The last week has been a big adventure helping Jacob, a catalonean sea bird expert, doing measurements and marking of shearwaters (Puffinus puffinus - skrofa á íslensku). This is a bird related to fulmar (fýll) but they dig burrows where they lay their eggs in a similar way as puffins do and inbetween puffin burrows. So we climbed Ystiklettur again on Sunday and stayed in the hut until yesterday... so 5 days without a shower and toilet.... We had to dig into the burrows to find the birds and when captured we marked and measure them and the eggs, blood samples and parasites were also taken, painfully unpleasant for the poor birdies to be sprayed on with pesticide and then massaged for 7 minutes to get the parasites off. In Iceland, shearwaters only breed in Ystiklettur in the Westman Islands and then they migrate to Brazil. We put geolocators on some of the birds which will allow tracking of their travel route, hopefully they wont fall off... This trip was sadly not just fun since I found a flea in my bed and now Im covered in fleabites... YUCK... And the big amount of bird poo piling up on us was not the most pleasant thing I have encountered but at least it did not smell as bad as fulmar puke. It was actually hillarious to watch the others get pooed on :) Now I will enjoy few "relaxing" days in Reykjavík...