Some shots from a one week trip to Oulu in early June, mainly for owling. Our main target was to catch up with nordic owl species, and with skilled professional help from finnature we managed sightings of seven species, yielding four much wanted ticks for me. As chance would have it, this was an exceptionally good year for Blyth's Reed Warbler in the general area, filling yet another gap on my European list. Unfortunately it turned out too hard to get more than a record shot of this species. Although spring migration was essentially over, random birding in the Oulu area was reasonably good and included Pallid Harrier as one of the birding highlights (sorry, no pictures).