Hey!

I got the idea when I was picking up my car from the garage, and taking it to the second mandatory vehicle inspection (after the first one had failed).

I decided to go to the place of an unfinished photo project of mine, to the beginnings of a river, a small creek called Koukkupommi.

Koukkupommi

"Koukkupommi" means "hook bomb" or "crooked bomb", so it's actually a kind of twisted little trickle that'll eventually, after many turns and bends, becomes a great river, the Porvoonjoki (Finnish) ("Porvoo river"), that goes out to the sea in the pictoresque town Porvoo.

I was where the Äväntjoki joins Koukkupommi, and both their waters then flow towards Lahti. A smaller creek called Myllyoja also joins Koukkupommi, a bit more downstream, where I left my car.

^{Greater white-fronted goose (Anser albifrons)}

As soon as I arrived, I saw two of these magnificient creatures there, but they got away from me quite swiftly, and since I couldn't get over the Myllyoja creek, they swam fast away upstream Koukkupommi, and that's the last I saw of them.

I saw this Common gull...

^{Common gull (Larus canus)}

And I needed to go back to the road so I could get on the other side of Myllyoja to take closer photos of her.

But she got scared and left before I could get much closer.

I wonder who her neighbor is. Might be a Kestrel, that'd be interesting.

On the other side, upstream of Koukkupommi I saw a Wood sandpiper.

Wood sandpiper (Tringa glareola)

And in a tree on the other side of the road, there was a magpie who started to fly, so I shot him too.

^{Eurasian magpie (Pica pica)}

And to top it all off, I was suprised by this Kestrel who was on the hunt. I am glad I got some photos, as he quickly rose very high. I wonder if he minds his subtenant.

^{Common kestrel (m) (Falco tinnunculus)}

Ohh, it was a nice day today. I was kind of wishing I could shoot a bird of prey one day. Today made my wish true!

I hope you liked these photos!

See ya guys later!