Birds, Mammals and Butterflies of Estonia

15 to 20 June 2024

All photographs copyright Paul Gale Bird Photography

Seen but not photographed: adult male Wolf, White-backed Woodpecker, Pine Marten, Racoon dog, Corncrake (with many calling in the long grass fields), several Woococks along road at dusk, male Marsh Harrier, Hawfinch, Spotted Flycatcher, Thrush Nightingale, singing Redwing, Fieldfares, Skylark, Woodlark, very red male Scarlet Rosefinch singing, buzzard mobbing adult white-tailed eagle, hooded crows, magpie, lapwings, curlew, house martins, swallows, swifts, blackbirds very common, robin, song thrush, common sandpiper, jay, mistle thrush, raven, whitethroat, blackcap, goldfinch, chaffinch, grey heron, long-tailed tit, black redstarts around hotel, bluet tit, great tit, brimstone, Greenish Warbler singing,

Wolf - family group of female and three youngsters at 800 metres range, male also briefly seen much closer	Beaver - note its tail on the left
Elk - very early in the morning, note the long shadows	Hare
Red Fox	Roe Deer
Black Hairstreak	Black-veined White
Bullfinch	Chiffchaff
Common Crane	Cuckoo
Large Wall Brown	Cranberry Blue
Amanda's Blue	Mazarine Blue
Golden Oriole - flock of six around the hotel	Goldeneye
Grasshopper Warbler	Great-grey Shrike
Great white Egret	Great-spotted Woodpecker
Green Sandpiper - nests in tree in forest clearings, feeding in ditches along the track	Grey-headed Woodpecker
Hazel Hen - juvenile birds in the forest	Honey Buzzard
Heath Fritillary	High-brown Fritillary
Icterine Warbler	Marsh Warbler
Blyth's Reed Warbler	Water Lillies
Lesser Marbled Fritillary	Scarce Fritillary
Lesser Purple Emperor	Moorland Clouded Yellow
Lesser spotted Eagle	Osprey
Small Pearl-bordered Fritillary	Wood Warbler
Aberrant Lesser Marbled Fritillary	Lesser Marbled Fritillaries
Moth	Chestnut Heath
Pied Flycatcher	Day-flying Moth
Poplar Admiral	Poplar Admiral female
Poplar Admiral	Poplar Admiral underside
Poplar Admirals	Poplar Admiral flight
White Admiral	Red Admiral
Redstart	Red-necked Grebe
Red-backed Shrike	Scarlet Rosefinch
Sedge Warbler	Short-eared Owl
Skipper	Small Tortoiseshell
Skipper	Common Snipe
Sparrowhawk	Yellowhammer
Thistle	Trees
Tree Pipit	Tree Sparrow
Treecreeper	Whinchat
White Stork	White Wagtail
Habitat photos	Woodcock
	Forest

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