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See also Reports from Scandinavia for tours, Barents Sea and more Arctic circle reports.
Owls in Norway March 2014 
- Owls are one of my favorite groups when it comes to birds, and especially clear nights when the stars are shining bright and the owls are doing their magic...Håvard Eggen reports.
Birding Northern Norway in Winter by Hurtigruten March 2013
- I have always wanted to see Steller’s Eider, King Eider, Gyr Falcon and the Northern Lights. We decided that there was good chance of achieving at least some of these ambitions by travelling on a Hurtigruten ferry from Tromso northwards to Kirkenes and back again in the winter. The ferry route crosses Varanger Fjord which is known as the best place in Europe to see Steller’s Eider, and is also good for King Eider....Rosemary Royle reports.
Varanger 2-18th July 2010 (with 3 day trips to Pasvik and 1 to Kevo (Finland))
- First two rough leg buzzards hovering by the road soon after leaving Kirkenes, with red throated divers in the roadside lochs just outside the town. Fieldfares in the roadside trees. Willow warblers abundant and in full song. Hoodies everywhere....Dave and Sammy Langlois report.
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Finland
/ Norway - Oct -
2003,
281
Bird Species recorded
- Our next stop was for an awesome adult
White-tailed Eagle that flew over the roadside trees and
gave spectacular views. A little further on we stopped for
coffee at a roadside café.....There were all the usual commoner
birds present including several Common Redpolls, and after
a good 10 minutes I picked up a Pine Grosbeak perched in
a very close tree...Nick Bray reports for
Birdseekers
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Spitsbergen
Cruise ~ Polar Bear Quest 21st
July-2nd August, 2007
- On July 25th, we
reach our most northerly position, Sjuøyane, a group of
seven islands, north of Nordaustlandet, barely 600 miles from
the North Pole, where tiny pale yellow Svalbard Poppies, the
national flower of Svalbard, may be the world’s most northerly
flowering plants...Chris Hall reports
Voss area,
Norway late August 2006
- This trip was primarily for sightseeing purposes,
though one eye was always kept on the wildlife and a trip was made
to the nature reserve at Reppen which held several wader species...Stephen
Dunstan reports
5th
journey from S Sweden to the Barents Sea July
2004
- Weather in the High Arctic was mostly dry and
quite windy this year. No rodents there, neither in Norway nor in
Finland, whereas below the Arctic circle in Sweden (Norrbotten)
rodents were plenty! - Mosquitoes quite bad this year, especially
on calm, warm days on wet tundra in the evening. Strangely, a few
species were quite scarce or totally missing like Common Eider,
breeding Bar-tailed Godwit , Purple Sandpiper etc..Lutz Lücker
reports. .
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Sweden
to the Barents Sea (Great grey, brown and white Owls)
July 2003
- My main target species was Great Grey
Owl; I managed to see it on the third day; the rest I considered
as a bonus! It was a little too late for passerines so I
did not go to the Pasvik valley this year, preferring to
explore a high tundra plateau more thoroughly. One cannot
do everything at the same time. Distances are just too far
in the Arctic!...Lutz Lücker reports. More photo's
from Lutz on www.worldbirder.com
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From S Sweden to the Barents
Sea and back to the North Sea Coast July
2002
- No Gyrfalcons this year at the Tana Valley
site but the first Rough-legged Buzzards, Woodcock and Waxwing.
1 Merlin km 8 NE Austertana. Another Rough-legged Buzzard near
Gednje, Sedge Warbler + 2 more male Elk at km 8, crossing miles
of bare TUNDRA ! There were lots of rodents in Arctic Norway this
year (except Mountain Lemming.) so the Buzzards were everywhere!
Waxwings were also numerous, even in non-coniferous woodland....Lutz
Lücker reports.
From S Sweden to Lapland
July 2001
- Generally, it was a windy month of
July. No long periods of sunshine, but not too much rain either.
But the wind often kept birds and animals hidden and difficult
to observe. My main target species
were Gyrfalcon, Moose and Whales; I managed to see them all during
the first week; the rest I considered as a bonus! Ended up with
15 raptor species, all except Hen Harrier!...Lutz Lücker
reports
Varanger (Norway) June
1-6 2001,
- From a birder's point of view, the Varanger
Peninsula is a fantastic place. In five and a half days of birding
I saw 74 species, maybe not a lot in terms of numbers but being
my first time in Northern Scandinavia, almost every bird was a
big thrill. Although some of the species listed below can be seen
in Spain and Southern Europe in winter, here they were all in
full breeding plumage...Ignacio Yúfera reports
Finland and
Varanger 23rd May – 3rd June 2001
- We traveled in late May in order to maximise
opportunities to pick up species that can be difficult at other
times of the year e.g. Owls and Woodpeckers, and to get early
migrants. We decided to travel extensively and the longer daylight
hours enabled two whole 'nights' to be spent birding, although
having to travel the following day, led to significant sleep loss....Wilton
Farrelly reports
Lapland/ Laponie July/juillet
2000
- Some Norwegians said it was the wettest
or coldest summer they had ever seen, another said there had never
been so many insects.... But thanks to some good local anti-mosquito
stuff, a net (and, very rarely, gloves) the little bastards were
not a major problem on the coast and the tundra. In woodland areas
(Pasvik...) they did get a bit troublesome at times...Lutz
Lücker reports
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