Some shots from a short ten-days-trip to Varanger in late July, based in Vadso. Flew into Rovaniemi, Finland, and drove up north with an overnight stop in Kaamanen. Did not have much success photographing birds in Finland this late in the season. Weather in Varanger was rather cool and dark, mostly overcast with a lot of light rain as well as some heavy showers. Sadly, we experienced only a handful of hours of sunshine (none on most days), most of them while driving north through Finland ...
In Varanger the breeding season was still in full swing and although birding was somewhat slow, we managed to connect with most birds, that we had expected, apart from Dotterel. We had skipped searching for Dotterel in Varanger mainly due to averse weather conditions and were hoping to find the bird in Finland - a mistake as we dipped there (they had been seen 'easily' at the usual spots earlier in the season).