On our way out into the fjord, we saw these two waders at some boulders, close to the sea surface.The Purple sandpiper is a wader with a circumpolar distribution. It is part resident bird and part migratory bird. It always breeds in arctic environments, including the Scandinavian mountain range. The birds that nest in the far north move south in the winter and can then be seen, e.g. in coastal Britain and on the European west coast. Some Purple sandpipers, like these two, however, breed in more southern areas and manage to stay there all year round. Presumably this couple is therefore on "home ground"...