Well that is week 14 been and gone, and with it the first group of Glasgow University students. In their place we received another 5 Glasgow Uni students and 5 students/volunteers on the EU funded Desire placement. This is the placement that I was on in 2009 and that originally introduced me to Skálanes and Iceland.
So now there are 12 of us living at Skálanes, along with any guests, 4 pigs, chickens, ducks, the dog and the 4 cows who have been allowed out of Stalag Skálanes now that the tern colony has left. Unfortunately despite producing both eggs and chicks it appears that the Tern colony has again failed to get any birds to the fledging stage. It looks like there is a lack of sand-eels and that the majority of chicks were not getting enough food. Unfortunately this is not something that we can manage. It may be that the colony is just too large now to be sustainable with the current food availability. Over time it may fragment and a smaller colony may be able to produce fledglings and survive on the current population of sand-eels.
As well as the students we had 20 ish Portuguese motorcyclists for dinner and 11 of them staying over night. We also had another cruise group into the reserve, with a couple more still to visit us over the next couple of weeks. This week is also the Lunga arts festival in town, with lots of workshops and events. We even had some art students at Skálanes painting a mural on one of our walls based on Icelandic runes. See what you think in the photos below:
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| Arts students and our runic mural |
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| Work in progress |
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| Runic mural |
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