Spring lambs

Sheep and lamb bottoms, Fljótsdalur at the end of last summer.

Lambs and sheep make the Icelandic and Scottish news today. The first lambs in Iceland were born in the last week in the south of Iceland and red-sheep have been spotted near Bathgate in Scotland. We are getting ready for Easter here now, with thoughts of a trip to the country, chocolate eggs, daffodils which are still not blossoming and roast lamb or perhaps a little chicken.

Markarfljót and Gigjökull

I´ve been helping out on the Geography, University of Edinburgh undergraduate fieldtrip. Students study palaeo-landscape reconstruction, ecological processes, geomorphology and glaciology, among other subjects. The field area, usually along the southern margin of the Markarfljót valley in southern Iceland in an area called Langanes and on two outlet glaciers from the ice-capped volcano Eyjafjallajökull, Steinsholtsjökull and Gigjökull, is one of my favourite places in Iceland. You can read about past flood events in this area, associated in some cases with eruptions of the volcano Katla, on my research page.