Tag: birding

Grimsey photography

https://vimeo.com/171764848 Video number 5 in our "Behind the lens" series is taken in Grimsey which is an island in north Iceland at 66 degrees north....

Reunion with a family of common mergansers after nine years

The common merganser (North American) or goosander (Eurasian) (Mergus merganser) is not so common in Iceland as the name suggests. The population is less...
Photographing ptarmigans

Getting really close

  Ptarmigans are rather easy to find in Iceland when you are not hunting them. The ptarmigan (lagopus muta) is very common and is the...
Falcon in Iceland

Bird photography in Iceland

This photo of a gyrfalcon in Iceland is taken in July, 2013.  The camera body is Nikon D3 and the lens is Nikon 500...