A crowd of gannets around the islet of Ortac on a summer day from a passing ferry. The rock is brown, with a cap of white guano. The birds are mostly white.

A line of white seabirds against a blue sea

A white and yellow seabird with black wing tips at a sharp angle inches over a blue sea.

Today's #BirdOfTheDay is the #Gannet, and so a sequence of images from a ferry passing the colony on Ortac, an islet near Alderney.

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