northern gannet

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

These were collecting nesting material tearing up the cliff edge

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Adult Gannet on its nesting cliff.

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...

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...

Rouzic ( Brittany) and its Northern Gannet colony , one of the largest in the world (partial view). June 2015. Thank you very much for all your kind words and comments on my previous post ;)

Courtship behaviour

Collecting nesting material.

The upper bird seems to be offering the lower bird some nesting material. Maybe a wedding present.