Holyhead, Anglesey, Wales, July 2016.

 Map of Anglesey, with Holyhead Island and South Stack off the west coast, and Langefni in the center. Where I'm headed to see Charles Tunnicliffe's bird studies.

 Typical seacoast strata at Holyhead.

 An unknown bird's nest. Anyone know?

 Bronze Age(?) settlement, Holyhead.

Penros Feilw Standing Stones, with Holyhead Mtn, 7/12. Possible burial site.

South Stack Seabird colony, Holyhead, Wales, July 2016

 Guillemots on a ledge, 7/12.

 Razorbills.

Only a few Atlantic Puffins left, post breeding season.

 Mostly Guillemots on one section of cliff, South Stack. The sound so earthy, it seemed unearthly!

 Razorbill in flight.

Guillemot, Puffin, and Razorbill in underwater flight, painted by Philip Snow at the South Stack
RSPB Visitors Center.

Holyhead Wales, July 2016

 First campsite in Wales, the ferry terminal at Holyhead, 7/11.(Later heard it is the most dangerous place in Wales. Something to do with the Irish Mafia? using this place as a transit hub?) I slept well.

 Met my first local.

 Sheep land, en route to South Stack.

South Stack, a famous seabird breeding site on Holyhead Island.

Trip to Europe, July 2016, England.

 My first English bird seen, a Wood Pigeon in London!

 My first Red Kite, soaring over Basingstoke.

My old friends Gillian and Steve Barlin, who I met and traveled with in Kenya 30 years ago and hadn't seen since.

One of Gill's local hiking areas.

North Eastern Utah, June 2016.

 Yellow headed blackbird, 6/22.

 Greater Sandhill crane with newborn chick, 6/22.

 Chick about to cross highway 191, South of Flaming Gorge.

 Crossing!

....and miraculously made it, despite the oblivious speeding drivers!