One place I did not want to miss on Spitsbergen was Fuglesangen ('The bird song') at the northwestern tip of the archipelago, beacuse one of Svalbard's largest Little auk (or Dovekie) colonies is situated there. Together with our bird guide, Mike, I climbed high up in the colony and sat down between some rocks. The whole colony of birds seemed to fly up and away, but the birds just stayed in the air for a while, then they returned - and soon a bunch of birds were sitting near us ...