Counting birds for job is both fun and challenging. A relatively wide field of expertise is required, preparing work must be done in advance, and still relatively lot is - unfortunately - left for chance: how early have the Blackcaps arrived? Is there a motorcycle meeting nearby? Will it rain? How late do we get the necessary information, including maps? What should the focus be?
Today I counted birds at Espoo, Mankkaa. Weather was excellent: +8 degrees C, still and not a cloud in sight. Thrush Nightingales were really going at it when I arrived. The place: a nice, urban deciduous forest. Some relatively old trees, e.g. White Willows (Salix alba) and alders. Nice findings: two Little Spotted Woodpeckers - a really good species in this kind of work! - and a Hawfinch nest! Hawfinch nest was the first I had every found, although I have lived practically in the middle of a sparse Hawfinch colony. Nice! Left work pretty early. Happy with the day. Didn't take a single picture!
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