Mícheál
Well-known member
Hi all,
I photographed this Gannet among a small plunge-diving Gannet flock of c 40 Northern Gannets on the west Sligo coast this evening (north-west Ireland) about 2 hours before sunset.
This bird flew through the flock and just kept going east. These photos are fair and representative images of the views I had of it, which were mostly through the camera viewfinder. The key features I have noted are the extreme darkness of the dark chocolate-brown upperparts, the dark half-collar, the uniformly dark secondaries & tail, and the dark underwing coverts.
One of the photos shows it silhouetted from the rear & in close proximity to a juvenile Northern gannet for size comparison.
Have you ever seen a Northern Gannet that looked like this?
Thoughts and suggestions welcome.
Mícheál Casey
I photographed this Gannet among a small plunge-diving Gannet flock of c 40 Northern Gannets on the west Sligo coast this evening (north-west Ireland) about 2 hours before sunset.
This bird flew through the flock and just kept going east. These photos are fair and representative images of the views I had of it, which were mostly through the camera viewfinder. The key features I have noted are the extreme darkness of the dark chocolate-brown upperparts, the dark half-collar, the uniformly dark secondaries & tail, and the dark underwing coverts.
One of the photos shows it silhouetted from the rear & in close proximity to a juvenile Northern gannet for size comparison.
Have you ever seen a Northern Gannet that looked like this?
Thoughts and suggestions welcome.
Mícheál Casey
