Birding in Finnmark

In June-July my son and I did a two week birding road trip to Finnmark. We started with four days in The Pasvik Valley, continued with the coastal road on the Varanger Peninsula to Hamningberg, before we spent a night at the Hornøy Lighthouse.
From Vardø we took Hurtigruten to Kjøllefjord and spent a couple of days at Slettnes, before we returned via Stabbursneset i Porsanger.
Here are some of the birding highlights from the trip.
A thousand THANKS to Arnt Wiseth at Nikon Norway, who helped me out with equipment when my faithful old tele zoom had to go to the lens doctor...

Juvenile Siberian Tit (Poecile cinctus), Nilasmyra, Pasvik - lappmeis

Siberian Jay (Perisoreus infaustus), Pasvik - lavskrike

Male Bullfinch (Pyrrhula pyrrhula), Melkefoss, Pasvik - dompap

Singing Sedge Warbler (Acrocephalus schoenobaenus), Skrøytnes, Pasvik
- sivsanger

Red-necked Phalarope (Phalaropus lobatus), Vadsø - svømmesnipe

Male Steller's Eider (Polysticta Stelleri), Vadsø harbor - stellerand

Temminck's stint (Calidris temminckii), Skallelv - temmincksnipe

Portrait of Shag (Phalacrocorax aristotelis), Hornøy - toppskarv

Feathers of Shag (Phalacrocorax aristotelis),
Hornøy - toppskarv

Atlantic Puffin (Fratercula arctica), Hornøy
- lunde 

Common Guillemot (Uria aalge), Hornøy - lomvi

Common Guillemot (Uria aalge), Hornøy - lomvi

Rock Pipit (Antus petrosus), Hornøy - skjærpiplerke

Female Lapland Bunting (Calcarius lapponicus), Slettnes - lappspurv

Female Lapland Bunting (Calcarius lapponicus), Slettnes - lappspurv

Red-throated Pipit (Anthus cervinus), Slettnes - lappiplerke