Puffins are irresistibly photogenic
This page continues from the
one on Icelandic birds
adding photographs of birds that live on the cliffs at Látrabjarg, and the stacks of black volcanic rock along Snæfellsnes, both of these areas are in north-west Iceland.
The Látrabjarg cliffs are spectacular not just for the shear scale of their 1,400 feet (450 metre) vertical drop, but for the number of birds to which they give home: there are estimated to be some five million breeding pairs here.
Here the birds seem unthreatened by humans...
...maybe because there are few people compared...
...allowing these photos to be...
...to the vast number of birds, so...
A razorbill keeping watch
...taken from a few feet away
The dot (at the top left edge of the picture) is a person on the edge of a 700 foot cliff at Látrabjarg - half the height of the cliffs to the east
Razorbills: the eye showing at the end of the bridle
A group of puffins conversing as house sparrows do
A group of razorbills keeping an eye out from the cliff-top. Although it is hard to distinguish the eyes of these birds
A sea stack its surface covered in gulls' nests
More areas of intense nesting
A kittiwake colony with attendant guillemots
A nesting kittiwake with razorbills close by
Striking shapes are common in this soft volcanic rock offering complex surfaces ideal for nesting
Kittiwakes with chicks of various ages
Stack with cormorants
A pristine fulmur sits on grass by clean rock...
...while guillemots blend into guano covered ledges
A guillemot keeps watch from the cliffs
Trailers...
The next page has
more on these cliffs at Látrabjarg and this particular inhabitant.
The next page
in the Mosaic Section is headed
'Photographers' Haul'.
Or go to the contents of the Mosaic Section.
The last page was on a group of hilltop pagodas in Tĩnh Gia
Go to a page with a selection of Barra wildlife
To a page on the island and terns of Nolsoy in the Farroes
