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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Reader" data-source="post: 1664427" data-attributes="member: 234">Thanks for that James.That makes sense as we saw one on a post a few minutes earlier then it flew off.  This must have been the same bird that suddenly flew past the car.Something a bit different now.  Pelagic birds.I had a very hard time photographing these birds.  The sea conditions were so rough that I actually moved away from the top deck because I couldn't photograph anything.  If I tried I either got one of the other birders heads in the way or if I stood up I was in danger of being tipped overboard so I went to the lower deck where I was on my own.  This had two effects.  One, I couldn't hear the guide on what birds were about and two the huge waves were actually going higher than the boat which caused the birds to disappear out of view.  Added to that I was hanging on for dear life and you can see the problems I was having.  The actual Pelagic was aborted early because the conditions were getting too severe and we arrived back at Simonstown just before 2pm after a very lumpy ride back.My problem was I was watching birds that I wasn't certain about and just photographing them.  I am left with a fair few I can work out but I have a few I would like confirmation of.  I will upload those I think are of a particular species on each reply starting with what I think are all Black-browed Albatross. The last one I think is possibly a Juv bird.John</blockquote>