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The Highlights of June 2025

June is not exactly the most thrilling month for birdwatchers. Migration has pretty much come to a halt—there’s still some movement, but compared to the spectacle of May, it feels rather uneventful. Personally, I even find June one of the slowest months of the year. I’m not too fascinated by fledglings, and after the excitement of May it’s a bit of a letdown to see the same species, in the same numbers, day after day in my local patches.

A day on Saaremaa Island: enjoying a duck spectacle!

In February 2024, Arie-Willem van der Wal, Jacob Molenaar, and I went to Estonia for a week to search for Eurasian lynx. We planned to spend four days and four nights searching for the lynx, and on the fifth day, we would look for a special duck: the Steller’s eider. Now that the first four days had gone really well, it was time for the icing on the cake!

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