Kingfisher & Wombat: Good morning, Finland! Today I am going somewhere and seeing something but I can’t spell where it is phonetically so we’ll all find out when I get there. I believe there is a tower!

Good morning, Finland! Today I am going somewhere and seeing something but I can’t spell where it is phonetically so we’ll all find out when I get there. I believe there is a tower!

Ooh! Natural History Museum!

I am told the Loon is responsible for creating the world, according to Finnish myth.

Eagle owl! (Taxidermy division.)

One of my guides is now rating all the taxidermy by how tasty the species is.

Bunchy hindquarters.

There’s a big flying squirrel display. Some weird artificial trees we saw earlier turned out to be flying squirrel highways!

I understood this reference! (Just started reading this one)

My cat does that exact pose on the regular

Fuzzy paws!

My husband did this at the Smithsonian in the old Arctic exhibit (he lived with the Inupiat for a while). We got horrified looks from passers by as he rated each endangered spp. "Delicious" "fishy" "very greasy, but you need that up there..."

I’m afraid that when @museumlara1.bsky.social and I visited the natural history museum the first time, I got us invited to leave. In retrospect, while my descriptions of what the animals taste like were undoubtedly upsetting to some people, sharing my recipes was probably a bridge too far…

This is the way. (Be on the lookout for bite marks on the exhibits)

… presumably beforehand?

Snacksidermy

Aww! He's playing with a friend!

I am now accepting this as factual.

Makes more sense to me than many other creation myths, given the available evidence.

This of course explains why they were there on Thanos’ retirement planet too. They created ALL worlds in our Multiverse, they just decided to only hang out on the pretty ones.

The Finns are onto something.

Well you'd have to be a loon to come to come up with this nonsense, am I right

I thought it was a Goldeneye!

Clearly non-birders have gotten involved somewhere along the way.

If you’re at the NHM in Helsinki, it’s either the economists or the musicians.

Oooh! I love those! Yay for interesting rocks!

Oooh I love this for you (and hopefully for us if you have any cool facts or pictures to share after 😅 )

Oh, that place is lovely~! That's where the lookout tower is, too, at the top!

Luomus. Favourite place for the kids a few years back. Have fun! Give my best to the Steller's sea cow skeleton.

That's if you are in Helsinki, otherwise my best to whatever stuff(ed) they have!

This is ironic considering Finnish spelling is phonetic

spelling is only phonetic if it's from phoenicia otherwise it's just sparkling sounds

Is it the place with the doughnuts? I wanna say Iikaaliinnen?

Jyväskylä Harju water tower 😀

Lovely ♡

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Thanks for exploring the lesser known towns. Are you planning to go further up north?

Alas, no. I’m at the convention in Jyväskylä, and it’s awesome!

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