May 7^th

The morning was relatively quiet at Cape Põõsaspea, very few migrating waterfowl were on the move. Surprisingly the most numerous species turned out to be the velvet scoter, during a few hours nearly 700 individuals flew towards northeast. But while we saw 54 Arctic skuas in Kihnu within a few hours yesterday morning then at Cape Põõsaspea only one skua joined the migration.

In the evening  I checked the Sutlepa sea. There was no one remarkable among the waterfowl....

Looking over yesterday’s photos I remembered that in the evening I had photographed a skua passing in flight near Metsküla in Läänemaa. It was an Arctic skua, which means that yesterday I got one more species for my year list after all.

 

Collared flycatcher in the Kuressaare castle park (04.05.2012 Tambet Allik)

 

Since today was to be the...

In the morning I checked the best bird spots on the south side of the Matsalu bay, but no one in particular was noticeable. I now had the choice of going northwards to the Haapsalu area or crossing the sea to Saaremaa? I decided for the second option, it would be useful to shake out the ”juniper stand rarities” of western Saaremaa. When I already had reached Kuressaare information arrived that a pelican had been seen yesterday in Karksi in Mulgimaa. A pelican really was there in the enclosed photos, more precisely a  great white pelican, and the bird was sitting in a white stork nest! And what was it doing there? I called...