Date: Wed, 1 May 2002 21:16:19 EDT Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Robin Todd Subject: Re: Iceland and Greenland Birding Help Requested MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Kyle, Re. your post about Iceland and Greenland, I was in Central East Greenland on a university expedition in August 1971 - so this note will not have much current relevance. But I love any excuse to talk about Greenland. It was the most beautiful place I have ever visited; gorgeous mountains, ice bergs in the fjords of various hues and incredible variety of shapes. Almost no vegetation above ankle high. The only trees were dwarf willows. Very rough terrain (we were hiking and boating). The visibility was so good that everything seemed twice as close as it really was. It was so devoid of people we actually welcomed the sight of the occasional pieceo f trash. I will have to dig out my field notes to recall the birds I saw, but snow buntings, a white phase gyr falcon, lots of auks (alcids) and oldsquaw stick out in my memory. Musk ox were common; incredible shaggy heaps lumbering along. Glimpsed an arctic fox. Mosquitoes were terrible on the tundra; takes loads of repellent (preferably containing DEET). I would love to return, but probably never will. We had a brief stop over in Iceland; gorgeous looking women but the men weren't too friendly (not surprising as we were an unkempt bunch of mountain scramblers). Cannot recall much about the birds. Have a great trip. Regards, Robin Todd ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================