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Living on a brown knapweed. The brown knapweed seems to be a real nectar flower, much more than its garden relatives like perennial cornflower or cornflower. Butterflies, honey bees, bumble bees and hoover flies are regular visitors. One can also speculate that it is prettier and more beautiful than its garden relatives.

Tufted duck by RistoAarneEdvardKernen http://ift.tt/2rYpcKz

Feeding session by RistoAarneEdvardKernen

The mute swan territory fight. The Finnoo bird basin in Espoo was for many years the summer home for the same mute swan pair. In the spring 2015 the pair was already nesting, when one of them died, most likely because of the territory fight. The other one left the nest, but stayed in the basin over the summer. In the next spring a new pair took over the basin and everything was calm. However, a year ago there was a dramatic territory fights, which lasted several week and surprisingly also a whooper swan pair was involved. Four swans were killed in the fight. This spring has started also aggressively. There have been several fights and also a whooper swan pair has occasionally been involved. The pictures are from Sunday, May 6, when three mute swan pairs, i.e. six swans were taking part in the fight, which lasted several hours. It calmed down in the afternoon and the coming days will show the final result.

Suomenoajan Luonto has organised again the winter seeding place for birds – like in many earlier years. Great Tits and Blue Tits have been very active at the feeding place.

Common teal by RistoAarneEdvardKernen http://ift.tt/2rbvh8y

Great Tit, Blue Tit, Coal Tit have been the most dominant birds at the Suomenoja (Finnoo) winter feeding place. In some days there have been  more than 50 blue tits and great tits.

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