The Woodbecker Forest

We have a summerplace in northern Kouvola, south-eastern Finland. Near the cottage there's a broad leaf woodland which I call the Woodbecekr forest. It's my absolute favority. Here you can see some scenes and pics of birds. Most of the bird photos are taken on winter time near their feeding place.

The woodbeckers

Woodbeckers are the main reason why I keep up the feeding Place. Those birds do have a strong character. They are lively, curious and inventive creatures.

The white back woodbeckers (valkoselkätikat)

These birds are extremely threatened. There are only 100 - 200 pairs of them in Finland. This couple has been my friends for three winters. This May I heard their woices for the first time outside the winter. Let's hope they succeed in their nesting.

Female

Male

The grey headed woodbeckers (harmaapäätikat)

These birds are very careful. I use to sit in seven meters distance from their food. They can fly around the Place even for an our. And they start eating only after I turn my back to them..

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Female

The northern lights above Salpausselkä

The great spotted woodbeckers (käpytikat)

They are the most common woodbeckers in Finland. They succeed because they eat almost anything. In the forest there are three pairs living threre all year round. It's quitte common that they start fighting for their eating turns.

The Black Woodbecker and the Lesser Spotted Woodpecker (palokärki ja pikkutikka)

These birds live year round in the forest. But I couldn't have taken proper photos of them. So these pics are from Roihuvuori, my home willage just to show you what they look like.

The Tits (tiaiset)

The forest is also the home of several kinds of tits.

 The grat Tit (talitiainen)

 The crested Tit (töyhtötiainen)

 The willow Tit (Hömötiainen)

The blue Tit (sinitiainen)

Other birds

Here you can see some other birds living in and around the forest.

 The Crane (kurki)

 The Whooper Swan female (laulujoutsen)

 Male

The Robin (punarinta)

 The Mallard (heinäsorsa)

The eurasian Treecreeper (puukiipijä)

 The Jay (närhi)

The Roe Deer (metsäkauris)

The Roihuvuori milieu, exhibition in Stoa in Mars 2018

Jussi Aalto, Iiro Kaukiainen, Pekka Mäkelä and I had a photography exhibition "The Four from Roihuvuori" in the Helsinki City cultural centre Stoa on spring 2018. My part was to describe the constructed surroundings of our home willage.

In the Shade of Worksite

The Tammisalo Canal

The Southern Part of the Willage

Back in 1960's

On the 21st Century

The Grey Heron on the Bay of Stroms

Cherry trees in the Japan-style park

The Porolahti Bay

Roihuvuori by Night

Roihuvuori has a lot of energy. I do believe that it's the night life which loads the batteries. You don't know our willage if the life after midnigt is strange to you. Here you have some pictures in no particular order. Rest and enjoy.

 

Picts of the Jan: Fireflies in the Sky, on the Moon and in the Woodpecker Forest

My friend the Willow Tit

It's quite easy to ask a dog to stay on its Place as long as it takes to have a photo of it. But these wild birds in the middle of the forest... It's a matter of trust.

Some trouble with the Great Tit

Picture of Dec: The painter

There is an art container in Roihuvuori. It's become quite famous because of the changing graffities. A painting is lucky if it survives a week before the wall is repainted. This graffiti survived only ten hours during the last night.  K.R., who 's painter, is very well known among those folks and the guys travel even from Stockholm to see his art.