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Day 6-8 Part 2
September 11, 2026 - June 13th
We were on the road again by 5am, greeted by clear skies and sunshine, although temperatures remained a chill...
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Day 6-8 Mount Ailigás and on to the Varanger - Part 1
June 30, 2026 - June 11th Ptarmigan, Mount Ailigás, Finland, June 2025
We had one final day in the area before moving further north the...
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Day 4-6 into the Arctic circle and the Karigasniemi Marsh
June 11, 2026 - Monday 9th June
After leaving the Siberian Jays, we headed north towards the Arctic Circle. It was still early, a...
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Day 1-3 Oulu to Kussamo
September 23, 2025 - Nearly two year since our last trip and after some mixed success in Lapland we decided on a return trip to try and find...
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Day 6 - Day 2 In Batsjford the tundra hunt
March 24, 2024 - It was the final day in Norway before heading back to Finland and after another decent breakfast in the hotel we headed...
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Day 5 - The journey to Batsjford
March 12, 2024 - On the road early doors as we take the 2 hour journey to Batsjford. Really excited to hit the tundra around this part of...
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Day 4 up to Vardo the Temmincks Hunt continues.
September 01, 2023 - After drawing a blank yesterday on Temmincks Stint the plan was to head out again today to try some other areas. We had...
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Day 3, Vadso and surrounding area
August 08, 2023 - Day 3 Vadso - The Temmincks hunt begins
The plan today was to head to Vadso. Part of it is the island of Vadsøya join...
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Arctic Adventures Day 2, Pasvik Valley, journey to Vadso
July 24, 2023 - Day 2 Pasvik Valley
We were awoken to the sound of the local Brambling again. Definitely the sound of this years trip...
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Arctic adventures day 1 Finland
July 21, 2023 - Arctic Adventures Day 1
After a few months in the planning it was time to depart for 9 days north of the Arctic Circle.
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Day 6, Leaving Raufarhofn and the journey to Blondous
August 10, 2022 - Day 6
Weather was a bit different this morning!! No it was still very dull Overcast and cold but this morning we had wi...
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Day 5 Purple Rain…. Raufarhorn and the Purple Sandpiper hunt continues
August 04, 2022 - Day 5 Purple Rain….. Raufarhorn and the Purple Sandpiper hunt continues
Day 5 weather still overcast and chilly but w...
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Day 4 Raufarhofn and surrounding tundra
August 03, 2022 - Day 4
Not an early start again as the weather was crap. Low cloud and pretty nippy. This was the view from my window be...
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Day 7 and the final day - Cairngorm Mountains
February 20, 2022 - This was the day I was most looking forward to, a day in the Cairngorm mountains. I could walk up into these mountains a...
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Cyprus Day 1-2
May 03, 2015 - This year saw the wife and I return to Cyprus. Its a perfect place for us as it has beaches (i hate seating on them) and...
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Northwick Warth
August 29, 2014 - A quick trip to Northwick Warth after work for the Wood Sandpiper found by Paul Bowerman. Weather was pretty bad wind ha...
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