During my stay in Iceland I had the pleasure to photograph the European golden plover several times. Sometimes I started looking for this bird when I heard the doleful, single plover’s call. However the sound informed that the bird is out there somewhere, but finding it was not so easy. When I moved in the direction of the voice very slowly, the plover did not take its wings off  suddenly, as do pheasants to disappear in the distance, but began to walk away slowly, to increase the distance to be safe enough for it. One morning I came across the plover which apparently wanted to be photographed at all costs, instead of the whimbrel which I followed. The plover could not have the nest nearby, as I was walking about along quite busy road, where cars go from time to time. The Eurasian curlew was walking slowly across the meadow along the road so that I could follow it. The plover all the time kept behind me about 10 meters. I was glancing at now and then and frankly speaking I did not know who was actually watched and who was watching this morning. Golden plovers wingspan is about 75 cm and its weigh is about 300 grams. I photographed it always as a single, I never happened to me to see them two at once.
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Islandia - wykaz j.angielski

Iceland  introduction - Great northern loon
1. Great northern loon. 2. Red Crossbill. 3.Common redshank. 4. Harlequin duck. 5. Whimbrel. 6. Great skua. 7. Black-legged kittiwake. 8. Northern fulmar. 9. Northern gannet. 10. Black guillemot. 11. Red-necked phalarope. 12. Horned grebe. 13. Glaucous gull. 14. European golden plover. 15. Northern shoveler. 16. Redwing. 17. Razorbill. 18. Barrow's goldeneye. 19. Parasitic jaeger.  20.Thick-billed murre. 21. Rock ptarmigan. 22. Great black-backed gull. 23. Short-eared Owl. 24. Whales. 25. Manx shearwater. 26. Gadwall. 27.Harbor Seal. 28. Pink-footed goose. 29. Iceland gull.
And changes in the galleries:
1. Red-throated Loon. 2. Puffin. 3. Redwing. 4. Eurasian oystercatcher . 5. Common snipe. 6. Arctic tern. 7. Reindeer. 8. Black-tailed godwit. 9. Common ringed plover. 10. Guillemot 11. Purple sandpiper. 12. Whooper swan.  13. Common eider. 14. Eurasian wigeon.  15. Red-breasted merganser. 16. Greater Scaup. 17. Brant goose.18. Red knot . 19. Dunlin.  20. Tufted duck. 21.Greylag Goose.
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ISLANDIA-06/2018 ANGIELSKI

Iceland 06/2018 –  the introductory text –  Gyrfalcon
1. Gyrfalcon (T,V). 2. Short-eared Owl (T) . 3. Great northern loon (T). 4. Merlin (T). 5. Glaucous gull (T,V). 6. Pink-footed goose (T). 7. Rock ptarmigan (T,V). 8. Harlequin duck (T). 9. Thick-billed Murre (T). 10. Iceland gull (T). 11. Black-tailed Godwit (T). 12. Whimbrel (T). 13. Redwing (T,V). 14. Razorbill (T). 15. Guillemot. 16. Eurasian Wigeon (T). 17. Northern Pintail (T). 18. Red-throated Loon. 19. Black-legged kittiwake. 20. Dunlin. 21. Meadow Pipit. 22. Parasitic jaeger. 23. European golden plover. 24. Common redshank. 25. Horned grebe. 26. Barrow's goldeneye (T). 27. King eider (T). 28. Lesser black-backed gull. 29. Northern Wheatear. 30.Long-tailed jaeger. 31. Arctic Tern. 32.Black-headed Gul.
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HELGOLAND - ANGIELSKI 2020

Heligoland – Germany -09/2020- introductory text - Northern gannet
CHANGES in GALLERIES
BIRDS:
1.Northern gannet (T,V). 2.Bar-tailed godwit (T,V). 3.Sanderling. 4.Northern Wheatear. 5.Eurasian Oystercatcher. 6.Litle stint (T). 7.Dunlin. 8. Red Knot (T). 9.Ruddy Turnstone (V)  10.Carrion crow. 11. Purple Sandpiper (T). 12.Common Starling. 13.Common Ringed Plover. 14.Willow warbler. 15.Meadow Pipit. 16.White Wagtail. 17.European Herring Gull. 18.Black Redstart. 19.Lesser Black-backed Gull . 20. European golden plover.  21.Black-legged kittiwake. 22.Whinchat. 23.Common Eider. 24.Sandwich Tern. 25. Hooded Crow. 26.European Pied Flycatcher.
MAMMALS:
1. Grey seal (T) 2. Harbor seal (T).
IN THE GALERY of COUNTRIES: 1.Heligoland. 2.Germany FAUNA.

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