Svalbard phalaropes, snow buntings, and king eiders

This video says about itself:

A Red (Grey) Phalarope in Recherchefjord, Svalbard, 23 June 2014. Footage taken with an iPhone 4S through Swarovski STS80 spotting scope, with a Kowa TSN-IP4S adapter.

Spitsbergen, 3 June 2013.

As I wrote, we did not see ivory gulls at the eider duck nesting colony.

So, we continued to the east, into the Adventdalen valley.

Still much ice on the water, though it has started to melt.

A female grey phalarope. With phalaropes, females are more colourful than males. The males do the breeding and they care for the chicks.

Pink-footed geese.

And, of course, Svalbard would not be Svalbard without snow buntings flying around and singing.

Purple sandpipers.

Also male and female king eider ducks, on the southern side of the road, far away.

On the northern side of the road, a lake with two red-throated divers swimming.

In this lake, also male and female king eiders, along with common eiders.

And a male long-tailed duck.

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