Barrow's Goldeneye ~ Iceland - 30.06.14

This species wasn't going to be tried for in this trip, but after 2 good days on the Snaefellsnes Peninsula we talked ourselves into it !!

So after a few hours sleep we started off at 03:00am it was a 440km drive and about 51/2 hrs !!!

I thought that the chances of finding a bird was slim, and at most a few birds in total at distance, how wrong was I ..

We had only driven part way around the lake when we found a flock of 100+ birds on one side of the road and 3 odd birds on a smaller lake on the other side of the road ..

The 3 birds were tried and they just swam out to the opposite side of the lake, crossing back over the road to another bay we found a smaller flock c.30 birds which stayed close to the bank ...

This was on the 848 just past the turning to Skutustadhir ...

Lat .. 65.573222

Lon .. -16.951143

Barrow's Goldeneye

We had a good seesions with the flock before they all fell asleep so we moved on, returning later and finding all the birds had gone ...

A great day with the Barrow's as a bonus for the trip, we started back about 4ish and stopped a few times striking it lucky ...