared for some hardcore ice-fishing.
Our first target was the European Nuthatch. Finally we heard the bird. Pretty nice weather, too - sunny and calm. We continued to Natura to pick up the hand auger - only to see someone had taken it. Whereabouts unknown!
Drove to Ukonlahti to try to see the Twites, but only saw about 30 Snow Buntings. Then we went to Varaslampi to try to see how the ice was. Not too well. Drove home and went to Uni for lectures. That's it about ice fishing, I QUIT
At 4pm I decided to pick up Junnu and drive to try to Horned Larks again. Surprisingly, we had about 10 minutes at the rubbish dump before the gates closed, because the damn dump closes at 5pm. No Horned Larks (starting to see a pattern here). A large Common Buzzard, about 15 Mistle Thrushes, a couple dozen Meadow Pipits. Back to Ukonlahti, where we saw 4 Twites, about 130 Snow Buntings and sunk to horrible mud. Our shoes, they so dirty.
We drove to Karsikko and counted some birds: 154 Lesser Black-Backed Gulls, incl. 2-3 heuglini-type and several with a back that is a little paler, very dark slate grey, compared to nominate race. 1802 Black-Headed Gulls and 188 Herring Gulls.
The Whooper Swans were tame towards us, cautious towards dogs and very, very aggressive towards each other. Horrible creatures.
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