Wildlife update ( 3 ) Jeremy Young , January 21 , 2013
As Frances and Colin have mentioned we have moved north away from the ice into stormier but slightly warmer water – the temperature is about 3 ° C rather than around 0 ° C . The whales and penguins obviously preferred the ice margin but albatrosses and more importantly from our point of view the microscopic phytoplankton seem to prefer it here .
So I have spent most of my time looking down the microscope rather than outside but here are a few images of the most common albatross today the Black-Browned Albatross . They are not as large as the Wandering Albatross but are particularly elegant .
Black-Browned Albatross @ Jeremy Young
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