Surely, one of the best places in Europe for woodland birds and certainly the best site I know for seeing Hazel Grouse and White-backed Woodpecker
All the sites in this section are treated, in detail and with precise maps and directions, in my book ‘Finding Birds in Estonia’
If you have any information which you feel would help to update the book, please email me at dave@easybirder.co.uk and I’ll add your observations to these pages
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Nigula
There’s a boardwalk trail that leads across Nigula Bog to a forested island
The island is the arrowed site on this map. It shows that it contains the highest density of woodpeckers in the area - and the area is one of the best in Europe for woodpeckers! La creme de la creme!
This is the clearing at site 5 in my book. We stopped here to look (successfully) for Black and Grey-headed Woodpeckers but also found the nest of a White-backed Woodpecker in that stand of Aspens.
These maps also show the highest concentrations of Hazel Grouse (top left), ‘large bird nests’ (presumably storks, buzzards, goshawks and eagles - top right) and Red-breasted Flycatcher (bottom right)
On the boardwalk across the bog we found this dump of bear poo. No guesses what it had been eating.
