Iceland – summer of 2015. Scenery, of course, but many birds and wildlflowers too. A wonderful country.
A short trip report with more photographs and detailed descriptions can be found at this page:
https://sparroworks.ca/wildlifing/iceland-2015/
If you have a particular interest in wild/arctic flowers visit this page:
http://squirrelworks.ca/galleries/Iceland%202015/
Atlantic Puffin
Black-tailed Godwit
Hrisey Island
Gullfoss
Arctic Poppies
Papaver radicatum : These examples were found on the Snaefellsness peninsula
Red-throated Loon
(Red-throated Diver in Europe – same species)
Atlantic Puffin
Thingvellir (Þingvellir)
… site of the first parliament right on the line of the Tectonic plate rift between the North American (on the right) and European (on the left) plates
Just another waterfall
Iceland is full of these … all the spectacular falls are in the guide books, so here one of the less visited examples
Volcanic Landscape
Along the south coast of Iceland – west of Vik
Whimbrel
Botanists at work
Traditional turf-walled farmhouse
Coastal Mountains
North from Hrisy Island on the Akureyri fjord, just south of the Arctic Circle
