Our first sighting of land sinceleaving Buenos Aries. The Falkland Islands. Owing to bad weather on our approach our time here was reduced from 8 hrs to 4 hrs. None the lsee we got som pretty nice photographs.
Antarctic Prion (above). Magellenic Penguin colony (below).
Below: female Kelp Goose.
Below: Male Kelp Goose.
Below: Falkland Steamer Duck
Below: Falklands Steamer Duck
Below: juvenile Austral Thrush.
Below: One of my target birds of the trip; Long tailed Meadowlark (Male)
Below: The Trip Photographer himself, Mr Mark Gibson, enjoying a pint of John Smiths in the Globe Tavern, Port Stanley.We leave for Antarctica this evening...
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