A visit to @rspb.bsky.social Bempton Cliffs may not have been the best idea with the windy conditions but we did see #Gannets. No puffins to be seen yet.
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A quick trip to Dieppe and some gannets to escort us home. My favourite seabird. #newhaventoDieppe #gannets #dieppe #frenchmarket
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Tour #Scotland travel photograph and video Blog, with #Scottish fiddle music, of #Gannets on the #Island Of #Boreray, #Gaelic: Boraraigh, an uninhabited island, on visit and small group trip to #archipelago of #St #Kilda, #North #Atlantic tour-scotland-photographs.blogspot.com/2021/08/gann...
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It’s been an age since i posted for #seabirdsunday i was up at Troup Head last week & its great to see the #gannets starting to come back on the cliffs with some courtship behaviour starting. Check out the colour change in the pupil of one of the pair (as a result of its exposure to bird flu)!
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#Scotland #Gannets #SeabirdHunt
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Lovely to see the Gannets coming back to the nesting grounds @rspb.bsky.social #BemptonCliffs at the weekend. This pair were greeting each other back to their nest with some "sky-pointing" & "fencing" (beak rubbing)
#BirdOfTheDay #Birds #Gannets #Nature #Wildlife #EastCoastKin #ThePhotoHour
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Gannet was so glad and so grateful to have met her soul mate. She’d waited a long time for a perfect match and knew in every fibre of her being this was it. She could tell because she was completely herself and knew she was overwhelmingly, beautifully and unconditionally loved.
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Here @ghostdiveart.bsky.social I heard you wanted some #gannets
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This closeup-free image-not our photo-shows a pair of Northern Gannets from their necks up. The bottom edges of their necks are white, but beautiful colour soon appears as you follow the graceful curve up & over their heads: a soft peach, fading to white again just above their eyes, which have a turquoise rim around them. Their faces have fine black lines that almost look drawn-outlines that begin just behind their eyes & extend along their long, grey beaks. They’re extraordinarily beautiful birds to look at, but please do read the Wiki article to learn just what incredible feats they are capable of…and more. Now, about today’s Music rec: “Wild Is The Wind” is the title song from a dramatic film made back in the 1950s (I think). I chose it because these Gannets are often seen covering wild, windswept rock-faces by the sea, clinging on as they nest there. I recommended Johnny Mathis’ original version, as that’s the one I first heard & still love: he sings it so beautifully-with tenderness, passion & w/a perfect musical arrangement. However, if/when you go to find it on a streaming service, you’ll discover this song’s such a classic that many famous artists have covered it: David Bowie, Nina Simone:& George Michael, to name but a few. If you prefer Bowie, I’d rec. the version of him singing it live at Glastonbury. We watched this on iPlayer-there’s a long intro before he appears onstage-wearing a gorgeous Alexander McQueen brocade jacket-& begins to sing. The crowd goes wild. Bowie’s take is very unique, his strong voice rises to extremes of high pitch then dives deeply low. It’s very Bowie, full of passion but reimagined, far from Mathis’ original. My sole complaint is that he leaves off the last line, fading out as the crowd erupts. We heard George Michael’s-his beautiful voice captures the song’s tenderness, poignancy & passion but leaves a long instrumental end. You may be a fan of Nina Simone or other great artists. Your choice. I❤️Johnny Mathis’ original🥰-tam💞
Closeup of a pair of Northern #Gannets
More about these extraordinary diving #seabirds who meet & breed on steep rockfaces of #coastal & island cliffs: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norther...
#Love #Nature #birds #Romantic #Wild ❤️🔥
#music rec🎵Wild Is The Wind🎵-Johnny Mathis (but pls read ALT for more…)
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it is time to stop capturing and murdering wild birds, eaten by a few people, in an antiquated ritual, to enhance their notions cultural identity. #Gannets
it is time to stop murdering the wild Haggis, for similar reasons. #Haggis
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Stop the Guga bird hunt. In a world of collapsing biodiversity this tradition makes no sense. Please sign and help it be confined to history. #gannets #biodiversity #birds petitions.parliament.scot/petitions/PE...
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One of the birds I like photographing while in flight, and not easy to get good pictures with more than one in the same frame: Northern Gannets, seen from Breezy Point in December 2025. They are so lovely and graceful! #northerngannet #gannets #birds #birdinflight #birdwatching
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Breezy Point, Queens: Northern Gannet, flyover, majestic yet graceful ❤️ #northerngannet, #gannets #birds #birdwatching #wildlife
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The mass slaughter of gannets on Sula Sgeir - the Guga Hunt - controversially returned this year. Have a read of my article and let me know what you think.
bellacaledonia.org.uk/2025/12/29/t...
#environment #conservation #gannets #seabirds #NatureScot #protectthewild
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Winter shot of the Bass Rock, North Berwick, East Lothian
I rather like the occasional winter shot of the #BassRock, #NorthBerwick #EastLothian - now that we’ve reached the longest day of the year it’s only 8-10 weeks until the #gannets are back
#seabirds #seabird #gannet #northerngannet
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While I don't mind the winter too much, as it tends to offer up some interesting atmospheres to work with, I do enjoy all the opportunities that arise during #springtime
For example this gannet at #Bemptoncliffs
#seabirds #gannets #cliffs #wildlife #nature #wildlifephotography #ukwildlife
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Gannet at RSPB Bempton Nature Reserve, East Yorkshire, UK #birds #gannets #seabirds #RPSB #RPSBBemptonCliffs #eastyorkshire #wildlife #coast #yorkshirewild
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Ik heb ooit een blog geschreven over van vreemde vogels naar relevante volgers. Enjoy! Past mooi bij de fotochallenge. #14vreemdevogels
siteseeingmetsia.nl/index.php/bl...
#DDfoto #birds #gannets #birding #birdphotography #52frames_nature #gulls #instagram
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I have #gannets for my #birdoftheday but they’re terrible shots. 😭 They were lifers, though, and it was great to cross them off my list. 🪶
#birds
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Photo of a gannet flying with a beak full of grass. The bird is photographed against a blurred sea / sky horizon. It is angled so that its white underside and wings with their black ends are facing the camera but its head is twisted giving a side on view of its orange neck, white crown, blue eye and dagger like beak full of long grass
Photo of a several gannets. The main subject is hovering over its mate which is on its nest at the top of a cliff. The hovering bird has a beak full of grass which its partner is reaching up for. The nesting site is crowded with 2 other birds on nests touching the one reaching up and other birds mostly off picture, making it difficult for the hovering bird to land
Bempton 2025 = unlimited #Gannets 💙
No shortage of nesting material to be had but delivery's a bit tricky when it's this crowded.
Canon R5 300mm f/6.3 1:4000s ISO320 -1EV
#BirdOfTheDay #Birds #UKBirding #EastCoastKin #ArtYear #smArtist #nature
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I claim my bonus points for #Gannets on #BirdOfTheDay! What a great set of images from you Rob. Were they from Bempton?
#Birds
#BirdingScotland
#BirdTherapy
#UKwildlife
#NatureCantWait
#StateofNature2023
#wildlifephotography
#EastCoastKin
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Large mostly white sea bird is perched on the edge of a small rocky island. He is preening.
Two years ago we joined an Ocean Society tour to the Farallon Islands where Morris, a very special Northern Gannet happened to be that day.💚
Our tour's naturalist was Michael Pierson & there's a short film about him & Morris here...
www.rhyswatkinphotography.com/films
#Gannets #BirdOfTheDay #Birds
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According to Rob it's time for today's #BirdOfTheDay theme which is #Gannets, interpret it how you see it (bonus for actual Gannets).
Have a nice evening everyone 🙋♀️
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Playing along with today's #BirdOfTheDay theme, which is #Gannets.
Until very recently I wouldn't have had anything to share, but I got a few pics on a recent pelagic birding adventure. Here's a Northern Gannet getting the hell out of Dodge.
#birds #marinelife #photography
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A juvenile Cedar Waxwing perched in a pokeberry bush. It's in the process of swallowing a shiny black berry. Around it are a mix of green and black panicles of berries on purple-red stems and green leaves.
So many berries, so little time. 🪶
Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #Gannets, interpret it how you see it (bonus for actual Gannets).
Today I also learned gannet is a slang term for glutton. (Thanks @robcrank68.bsky.social )
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Gannets launching themselves from the cliffs of the Bass Rock to go fishing. Landing on return is a bit less elegant. More of a crash landing.
Note the bird in the centre of this trio. Gannets that have survived a highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) infection have a permanent eye colour change, with their usually pale blue irises turning black or mottled. This change is a visible marker of recovery and suggests the birds are developing immunity to the virus. It is also proving to be a useful, non-invasive tool for scientists to monitor the effects of the disease on wild populations.
Gannet head shot.
Gannets mate for life returning each year to the same nesting spot. They have one chick, called a guga. So recovery will inevitably be slow but at least there is immunity to HPAI building within the population.
Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #Gannets. These are Northern Gannets (Morus bassanus) on the Bass Rock off the East Coast of Scotland. Colony impacted by highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI). Down by 25-30%. More information in ALT. #Birds 🪶 #Photography #Nikon @seabirdcentre.bsky.social
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Gannets are large, white seabirds with yellowish heads and black-tipped wings. They are known for their distinctive, streamlined shape with a long neck, pointed beak, and long, pointed wings, and they have a wingspan of about 2 meters. You can often hear them before you see them, as they are noisy and their dives make a loud impact.
Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #Gannets, interpret it how you see it (bonus for actual Gannets).
And the Alternative is #BlueTits (Birds Not Humans 😂) set by @robcrank68.bsky.social ~ think I get bonus points today for actual Gannets 😎 🪶 🦉 #birdingwales #ukbirding #seabirds #photography #ukwildlife
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