Psilos
Bird Journal |
Monday 17th
April 2006 - page 2 |
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"Seabird
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I think my favourite bird of
the day was the fulmar. A small chunky bird I saw very few on my last
visit and today they were everywhere. Good close views enabled me to
really study them. It was also a delightful though rather difficult
bird to photograph in flight. |
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The Kittiwake,
so called because of its call was also a bird found in high numbers.
What surprised me was their size as they were much smaller and more
slender than I expected them to be. Unlike the other birds that could
regularly be seen flying out to sea these birds kept very close to the
cliffs with not as many opportunities to photogrpah them in flight.
One striking feature of this bird is the tongue. Its bright scarlet
colour really stood out against the snowy white of the plumage. |
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The nest of the kittiwake looked
somewhat more substantial. |
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Birds such as Razorbills and
Puffins were much more difficult to photograph in flight as they never
came very close. The photos I did manage to get where from quite a distance. |
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The coast line of Bempton is
very dramatic. The photo below shows a ruin that juts out into the sea
and is now being used by nesting gannets. |
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All in all we had a very good
day. For most of the time the weather kept fine and we had the opportunity
to photograph birds which ordinarily we never come across. |
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