The sheer number of birds nesting on this rock was overwhelming. People were grumbling about the stench, but I hardly noticed it in my awe of the density of living things in front of me. I'm not going to try to guess what species are here; I don't know my birds very well. The full-size panorama is 6148 by 1331 pixels, so even expanding this image to full size, given blogger's size constraints, results in a tremendous loss of resolution. Below are some crops to illustrate:
Near the middle.
To the right.
To the left. Stunning!
Photo unaltered. July 15, 2014.
FlashEarth Location.
The birds are common murres en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_murre
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