Sunday bird blogging

We're in the middle of the latest Snowmageddon (though our part of it seems to be more sleet than snow now—I'm not going to go out to investigate) so a penguin seems appropriate. This gentoo was dancing around the whale bones at Mikkelsen Harbor.

Penguin went a-courtin'

If you look closely at this gentoo in Mikkelsen Harbor you can see that he's carrying one of the very important courtship pebbles in his beak.

Whale bones

There were whale bones all over the beach at Mikkelson Harbor, along with the ruins of a wooden boat.

And we are now in Antarctica

Some of the many whale bones on the beach at Mikkelsen Harbor yesterday.

Vertebrae

The beach at Cuverville Island was littered with whale bones. Here's a Gentoo with two enormous vertebrae.