Puffins on Fuglefjellet. They nest in thousands on the ground on the steep slope and throw themselves into the water from it. In order to get close, you have to climb up to the top.
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[ Post a Comment ]| GlennG | I love Puffins! | | 
Voted 10/10 | They are one of the coolest looking birds to me. Were the birds realitively trusting, or did you sneak up on them? | | Posted Sep 12, 2005 5:39 pm |
 | | Lolli | Re: I love Puffins! | | 
Hasn't voted | I love them too! :-)
They were trusting. I moved slowly, crawling on my stomach, with careful and slow movements and they allowed me to come so close I could almost touch them. But as I didn't want to fall down the brink, I stopped quite close where the photo is taken.
We met a guy up there, a birdwatcher, and he was colourblind. The grass was very green and had the same.. amount of colour(?) as the orange feet of the puffins. When we said something about how very orange the feet were, like plastic, he told us how he at that information suddenly could see the orange, and how the entire slope suddenly became filled with thousands of orange feet. | | Posted Sep 12, 2005 7:05 pm |
| Diggler | I agree that they're very cool-looking birds, but... | | 
Hasn't voted | can you grill them? Maybe a nice honey-mustard glaze. Mmmmmmm... | | Posted Sep 20, 2005 5:46 pm |
| | Lolli | Re: I agree that they're very cool-looking birds, but... | |
Hasn't voted | not bad, they're quite yummy,
but it's very important that you don't burn the skin, wait until the heat of the coals are exactly right, it pays off having patience
and don't fall down the slope, while catching one, it's a hard landing on rocks. | | Posted Sep 20, 2005 6:26 pm |
| | Diggler | Re: I agree that they're very cool-looking birds, but... | |
Hasn't voted | :^)
I try to make it a policy not to fall down the slope, dinner or not! | | Posted Sep 20, 2005 7:37 pm |
| | Lolli | Re: I agree that they're very cool-looking birds, but... | |
Hasn't voted | ;-)
that's very wise of you, 'cause in that case you wouldn't be needing dinner at all | | Posted Sep 20, 2005 8:39 pm |
| | Lolli | Re: I agree that they're very cool-looking birds, but... | |
Hasn't voted | oh, I forgot a minor detail - they're protected
no dinner, sorry. | | Posted Sep 21, 2005 6:25 pm |
| maria grazia s | Very nice shot!!! | | 
Voted 10/10 | I went to Ireland and to Svalbard Islands, some years ago, and I saw some of them..... | | Posted Oct 26, 2005 1:01 pm |
| | Lolli | Re: Very nice shot!!! | |
Hasn't voted | thank you! I think they are so cute, somehow they seem to be more toys than real birds | | Posted Oct 26, 2005 9:26 pm |
| justahiker | Woow!! | | 
Voted 10/10 | Some of my favourite birds!!
Great picture!! | | Posted Sep 6, 2006 11:48 am |
| dória | :) | | Voted 10/10 | amazing! in the right place at the right time. so lovely they are | | Posted May 18, 2007 10:31 pm |
| | Lolli | Re: :) | |
Hasn't voted | :-)
yes, they are really lovely. Somehow, they don't seem real, they're too much toy-alikes | | Posted May 19, 2007 4:49 pm |
| | yatsek | Re: :) | | 
Voted 10/10 | Right you all are. Once one landed close to our boat (Spitsbergen, a few decades ago); there were huge colonies of a bit more ordinary looking, black and white "Alle alle" | | Posted Oct 12, 2008 6:43 am |
| | Lolli | Re: :) | |
Hasn't voted | I like the Alle alle too. It's also a toy bird, but not as colourful. | | Posted Oct 13, 2008 7:06 am |
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