7-27-10 Continuing down Highway 1 near the volcanos, we took a picture of the Seljalandsfoss waterfall. You can walk around behind it. We saw gray and white Kittiwakes nesting in the rocks around it.
Seljalandsfoss Falls
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Look at the little people
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We drove down many country roads in the area of the Eyjafjallajökull volcano. We noticed that Red-Throated Loons seemed to like the solitude that the volcanic ash clogged fields provided. Also among the ashes we saw the Great Skua with offspring, the Common Loon, many Oystercatchers and the ubiquitous Arctic Tern.
The water running thru the eruption site was clogged with gray silt. At one point we stopped our car when a Black-Tailed Godwit started walking close to us. I took out the digital camera and took this photo. The bird was about 15 feet away.
Black-Tailed Godwit
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In many places in Iceland there are what are called "Sea Stacks". These are vertical land formations formed by tidal erosion, leaving enormous stone islands just off shore. On these we saw Greater Black-Backed Gulls and Kittiwakes nesting.
Black Sand Beach at Dyrhólaey
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Sea Stacks at Dyrhólaey
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Rock Islands at Dyrhólaey
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-Robert
(photos by bshelton and rfowler)
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