One week ago, I heard my first City Robin (Erithacus rubecula) singing its fabulous verses in my home yard, in the center of the city of Turku. It is one of my annual moments of joy, and according to the mini-laboratory of our yard, an example of bird fauna being able to accept the quarters of block houses as its home, following the road paved by concrete and asphalt that has already been treaded by earlier pioneers, the Magpie (Pica pica) and Ringed Dove (Columba palumbus) in Finland.
The Bird
Brigadiers made it yesterday to the first page of the Internet bird database
“Tiira” held by BirdLife Finland: a total of 150 robins were scattered in
the island’s bushes yesterday – I can only imagine the sound of ringing bells
that must have filled the air!
The amount
of Crested Tits (Parus cristatus) was
15, but they are the resident population in contrast to Robins. Their big
amount reflects the old pine forest being their ecological niche in our forest.
The morning migration will be scanned today, but the sea was already yesterday bursting
with waterfowl, and the first edge of the main migration of a few species had landed
on the waters around the island: 4200 Eiders (Somateria mollissima), 21 Red-necked
Grebes (Podiceps griseigena) and 7
Slavonian Grebes (Podiceps auritus).
Lucky those
spending their day at Örö!
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