Baltic Cruise

 Just a quick post about a cruise around the Baltic Sea the good lady and myself went on in Febuary this year. Ports of call were Skagen in Denmark, Stockholm in Sweden, Riga in Latvia, Klaipeda in Lithuania and back to Sweden for our last port, Copenhagen. We were on board Ambassador Ambience, a ship we have been on several times.

I didn't do any birding as such, but I did take the camera ashore in Stockholm and took a few images of the local bird life in the city.

House Sparrow, lots of this species in all the cities we visited

Hooded Crow

Great Tit

Goldeneye

Fieldfare

Fieldfare

Feildfare in a snow flurry.

Female Goldeneye

Feeding time on the river Norrstrom, one of the shortest rivers in Europe

Common Scoter, taken as we wre leaving the port of Riga in Latvia

Blue Tit

Blackbird

Approach into Stockholm, and what an approach it is; the scenery is absolutely stunning, made more spectacular by the snow fall.

Approach into Stockholm

Approach into Stockholm

Female Common Eider, again taken as we were leaving the port of Riga in Latvia.

Like I've said, it wasn't a birding trip and as for cetaceans- I hardly spent any time out on deck, as the tempertures ranged from -2 feeling like -6 to -5 feeling like -10,  pretty cold in my eyes-but still a great cruise.

As always thanks for stopping by.