Shetland

This is what a Arctic Skua looks like when it's coming straight at you. This one was on Mousa in the Shetlands and was dive bombing us to protect its chicks. At one point it even landed near us and pretended to have a broken wing to attract us away from the nest. I knew Lapwingsdo that but I didn't realise Skuas did as well.
Busy day today producing PDFs as my features library has had some interest from magazines about my work. Also got a meeting with the school about a computer course I'm running at  the village night classes. Take care now.

Iceland

Welcome to Iceland, such a marvellous place. These are the volcanic mud pools bubbling away at Hevri. I just love the smell of sulphur here surrounded by snow capped mountains. 6 a.m. just going to take Doris for a walk. Always have my camera with me now since I saw the black cat on Monday morning. It's amazing after I was on Radio Newcastle how many other people have seen them as well. Three people in Belford have reported it too and all of us never said anything for fear of ridicule!

The Bass Rock

Here we are off the Bass Rock the worlds largest gannetry with 150,000 birds and that's not counting the gulls and puffins. When you land it's quite an amazing site to be so close to them, no more than a yard away. I'll put some images on facebook later on . Anyway a day now of cataloguing images and sorting them out for which pitch to which magazine etc.
Have a great day wherever you are.