morus bassanus

A cropped image,

I like how they painted the lighthouse the same colour as the gannets

Gannet in flight near the Isle of Little Cumbrae on the west coast of Scotland. Taken from the deck of a yacht under sail.

a pair of gannets at Bempton Cliffs

At large seabird colonies such as Bempton I like to pick out a few groups of birds and spend some time watching them as I find it all too easy to get overwhelmed by the spectacle of such places and come away without having really learnt much. On a recent visit to Bempton I spent a lot of time...

Shortly after pic 2, a third bird arrived, plunge diving a short distance away, before attacking one of the original fighting pair from below. One of the original pair, the middle bird here, then managed to get away, whilst the newly arrived bird and the original one with the head injury then...

Continued from pic 1. After these two birds briefly separated during their fight, I thought one of them might make their escape but instead they just launched themselves at each other again and carried on.

These two Gannets were already fighting when I spotted them on the sea below the cliffs at Bempton, Yorkshire, UK. It seemed to be a particularly vicious encounter that went on for some time. Gannets can be very aggressive birds. The bird on the left already has a head injury but seems to have...

Two birds in love or just a ritualised behaviour enabling them to overcome their natural aggression towards each other?

I have taken this picture at the island Helgoland in May 2014. It was my first stay there, but not the last.

Juvenile gannet flying in Mediteranean Sea.

Amazes me every time you see 50K plus birds along a cliff how they know where to return too.... I find it hard getting back from the pub occasionally lol

Another Bempton lovely

little sense of movement as this bird is hanging on the updraft from the cliffs

these birds have delicate but superb colouring

Not short of Gannets displaying at Bempton, very difficult trying to isolate some

Bempton Cliffs, what an excellent location to practice BIF shots, even better on a bright warm day

Taken just after sunrise at Bempton on Saturday from well over 100 yards away!