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In Harjumaa bird life is more regular. Here and there some chaffinches and bramblings and hawfinches can be seen in the forests. To that groups of yellowhammers, occasional robins and wrens. Sometimes we can meet flocks of redpolls and waxwings or snow buntings, but they are northern envoys. With luck an owl or a buzzard can be seen. A buzzard looking for prey from a rowan let us approach unusually close a few days ago – it was early morning and hunger probably bit in its belly. The observation point was very cleverly chosen by the buzzard, by the way: a somewhat higher knoll in a field near a farm. A bit further away the vole holes were flooded by water, and the voles there were only saved from death by drowning by the same little bit of hillside …