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Northern Fulmar - Havhest - Fulmarus glacialis
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Sleipner, 05 February 2007 North Atlantic, May 2008
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Fulmars are one of my favourite birds for all manner of reasons. Their ability to survive, and even enjoy, the foulest of conditions the north sea and waters up to the arctic circle can throw at them, is amazing. This species often seems playful - flying along the insides of "tunnels" in the waves, bugging dogs on the beach or indulging in "hanging" competitions with other fulmars along cliff edges.

Northern Fulmar
 Northern Fulmar, Brent Field, APril 2007
Brent, April 2007, Brent Field North Atlantic, May 2008










This is a long lived and slow maturing species which has made a spectacular invasion of the North Sea starting from St. Kilda. I could go on and on about how they can spew foul smelling oils over some distance onto creatures they perceive as threats, or that if they land on the ground they can't take off again (sounds terrible but throwing them off a cliff often helps....).


Finally owning a DSLR means that I can now take much better pictures of birds offshore. A moving target and a moving vessel made digibinning somewhat difficult. Even with my "starter lens" the pictures are much better than I managed earlier.


digiscoping, digibinning, bird photography



Pictures taken with a Canon EOS400D with hand held telephoto lens (some 400mm, some zoom)







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