Helsinki Birder
@helsinkibirder.bsky.social
Irish Birder Transplanted to Finland. Rare Bird Finder/Identifier. Interested in Raptors, Seabirds & visible migration.
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Autumn round up - Rarities, Gulls and Latvia. #gulls #birds #birdID #birding #finland #latvia #birdwatching
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Autumn 2025 - Latvia and Early Winter
It wouldn't be Autumn without a yank, and a Pectoral Sandpiper appearing on Laajalahti, one of my regular sites, fit the bill nicely. Pector...
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November 25, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Autumn round up - Rarities, Gulls and Latvia. #gulls #birds #birdID #birding #finland #latvia #birdwatching
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DOGE shut down for inefficiency. 😂😂😂
November 25, 2025 at 8:01 AM
DOGE shut down for inefficiency. 😂😂😂
Oriental Turtle Dove (meena). Been a long time since I've seen OTD. So took the chance to get in on the incredible OTD influx in #finland this year. 😍😎 #birds #birding #birdwatching brings back happy memories of Cape Clear!
November 24, 2025 at 10:08 AM
November 24, 2025 at 9:15 AM
Great Grey Shrike. Good numbers of these around this winter. Excellent #birds! 😍😎 #birding #birdwatching #finland
November 23, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Great Grey Shrike. Good numbers of these around this winter. Excellent #birds! 😍😎 #birding #birdwatching #finland
First gulling session for me in a while. 8 Caspian (4x1st w, 3 x 2nd w and a 4th w) gulls at st Margaret's late morning. #wpgulls #kentbirding
November 23, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Hawk Owl. My first of the winter this evening. Performed superbly. Always make time for the #BestBirdInTheUniverse! 😍😎 #birds #owls #SuperbOwl #birding #finland #birdwatching
November 23, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Hawk Owl. My first of the winter this evening. Performed superbly. Always make time for the #BestBirdInTheUniverse! 😍😎 #birds #owls #SuperbOwl #birding #finland #birdwatching
Oriental Turtle Dove (meena). Been a long time since I've seen OTD. So took the chance to get in on the incredible OTD influx in #finland this year. 😍😎 #birds #birding #birdwatching brings back happy memories of Cape Clear!
November 23, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Oriental Turtle Dove (meena). Been a long time since I've seen OTD. So took the chance to get in on the incredible OTD influx in #finland this year. 😍😎 #birds #birding #birdwatching brings back happy memories of Cape Clear!
November 23, 2025 at 5:07 AM
Compare these images with those of L l melanuroides from Japan www.instagram.com/reel/DOuYs0A... - images taken N Lincs August 21sta nd 29th 2010 and suggested at the time as L l m by RM at B World but mag folded before it was moved forward - forgot it until seeing images linked above -
November 22, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Pygmy Owl. Dawn and singing in my garden again. 😍😎 These #birds are never gonna get old for me. They're just magic. #SuperbOwl #owls #birding #birdwatching #finland
November 22, 2025 at 6:03 AM
Pygmy Owl. Dawn and singing in my garden again. 😍😎 These #birds are never gonna get old for me. They're just magic. #SuperbOwl #owls #birding #birdwatching #finland
Lesser Scaup - Blast From The Past Finds. Find the first Lesser Scaup for Dublin was a great memory. A species that has now become quite regular, it nonetheless remains a top target for a finds list. #irishrarebirds #birds #birding #birdwatching
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Lesser Scaup - Blast From The Past Finds
Lesser Scaup is a species that has gone from significant rarity to...dare I say, mundane? Better optics, greater awareness and digital phot...
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November 22, 2025 at 5:03 AM
Lesser Scaup - Blast From The Past Finds. Find the first Lesser Scaup for Dublin was a great memory. A species that has now become quite regular, it nonetheless remains a top target for a finds list. #irishrarebirds #birds #birding #birdwatching
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Reposted by Helsinki Birder
So, without much ado, we've kind of lost the first major city to climate change. (Tehran, metropolitan area 15 million people.)
Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian: “When we proposed relocating the capital, we lacked the budget…
“People said it was impossible, but now it’s no longer optional.
“We can’t keep adding population and construction here. Expansion is possible, but the water problem cannot be solved.”
“People said it was impossible, but now it’s no longer optional.
“We can’t keep adding population and construction here. Expansion is possible, but the water problem cannot be solved.”
November 21, 2025 at 9:40 AM
So, without much ado, we've kind of lost the first major city to climate change. (Tehran, metropolitan area 15 million people.)
It's almost as if staying away from other people when an infectious disease is on the loose is a good idea.
Shame on everyone who risked other people during lockdown and everyone who denied their necessity.
Shame on everyone who risked other people during lockdown and everyone who denied their necessity.
Remembering the hit of fear as Italians I respect immensely told me in early March that "you must lock down ASAP". While the British government said these were "populist – non-science based – measures that aren't any use" and "they're who not to follow".
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‘Too little, too late’: damning report condemns UK’s Covid response
Report on handling of pandemic contains stinging criticism of ‘toxic and chaotic’ culture inside Boris Johnson’s No 10
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November 20, 2025 at 6:05 PM
It's almost as if staying away from other people when an infectious disease is on the loose is a good idea.
Shame on everyone who risked other people during lockdown and everyone who denied their necessity.
Shame on everyone who risked other people during lockdown and everyone who denied their necessity.
Passing 10K readers of my Bean Goose ID post today, along with passing a quarter million of the blog overall is a decent milestone. 🙂😎
Glad it helps people out every winter. #birds #birding
Glad it helps people out every winter. #birds #birding
I think bluesky needs a #BirdID feed. So I built one.
To start it off, and topical to the #irishrarebirds feed, a blog post on Tundra and Taiga Bean Goose identification.
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To start it off, and topical to the #irishrarebirds feed, a blog post on Tundra and Taiga Bean Goose identification.
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Finnish Focus On...Taiga And Tundra Bean Geese
Have been meaning to write a post on Tundra and Taiga Bean Goose identification for a while now. Wildfowl are my guilty pleasure. I've alway...
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November 20, 2025 at 9:43 AM
Pacific Diver at Crookhaven Harbour, Co.Cork, Ireland.
November 2025
November 2025
November 20, 2025 at 8:42 AM
November 20, 2025 at 8:42 AM
Glossy Ibis at The Gearagh, Co. Cork - part of the recent large influx into Britain and Ireland. #BirdsSeenIn2025 #Birds @johncreedon.bsky.social
November 20, 2025 at 8:36 AM
November 20, 2025 at 8:36 AM
The lovely Northern Parula on the Beara Peninsula yesterday - a great find by Kieran Grace and only the 4th Irish record of this vagrant N. American warbler. #Rare #Birds #BirdsSeenIn2025
November 20, 2025 at 8:35 AM
1st winter male Ring-necked Duck at Castlemartyr Lake, East Cork, 22/10/25.
#Rare #BirdsSeenIn2025 #Birds #IrishBirding
#Rare #BirdsSeenIn2025 #Birds #IrishBirding
November 20, 2025 at 8:35 AM
The male Isabelline Shrike in Co Wexford today- an extremely rare vagrant and only the first ever adult male recorded in Ireland. #birds #BirdsSeenIn2025 #IrishBirding
November 20, 2025 at 8:34 AM
The tiny Pallas's Warbler at Helvick Head, Co. Waterford today. #rare #birds #BirdsSeenIn2025 @watbirds.bsky.social #IrishBirding
November 20, 2025 at 8:34 AM
Red-breasted Flycatcher at Helvick Head 8/11/25 - another vagrant from the east. #Birds #BirdsSeenIn2025 #rare
November 20, 2025 at 8:34 AM
November 20, 2025 at 8:33 AM