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In FinnishJanne Aalto
I Started to watch birds with my big brother Pirkka about year 1982, when I was only 5 years old. Last ten years birdwatching has been much more than just a hobby for me, it has begun to be a way of life!
I have been birding mostly in Oulu area and in Parikkala area (last seven summers) but also Enontekiö-Lappland and Helsinki area are very familiar to me.
I have been doing a lot of birding works too, I have been in bogbirdcounts and in Lesser White-fronted Geese searchs in Enontekiö, in waterbirdcounts in Liminganlahti and as a guide and in different kind of counts in Parikkala Siikalahti birdlake for last seven summers.
I like birding in many different ways. I am not a twitcher, not a migration watcher and not ornithologist (scientist) but pretty much all of these. Mostly I like to watch birds in new places, watching local birds and migration.
I started digiscoping birds in April 2003 when I bought my Nikon Coolpix 4500 camera. I had already bought a new Zeiss 85 telescope, so it was nice to begun photographing with quite good equipment. On summer of 2009 also my second Coolpix went broken and I had to buy a new Samsung NV100HD camera.
In spring 2007 I bought a Sony MZ-RH1 minidisk -player, Sennheiser ME67 microphone, Rycote pistol and wind-shield. So there will be lots of recordings on these sites soon.
I have also been in ringing-stations pretty often. Mostly in Siikajoki Tauvo, but also periods in Lemland Lågskär, Hanko Halias and Ebro-delta Catalonia. I have been ringing only a little with my own licence - only some nightsingers and owls in Parikkala.
I have done some birding trips to foreign countries: Norway, Spitsbergen, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania (all several times), Sweden (a couple of times), England (3 times), Spain (twice in Andalucia and Catalonia and once in Canary Islands), Portugal and Madeira, Corsica (France) and Sardinia (Italy), Georgia (twice), Armenia, Russia, Israel, Egypt (twice), Morocco, Kuwait and Cap Verde. The first trip outside the Western Palearctic was made to India Goa.
GSM: +35850 3491 694
email: janne.aalto(at)ornio.net
Hanna Aalto
I started to watch birds with winterbirds which were visiting in our feedingplace. Finally birdwatching came the hobby for me when I joined to birdcourses in early 80`s. Since 1993 I have been almost every year as a quide in Parikkala Siikalahti birdlake. I started my studies in Oulu because it is an interesting birding area. While studying Biology I joined active to run North-Botnic Birding Assosiation. Nowadays I arrange also birding courses and do birdcountings.
I have also done birdpaintings for many years. I am doing them mostly for fun but I have also done a lot of paintings to different birding places and books. 1992 I won a young birddrawers award. I also photograph birds a lot, more and more every year.
In foreign countrys I have been birding three and a half months in Greese, three times in Israel, several times in Northern Norway, Spitsbergen, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, three times in Egypt and Georgia, twice in England and once in Andalucia, Catalonia, Canary, Portugal, Madeira, Corsica and Sardinia, Cap Verde, Sweden, Latvia, Lithuania, Armenia, Russia, Nederland, Morocco, Kuwait and India Goa.
GSM: +358505246597
email: hanna.aalto(at)ornio.net
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