I am not a twitcher, but ...
Saturday, July 20th, 2002 18:15![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kittiwakeOn holiday in Iceland, I saw the following birds:
eider duck, fulmar, red-necked phalarope, arctic tern, golden plover, raven, kittiwake, guillemot, arctic skua, puffin, great black-backed gull, white-tailed sea eagle, shag, great northern diver, barrels golden-eye, mallard, scoter, greylag goose, tufted duck, redshank, black-headed gull, slavonian grebe, whooper swan, bittern, widgeon, redwing, oyster catcher, dunlin and a cockerel.
As it was breeding season, I also some good examples of protective parenting:
1) Arctic Terns diving at our heads when we were walking close to their nests.
2) Golden Plover calling loudly, and her chicks scattering in all directions as we passed
3) Mallard pretending to have a broken wing to distract us from her chicks - not very successfully as the chicks were following along about a metre behind her.
eider duck, fulmar, red-necked phalarope, arctic tern, golden plover, raven, kittiwake, guillemot, arctic skua, puffin, great black-backed gull, white-tailed sea eagle, shag, great northern diver, barrels golden-eye, mallard, scoter, greylag goose, tufted duck, redshank, black-headed gull, slavonian grebe, whooper swan, bittern, widgeon, redwing, oyster catcher, dunlin and a cockerel.
As it was breeding season, I also some good examples of protective parenting:
1) Arctic Terns diving at our heads when we were walking close to their nests.
2) Golden Plover calling loudly, and her chicks scattering in all directions as we passed
3) Mallard pretending to have a broken wing to distract us from her chicks - not very successfully as the chicks were following along about a metre behind her.
