Saturday, May 30th, a warm and sunny day in Helsinki. People dressing up and heading to "lukio" graduation parties. (Lukio is not directly translatable to English but it's a kind of general upper secondary school here.)
I headed to the goshawk forest instead to look for flowers to photograph, like this lily-of-the-valley. The local gulls were kind enough to let me know that the hawks were around. I wonder how many chicks they got this year. I did hear an icterine warbler as well, but I'll try to get a photo of it later. But the most peculiar thing today was hearing Australian accent in the wild: "Australians? Here in the forest? I didn't expect that."
#lilyofthevalley
#convallariamajalis
#flowers
#helsinki
#finland
#may
#spring