Long-delayed summer 2026 photos

I’ve been lax in posting my photos here. So here you have about two months’ worth of pictures from around Hveragerði. It’s a lot. I apologise in advance.

Since I’m guessing many of you have had a somewhat stressful day like I did, here are a few photos of a redwing out and about doing its thing.

I’m getting a little bit more comfortable with saturated colours in my photographs.

This common redshank was very dissatisfied with my presence, which most likely means the nest was nearby

Bonus horsie.

Horse doing horsie things.

So, this is Gríma. She lives next to the spot of grass that serves double duty as the town official football field and the overflow for the local campsite on busy days in the summer.

Don’t know this dog’s name but it seemed to be having a good day.

Big yawn.

This hen was out and about earlier this week.

This blackbird had its beak full of worms and insects. It had to do that thing where you stop in your tracks and shuffle things around a bit so as to not drop your groceries.

So this used to be the power station for a wool mill back before there was even a town here in Hveragerði.

Common redshanks very vocally object to your presence in their territory.

The horses were surrounded by a beautiful landscape and a mass of flies. And a bunch of starlings, young and old, snacking on the flies.

Another one for the “bird on a fence post” files. This time a starling.

So, when the weather is nice my neighbour Grása, this longhaired grey and white cat, likes to nap outside in the overgrown grass by one of the trees in the garden.

My walks and Grása’s have been crossing paths lately.

Goldcrests are the smallest and shiest birds we have here in Iceland. I managed to spot some movement, couldn’t see clearly even when zoomed in, but after cropping in on the extreme zoom, lo and behold, a goldcrest.

This here is here is a bird called “Jaðrakan” in Icelandic or the black-tailed godwit in English. There’s a pair that seems to nest every year somewhere between the golf course and the horticultural school.

Foggy pasture.

The model today is my neighbour Lukka, a very friendly black and white cat.