Friday, 7 May 2010

Tour at 13:00

The weather stayed similar for the afternoon tour. We started the tour by stopping by Akurey, one of two Puffing colonies here close to Reykjavík. We then headed out. While we were searching we spotted a lot of birds again, we spotted the same birds plus a few Shearwaters, this time we also saw the Gannet dive to feed a few times. We spotted few Harbour Porpoises during the tour and a Minke Whale was spotted once surfacing pretty close to the boat but then we didn't see it surface again.

 

Tour at 09:00

It was a bit foggy today but visibility was not too bad, the sea conditions were also pretty good. During the tour we spotted quite many birds, none of them were gathering to feed but they were flying around the area Puffins, Guillemots, Fulmars, Kittiwakes, Gannets, Arctic Terns and one Arctic Skua chasing another bird for its catch. During the tour we also spotted few Harbour Porpoises but there was no luck with the bigger whales.