walshey
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Just pondering my next trip, having been to Iceland recently and missed Gyr (again!) the Lincoln's Sparrow was some compensation though! I thought Norway might be a place to finally track my nemesis down. I realise no-one is ever going to reveal precise summer locations but how likely is it for a visting birder to stumble upon and where should I go?
There's some very cheap flights on Ryanair at the moment for mid-summer, either to some place I've never heard of near Bergen or more intriguingly another place I've never heard of in N.Sweden which offers the possibility of a long drive to Varangerfyord. In either place there is one other bird I haven't yet found also. White-backed Woodpecker in the S and Steller's Eider in the N (are there some around in the summer?)
If I hire a car in Sweden is it a problem, or more money if I want to take it into Norway (or Finland for that matter in the N)?
Where do you think I should go?
There's some very cheap flights on Ryanair at the moment for mid-summer, either to some place I've never heard of near Bergen or more intriguingly another place I've never heard of in N.Sweden which offers the possibility of a long drive to Varangerfyord. In either place there is one other bird I haven't yet found also. White-backed Woodpecker in the S and Steller's Eider in the N (are there some around in the summer?)
If I hire a car in Sweden is it a problem, or more money if I want to take it into Norway (or Finland for that matter in the N)?
Where do you think I should go?