Bird trips to Finland-Estonia (March 2007, June 2008, December 2012) Photo Gallery by Non-stop Bird Photography at pbase.com

Bird trips to Finland-Estonia (March 2007, June 2008, December 2012)

I spent a week-end in Finland in March 2007 to see and photograph the Azure Tit, which is a rare winter vagrant there. I returned to Finland in June the next year to experience Brown Bear photographing from a hide (see www.wildbrownbear.fi). I also had the opportunity during that second trip to "twitch" a siberian vagrant - a Swinhoe's Snipe - which was only the second individual ever recorded in the Western Palearctic (WP). In December 2012, I returned for a third trip to Finland-Estonia to see and photograph a Fox Sparrow. This rare nearctic vagrant to the WP was initially found in Estonia where it stayed for 2 weeks but then it moved on to be relocated a few days later in Finland where it spent the rest of the winter. This gallery has 59 images depicting 11 bird species.

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Eurasian Brown Bear (Ursus arctos)(ssp. arctos)(sub-adult)_Lentiira, Vartius (Finland)	Eurasian Brown Bear (Ursus arctos)(ssp. arctos)(adult)_Lentiira, Vartius (Finland)	Eurasian Brown Bear (Ursus arctos)(ssp. arctos)(sub-adult)_Lentiira, Vartius (Finland)	Eurasian Brown Bear (Ursus arctos)(ssp. arctos)(adult)_Lentiira, Vartius (Finland)
Eurasian Brown Bear (Ursus arctos)(ssp. arctos)(adult)_Lentiira, Vartius (Finland)	Eurasian Brown Bear (Ursus arctos)(ssp. arctos)(adult)_Lentiira, Vartius (Finland)	Eurasian Brown Bear (Ursus arctos)(ssp. arctos)(adult)_Lentiira, Vartius (Finland)	Eurasian Brown Bear (Ursus arctos)(ssp. arctos)(adult)_Lentiira, Vartius (Finland)
Eurasian Brown Bear (Ursus arctos)(ssp. arctos)(adult)_Lentiira, Vartius (Finland)	Reindeer (Rangifer tarandus)_Vartius (Finland)	Snowy road close to Uurainen (Finland)	Whooper Swan (Cygnus cygnus)_Uurainen (Finland)
Capercaillie (Tetrao urogallus)(male)_Espoo (Finland)	Capercaillie (Tetrao urogallus)(male)_Espoo (Finland)	Capercaillie (Tetrao urogallus)(male)_Espoo (Finland)	Capercaillie (Tetrao urogallus)(male)_Espoo (Finland)
Green Sandpiper (Tringa ochropus)_Lentiira, Vartius (Finland)	Green Sandpiper (Tringa ochropus)_Lentiira, Vartius (Finland)	Swinhoe's Snipe (Gallinago megala)_Värtsilä, Tohmajärvi (Finland)	Swinhoe's Snipe (Gallinago megala)_Värtsilä, Tohmajärvi (Finland)
Swinhoe's Snipe (Gallinago megala)_Värtsilä, Tohmajärvi (Finland)	Swinhoe's Snipe (Gallinago megala)_Värtsilä, Tohmajärvi (Finland)	Swinhoe's Snipe (Gallinago megala)_Värtsilä, Tohmajärvi (Finland)	Swinhoe's Snipe (Gallinago megala)_Värtsilä, Tohmajärvi (Finland)
Swinhoe's Snipe (Gallinago megala)_Värtsilä, Tohmajärvi (Finland)	Great Grey Owl (Strix nebulosa)(adult with young)_near Oulu (Finland)	Azure Tit (Cyanistes cyanus)_Uurainen (Finland)	Azure Tit (Cyanistes cyanus)_Uurainen (Finland)
Azure Tit (Cyanistes cyanus)_Uurainen (Finland)	Azure Tit (Cyanistes cyanus)_Uurainen (Finland)	Siberian Jay (Perisoreus infaustus)_near Kuusamo (Finland)	Siberian Jay (Perisoreus infaustus)_near Kuusamo (Finland)
Siberian Jay (Perisoreus infaustus)_near Kuusamo (Finland)	Siberian Jay (Perisoreus infaustus)_near Kuusamo (Finland)	Siberian Jay (Perisoreus infaustus)_near Kuusamo (Finland)	Siberian Jay (Perisoreus infaustus)_near Kuusamo (Finland)
Siberian Jay (Perisoreus infaustus)_near Kuusamo (Finland)	Siberian Jay (Perisoreus infaustus)_near Kuusamo (Finland)	Siberian Jay (Perisoreus infaustus)_near Kuusamo (Finland)	Siberian Jay (Perisoreus infaustus)_near Kuusamo (Finland)
Fox Sparrow (Zonotrichia iliaca)_Haapsalu (Estonia)	Fox Sparrow (Zonotrichia iliaca)_Haapsalu (Estonia)	Fox Sparrow (Zonotrichia iliaca)_Haapsalu (Estonia)	Fox Sparrow (Zonotrichia iliaca)_Haapsalu (Estonia)
Fox Sparrow (Zonotrichia iliaca)_Haapsalu (Estonia)	Fox Sparrow (Zonotrichia iliaca)_Haapsalu (Estonia)	Fox Sparrow (Zonotrichia iliaca)_Haapsalu (Estonia)	Fox Sparrow (Zonotrichia iliaca)_Haapsalu (Estonia)
Common Redpoll (Carduelis flammea)(ssp. flammea)(male)_Uurainen (Finland)	Common Redpoll (Carduelis flammea)(ssp. flammea)(female/1st-winter))_Uurainen (Finland)	Common Redpoll (Carduelis flammea)(ssp. flammea)(male)_Uurainen (Finland)	Common Redpoll (Carduelis flammea)(ssp. flammea)(male)_Uurainen (Finland)
Pine Grosbeak (Pinicola enucleator)(1st-winter male)_Espoo (Finland)	Pine Grosbeak (Pinicola enucleator)(1st-winter male)_Espoo (Finland)	Pine Grosbeak (Pinicola enucleator)(1st-winter male)_Espoo (Finland)	Pine Grosbeak (Pinicola enucleator)(1st-winter male)_Espoo (Finland)
Pine Grosbeak (Pinicola enucleator)(1st-winter male)_Espoo (Finland)	Pine Grosbeak (Pinicola enucleator)(1st-winter male)_Espoo (Finland)	Bohemian Waxwing (Bombycilla garrulus)_Espoo (Finland)