This time I took a few videos.
Razorbill, appears to be tending a chick (unseen), click for video
More Razorbill action, click here
Fulmars, click here Kittiwakes, click here
Razorbill
Something suddenly got their attention but I couldn't see what
Kittiwake
Immature Kittiwake
Aerial acrobatics required to get to an itch
Female Common Blue Butterfly, just a bit too windy for these guys
Painted Lady. This must be a "Painted Lady Year", I've been seeing lots of them, almost fifty on one of my corn bunting surveys, also a small number of Red Admirals. Also, the first time I can recall, I saw a pair of Painted Ladies mating in a barley field. (any comments on this will be vetted!)
You can see the tongue in both photos as the butterfly feeds on thie rape flowers
Sand Martin, when above the horizon with the sky behind it. These guys are just too fast, erratic and small, I took very many photos just to get these. Mind you it turned out to be later in the day than I thought, and less light too
Another with the sea as the background
Fulmars are demoted down the post today as they feature too often (I've been told). I do like these head-on shots though
You can see how soft the old red sandstone is, the Fulmar is marked by it
They are always curious, this one wanted to see what I was doing just at the start of the path, I was failing to get a good photo of Sand Martins
A friendly one-legged Herring Gull which favours a roosting spot where I've been sitting
Probably lost the leg tangled in fishing or angling gear
I was suddenly aware of it sitting very close, any nearer and the camera wouldn't have focused
"Itchy and Scratchy", certainly noisy. Two Herring Gull chicks across the gulley from where I was sitting
One of a few Shags nesting in caves at the cliffs but they never get close enough