Saturday 1 May 2021

Bird watching and knitting tiny sweaters

Once again I have a couple of Unicef dolls coming. This is the first one almost finished, a little boy doll for a little boy.


I knitted  this sweater to use up some yarn that was not so nice for socks or mittens. It is waiting for a girl doll to get some hair and the rest of her clothes.


On nice days we have been bird watching and met some new birds. This is a male Goldeneye, Bucephala clangula (telkkä). We met in April for the first time. 


The other end of his pond was still covered with ice.


On today's walk we met some punk birds I had never met before. They had like brown hair standing upright on top of their head.


According to our books and the internet, they are Horned grebes, Podiceps auritus (mustakurkku-uikku), and there was another couple on the same pond. 


And finally another bird we didn't see near our old home, an Eurasian wigeon, Mareca penelope (haapana).


If you missed our local swans, here they are from an earlier walk. One is hiding behind the other.


Today they were having lunch near their nest so I didn't want to disturb them by taking photos.


 

3 comments:

  1. What a cute doll with beautiful sweathers.

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  2. A nice new doll nicely dressed and a cute jumper for your next doll.
    Lovely to see your bird life. Beautiful swans...

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  3. Oo, mitä harvinaisuuksia olet nähnyt! Ja hyvät kuvatkin niistä sait. Lähistön merikotkat ei nyt täällä pesikään, taisivat talvella häiriintyä tai toisaalta ne kyllä vaihtavat pesäpaikkaa ajoittain.

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