Brunnich's Guillemots, Uria lomvia
swimming
in the sea off Alkefjellet Svalbard - 2
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Handsome birds which are very difficult to capture in a photograph, especially the black eye against a black background that all too often comes out looking like they have no eye at all.
Photo; © Paul Ward - These are pictures from a cruise around Svalbard inside the Arctic Circle in high summer.