Lemming Massacre (Not for the Sensitive)

There were dead lemmings everywhere and also quite a lot of live ones too. The little pile of furry corpses on top of the rock appears to be a buzzard dining room since there were more piles of fluff on the ground all around it.

Myth not correct - no sign of lemmings running off cliffs, in fact Snopes suggests that disney staged some footage in the 1950s <http://www.snopes.com/disney/films/lemmings.asp>

Since winter was long and hard this year, the lemmings had ages to breed under the snow so their population has exploded this year. This means it is a good year for the ptarmingan - they don't eat lemmings but it means predators can gorge on lemmings instead of ptarmigan chicks.

On some bits of paths (like the bottom photo) there were little dead things everywhere. They also seemed to mostly be lying on their backs with their little paws in the air and big
sticky-out teeth like cartoon dead mouse. They're hard to pick out but most of the dark-coloured blobs in this picture are lemmings.