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Birding Finland on the Fly

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First was an awesome stay in Iceland. Here’s his third stop: In June of 2013, we arrived in Helsinki, the capital and largest city in Finland, and our third destination on our European getaway. And, as appears to be the case in most cities in Finland, wildlife and nature is only steps away! Old Town Tallinn, Estonia.

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Postcard From ‘Eirene’

10,000 Birds

As the winds have been almost exclusively from the west and north west it may well be that these are birds from Greenland or Iceland that have been caught up in these post hurricane weather systems and moved further west than they otherwise might have chosen to fly, similar to the large scale arrivals of Lapland Buntings at a similar time last year.

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