{"id":2645,"date":"2024-10-25T11:43:00","date_gmt":"2024-10-25T10:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.birdinginspain.com\/blog\/?p=2645"},"modified":"2024-10-22T11:44:20","modified_gmt":"2024-10-22T10:44:20","slug":"birding-brief-midusmmer-iceland-tour-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.birdinginspain.com\/blog\/birds-in-spain\/birding-brief-midusmmer-iceland-tour-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Birding Brief: Midusmmer Iceland Tour 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"

Iceland Birding by Birding In Spain<\/p>\n

\"Birds

Birds of Iceland poster<\/em><\/p><\/div>\n

Here is a brief look at our Midsummer Iceland Tour 2024<\/strong><\/p>\n

5 participants<\/strong> all from the USA<\/p>\n

\"Picnic

Picnic on our Summer Iceland Birding Tour<\/em><\/p><\/div>\n

Dates<\/strong>: 9th to 16th June 2024<\/p>\n

68 bird species<\/strong> encountered<\/p>\n

Mammals<\/strong>: Humpback Whale, Harbour Porpoise, Minke Whale<\/p>\n

\"Guesthouse

Loa’s nest: one of our guesthouses in Iceland<\/em><\/p><\/div>\n

Birding highlights:<\/em><\/p>\n

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  • Snow Buntings singing from the roofs on Flatey Island<\/li>\n
  • Roadside Rock Ptarmigans in the north<\/li>\n
  • Large numbers of Pink-footed Goose in the north<\/span><\/li>\n
  • A host of wetland birds at Myvatn Lake<\/li>\n
  • The only Black-throated Diver in Iceland<\/li>\n
  • Three White-tailed Eagles on one morning<\/li>\n
  • Breeding Br\u00fcnnich’s Guillemots in a howling gale<\/li>\n
  • Watching summer plumaged Slavonian Grebes diving in clear water<\/li>\n
  • Watching delightful spinning Red-necked Phalaropes<\/li>\n
  • Great Northern Divers in full breeding plumage <\/span><\/li>\n
  • Puffins off shore and from the ferry to Flatey<\/li>\n
  • Displaying waders in our guesthouse garden<\/li>\n
  • Great weather for a picnic<\/span><\/li>\n
  • Whale-watching as good as ever<\/li>\n
  • Spectacular waterfalls adorned with Ravens and Fulmars<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
    \"Atlantic

    Atlantic Puffin, Iceland Birding Tour<\/em><\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Iceland Birding by Birding In Spain Here is a brief look at our Midsummer Iceland Tour 2024 5 participants all from the USA Dates: 9th to 16th June 2024 68 bird species encountered Mammals: Humpback Whale, Harbour Porpoise, Minke Whale Birding highlights: Snow Buntings singing from the roofs on Flatey Island Roadside Rock Ptarmigans in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birds-in-spain"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7I752-GF","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.birdinginspain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2645","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.birdinginspain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.birdinginspain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdinginspain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdinginspain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2645"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdinginspain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2645\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2673,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdinginspain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2645\/revisions\/2673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.birdinginspain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdinginspain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdinginspain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}