Although most of the King Penguins, Aptenodytes patagonicus, on the Falkland Islands are found in the breeding colony at Volunteer Point, East Falkland, single birds
Author: Liz Leyden
![Macaroni Penguin, standing.](https://www.lizworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/Macaroni-Penguin-SLI.jpg)
A solitary Macaroni Penguin, Eudyptes chrysolophus, standing in a Southern Rockhopper Penguin colony on Sea Lion Island, in the Falkland Islands. Macaroni Penguins mostly breed
![A Gentoo Penguin looking contemplative while standing on a sandy beach.](https://www.lizworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/Contemplative-Gentoo.jpg)
I was lucky enough to spend two weeks on the Falkland Islands in late November – early December 2022. I visited four islands, plus the
![Paddyfield being worked with oxen](https://www.lizworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Paddyfield.jpg)
Sepia-toned photograph of two men and two oxen ploughing a paddy in central Madagascar.
![Thinking Pods, Scottish Parliament Building](https://www.lizworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/Thinking-Pods.jpg)
Thinking pods, contemplation areas for Members of the Scottish Parliament.
![A Blue Tit on Hawthorn Berries](https://www.lizworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/BlueTit_Berries.jpg)
A Blue Tit, Cyanistes caeruleus, perched on a twig with hawthorn berries.
![African Hoopoe feeding grub to chick](https://www.lizworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/African-Hoopoe.jpg)
African Hoopoe feeding chick in Amboseli National Park, Kenya.
![Gray Whale](https://www.lizworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/Gray-Whale.jpg)
Close up of a friendly Gray / Grey Whale in Laguna San Ignacio, Baja California, Mexico.
![Male Eurasian Bullfinch](https://www.lizworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/Bullfinch.jpg)
A beautiful male Eurasian Bullfinch in winter, perched on a Fuchsia shrub in my front garden.
![Guillemots](https://www.lizworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/Guillemots.jpg)
A few Common Guillemots / Murres from the Breeding colony on the Farne Islands off Northumbria.
![Large bull African Elephant in musth](https://www.lizworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/African-Elephant-Musth.jpg)
A large Bull African Elephant, in musth, mock-charging: KrugerNP, South Africa.
![Two Olive Baboons copulating](https://www.lizworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/Sex-on-the-Beach.jpg)
Two Olive Baboons, copulating in a lugga in Buffalo Springs National Reserve, part of the Samburu complex of reserves in northern Kenya.