Blue morph Snow Goose
On Tuesday 21st of August I drove south to Kirkkonummi to my parents. On the way I stopped in Lappeenranta Askola where on the pools I saw only 4 Ringed Plovers, a Common Sandpiper and 19 Lapwings. Then I drove until Espoo Laajalahti where were several birders already but not too many birds; a Golden Plover, a Dunlin, 40 Gadwalls and so on. I still drove to Kirkkonummi Saltfjärden where I enjoyed a beautiful sunset with at least 120 Cranes making noise around me.
On the 22nd of August I woke up sick, my throat felt bad. Anyway I decided to drive to Helsinki Viikki but because of the rush-hour it took very long to drive there. Then I had difficulties to find the right parking place from where the path to Lammassaari started. After all it took so long that I decided to give up and drove back to Kirkkonummi where a blue morph Snow Goose had been found again in Storkanskog. The bird had been around for a week.
Luckily the rush-hour was gone and I managed to get to Storkanskog pretty quickly. I found the flock of 400 Greylag Goose easily and then it was easy to find the Snow Goose too! It was only 200 metres from the road so I got some good digiscoping pictures! After 10 minutes a tractor came and pushed the birds further to a longer field and I gave up and drove to my parents.
We had a good lunch and after that I had to go to Helsinki to a meeting that was the reason I was there. In the afternoon I drove back to Parikkala.
J.A.