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Kvadehuken | 29 July 2010 16:00 |
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| Kvadehuken is a Dutch name meaning "bad corner". It is the beautiful tip of the peninsula. A large plane with a desolate landscape. Patterned ground and a few lakes. Thomas and Elise have seen quite some geese in this area and today I go counting them together with Elise. To read the rings of the geese, I dress myself as a stone. We count 189 adult geese including 10 families with in total 20 goslings. | ||
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| Vegetated plots on the stone plain | An old runway of an airport. | Polygons or stone circles. The effect of running and freezing water in the permafrost. |
| Green spots on the stones called skua mounts. Usually started with a carcass of a reindeer which provides shelter and nutrients enough to start a vegetation. Skua's use the small mounts as view point and add with their faeces to the nutrients. Below a skua mount with arctic skua. | ||
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Pictures above Elise Biersma facebook album, below Maarten Loonen | ||
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