Greetings from Finland (1 Viewer)

[iporali]

Hello Forum,

Seldom (...actually never) have I seen so many netizens discussing about a passionate hobby with such friendliness, politeness and sense of humour. Bird Forum was like a breath of fresh air after having just read some computing threads full of flame.

I just felt I had to jump in.

Happy birding everybody,

Ilkka
(Nikon LX/HG 10x32, Kowa 823, CP4500, JVC parabola, Sony MD-N910, TiBook400... yeah, I am tech-crazy )

 

[pduxon]

Hello and welcome to the forum.

Hope you enjoy and we get to read about your exploits

 

[IanF]

Hi Ilkka,

On behalf of Admin and the Moderators, welcome to Bird Forum :t:

I am glad to see that you like the site. As you say we have a great bunch of people making up our membership, both knowledgeable and willing to share their experiences with the rest of us.

I see you share the same scope/camera combination as myself. I just took up digiscoping ealrier this year thanks in the main to Andy Bright's digiscoping section which is a mine of useful information. I don't know whether you have found the Gallery section yet, but every member has 12 mb of free to use webspace, so please feel free to upload a few photos. I'm sure we'd love to see some shots of the birds of Finland.

See you around.

 

[Edward]

Tervetuloa Ilkka!

Great to have another Nordic birder on BF. Hope to hear some bird news and see some pictures of the great bird life in your country. I have been the Finland three times but wasn't into birding then. What a missed opportunity!! Spent a week in May once between Mikkeli and Kuopio but didn't give the birds a second thought. I must have been crazy.

E

 

[Andrew]

Tervetuloa Ilkka, :hi:

(copied Edward, I am trying to be clever!)

Glad you joined us and you are right it is a great site with great members. Seeing your techie details I can see you will have a lot to offer us as well as us to you! Enjoy!

 

[erik]

hey Ilkka!

Mitaa Kuuluu? (hehe who's the cleverest of all?)

You were so right in your introduction words. This is the right place to be! Have a great time around here and i'll probably cya surfin around here on the site!

Erik

 

[Art Thorn]

Hello Ilkka. Hauska Tutustuu! (spelling probably bad, but I was three years old when I left). Greetings from Canada. You are the first member I've run across who uses the 10x32s also. I have the 8x and 10x but always take the 10s. How do you like them?

Aatos

 

[steve_nova]

Hi Ilkka and a warm welcome to bird forum . Because of my passing interest in architecture, I have been to a couple of forums relating to this subject and have to agree with you. The pettiness and verbal diarrhea on display sometimes defies belief.

 

[iporali]

Wow - thank you guys for the welcome! I thought Finnish was difficult for non-Finnish. And yes, I really have enjoyed browsing on the forums - it has been both educating and entertaining experience (like the thread about Nikon SE 8x32 & little fingers... LOL!).

Edward, you probably did not miss too many "exotic species" on your visit to Mikkeli/Kuopio. The area is beautiful ("lake district"), but the species diversity is higher here on the eastern border (Carelia). Anyway, I hope you still have a chance to visit Finland as a birding tourist - and if it happens to be in North Carelia, don't hesitate to e-mail me, I'd be happy to offer accommodation etc.

Hi Andrew and Erik, kiitos hyvää kuuluu !

Aatos, nice to meet you too - do you mean you are originally Finnish? About those bins, I chose them because I am planning to have 8x32s for my wife one day . If I should have taken only one pair, it probably would have been 8x32s because I almost always have a scope (and a wife) with me. Nikon HGs (smaller objective) are in my hands and eyes the very best binoculars I have used (Swaro EL's included).

 

[Andrew]

Not sure what my reply should be but hey thanks whatever it said!