Redshank - Driving down the road from the Bolungarvík golf course is the small lake Syðridalsvatn on one side of the unpaved road, while on the other side and past the lake are several farms. The farm land was a good place to view land birds, while the lake was good to view water foul. I have read that the lake is also a good place for fishing. Beside the ever present Eider duck, I viewed the Gossander duck, Scoup duck, and probably others, but ducks are often difficult to identify. I was also honored to a sighting of a Great Northern Diver.

But the Redshank was certainly fun to watch. It's activity was 3 fold: (1) Perch at the highest possible point, which in Iceland's case is most likely a fence post, (2) When you in a car slowly approach it leaves its perch to fly a loop while singing a repeated cry, and (3) Landing on the unpaved road immediately in front of the car. Then as I inched the car forward the Redshank would toddle (rather than fly) away in hopes of escape. Of course this behavior only occurred while using the car as a blind, go figure!