Gannets

When Wendy and I were out walking we saw lots of Gannets.  They fly very quickly and dive after fish without notice and they are rarely very close to land so they are hard to photograph.  I did manage a few though:

Formation Flying for Fish

Over the weekend the gannets, gulls, terns, skuas and heaven knows what else were all congregating in the bay below the house. Evidently there were shoals of fish there and the gannets and terns were diving, the gulls picking up what they could and the skuas trying to get anything they could to hand over their catch even if it was already in their stomach. Given that I am a long way from the bay and the gannets in the photo were quite a way out I was pleased to be able to capture these gannets as they dived for food.