Fulmar

Another super, warm, sunny day - and it was still sunny, although not that warm, when I got home from work. Took Ollie and my camera and went down to the cliff top. The things I do for blip - leaning over the edge, trying to catch a shot of the fulmars wheeling and soaring all around me. There must be a knack to shooting fast moving birds - out of 89 shots, there were only half a dozen decent ones in focus!

This is what the RSPB have to say about fulmars:-
Almost gull-like, this grey and white seabird is related to the albatross. It flies low over the sea on stiff wings, with shallow wingbeats, gliding and banking to show its white underparts then grey upperparts. At its breeding sites it will fly high up the cliff face, riding the updraughts. They will feed in flocks out at sea. They defend their nests from intruders by spitting out a foul-smelling oil.

So now you know! And we have hundreds of them . . . . .!