Even wintry storms along the bleak Bering Sea shores do not drive these birds from the lonely islands. Only ice forces these hardy fishermen further south and then only as far as open water. Bent says that on Walrus Island amid all the noise, clatter and confusion of Murres, Auklets and Puffins, the stolid REDFACES sat unmoved — pictures of dignified indifference. They were on good terms with their noisy nabors as feathered bishops might be, calmly surveying the congregation.
Pribilof, Aleutian and Commander Islands, Bering Sea.