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Puffin close
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Puffling
Bob, Darwin, and puffling
Bob and puffling
John's dramatic rescue
John's puffling
The boxes arrive
Puffling central
Weighing the pufflings
Puffling in a bowl
Measuring wing length
The release
Bob's big release
Puffling handoff
Puffling take-off - unsuccessful
Puffling take-off - unsuccessful
Dead puffling at the pier
Giant puffin
Giant puffin
Another giant puffin
Bob and a giant puffin
Puffin breakthrough
Atlantic puffin (Fratercula arctica)
Family: Alcidae (auks, murres, guillemots, and puffins)
Keflavic airport
Iceland
September 3, 2019
Canon 7Dmark2
Bob with puffin hat
Bob with puffin hat
Sirkus
Formal puffin
Guillemot
Guillemot
Guillemot
Black guillemot (Cepphus grylle)
Family: Alcidae (auks, murres, guillemots, and puffins)
Iceland
September 11, 2019
Canon 7Dmark2
Guillemot
Ptarmigan on the rocks
Ptarm again
Ptarmigan close
Fulmar
Whooper
Whooper
Whopper swan (Cygnus cyngus)
Family: Anatidae (ducks, geese, swans)
Iceland
September 12, 2019
Canon 7Dmark2
Whoopers in flight
Whopper swan (Cygnus cyngus)
Family: Anatidae (ducks, geese, swans)
Iceland
September 8, 2019
Canon 7Dmark2
Whoopers on the run
Whopper swan (Cygnus cyngus)
Family: Anatidae (ducks, geese, swans)
Iceland
September 9, 2019
Canon 7Dmark2
Swan and cygets in the rain
Whopper swan (Cygnus cyngus)
Family: Anatidae (ducks, geese, swans)
Iceland
September 11, 2019
Canon 7Dmark2
What's the question
Anser profiled
Questioning look
Iceland Re ducks
Eider one
Catching oysters
European gold
Gulls on the rocks
Dumpster gull
Glaucous
Print
Gull
Iceland
September 10, 2019
Canon 7Dmark2
Done
Raven
Electric eagle
Snow bunting
Redwing
Vulgar birds
Pigeon strut
Face of rock
Mammals
Beluga
Beluga
Bob's beluga encounter
Wendy's beluga encounter
2 seals
Harbor Seal (Phoca vitulina)
Family: Phocidae (true seals)
Jokulsarlan Lagoon
Iceland
September 7, 2019
Canon 7Dmark2
Horses
Horse
Horse nursing
Two horses
Stallion
Hippy horse
Horse tales
Horse calling
Having more fun?
Sheep
Sheep in the grass
Sheep in the grass
2 sheep
Sheep face
Black ram
Sheep in foliage
Sheep in foliage
Well, obviously
Cat
Moth
Lichen
What grey reindeer eat
Lichen ()
Family:
Iceland
September 16, 2019
Canon 7Dmark2
Lichen on rock
Lichen ()
Family:
Iceland
September 16, 2019
Canon 7Dmark2
Lichens on rock
Lichen ()
Family:
Iceland
September 10, 2019
Canon 7Dmark2
Fungi
Shaggy
Shaggy
Close shag
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Family:
Glaumbær, Iceland
September 11, 2019
Canon 7Dmark2
Flora
Lake balls
Carnivore
Sea Campion (Silene uniflora)
Family: Caryophyllaceae (pink family)
Námafjall geologically active region
Iceland
September 9, 2019
Canon 7Dmark2
The alchemist
Growth on lava
Heather
Ground cover
Yarrow
Birch bark
Birch trunk
Downy birch (Betula pubescens)
Family: Betulaceae (birch family - alders, birches, hazels)
Iceland
September 7, 2019
Canon 7Dmark2
Birch trunk in fall
Birch leaves in fall
Fall colors
Iceland
September 9, 2019
Canon 7Dmark2
Misc
Free as a bird - with strings attached
Bird
Cemetery
Glaumbær, Iceland
September 11, 2019
Canon 7Dmark2
Some lists
Orders of birds depicted
Accipitriformes - white-tailed eagle
Anseriformes - whooper swan, graylag goose, mallard
Procellariiformes - northern fulmar
Charadriiformes - Atlantic puffin, black guillemot, black-headed gull, great black-backed gull, lesser black-backed gull, European golden plover
Columbiformes - rock dove
Galliformes - rock ptarmigan
Passeriformes - redwing, European starling, common raven
Acknowledgements
With tremendous thanks to Wendy for planning the entire trip!
Wendy also kept meticulous written and photographic records that I have taken liberties to copy.
To Syler and Cynda - for travel and photographic advice
To some of my fellow Iceland sojourners who greatly enhanced the experience,
including John and Joan Holland
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Created: October 2, 2019 (from iceland2019.hmtl)
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