Guillemot style of course. Taken at the Staple Islands, Jun 15.
Love is…Guillemot style
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Further shots of my favourite alien like creature – the razorbill. Taken at the Staple Islands, Jun 15.
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The one thing that hits you when you step onto the Staple Islands, apart from the stench and noise and other seabirds, is the vast number of guillemots all closely huddled together on the surrounding cliffs. Perhaps this is a tactic employed to deter predators as you have to look very closely to spot their young. As an adult arrives back from sea with its catch it is initially quite chaotic as they try to find their spot (a needle in a haystack comes to mind). Regularly patrolled by hungry gulls who are after an easy meal, the loud and unique sounding roar of the vast colony as the Gull gets close is magical.
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Here are a few shots of a Serval cat taken at the Cat Survival Trust in Hertfordshire.
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Here are a few head shots of the somewhat strange looking shag taken on Staple Island, Inner Farne.
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Here are further shots of Mandarin ducks taken at the Grand Union Canal near Wendover, Buckinghamshire
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Here are a few shots of puffins with beakfuls of goodies for their hungry pufflings taken on Staple Island, Inner Farne. These puffins were the lucky ones as most returning with beakfuls of sand eels bore the brunt of the much larger and sand eel-thieving gulls. ‘Tis a hard life indeed.
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Here are a few shots of puffins in flight taken at Staple Island, one of the outer group of the Farne Islands in Northumberland, England.
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Here are a few shots of one of the worlds most elusive cats, the superb Snow Leopard. Taken at the Cat Survival Trust in Hertfordshire it would simply not be possible to see such a fantastic looking cat as they tend to be found amongst high rugged mountain landscapes in Asia. Sadly, they are now critically endangered due to the decline of their natural prey (goats, cattle, yaks etc) and the fact that at one point their fur was highly sought after.
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