Saturday 29 August 2015

SATURDAY CRITTERS - Ailsa Craig Island (Part 12)

Our time is nearly up on the island of Ailsa Craig and as I walked round a small part of it,  I found a lot of Lesser Black backed gulls with their chicks.  You could barely see the chicks even though they were as large as the adults but blended 
in well to the rock colours as you can see from this first 2 shots below.





The rocks had this amazing patterns of lichen on them and when I looked at the Lighthouse, I could see that the mist was soon going to surround Ailsa completely again.  We were fortunate when arriving at Ailsa that the mist had lifted for us to see the bird sanctuary.




An old generator


Time to go and we had to be careful walking down the jetty due to half of it being missing and the other half covered in slippery green seaweed.





Common Seal


Last views of some of the birds and Seals on the island. 
 Time to say goodbye to them all.









This Grey Seal was watching us leave this amazing island.

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I hope you enjoyed this post. 

I have 3 more posts to show you before the series ends.

I am linking this post with SATURDAY CRITTERS.

Many thanks for visiting and to all those who leave comments.

30 comments:

  1. very pretty birds. the seal made me smile. :)

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  2. The chicks camoflague is incredible. I loved that lichen too. Another lovely post to this series. Thank you.

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  3. So many wonderful pictures! I love the one with the seal most!

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  4. Dearest Margaret; Oh My, I enjoyed the tour to Ailsa Craig Island♪ Loved to see Birds and Seal with both pictures and video♡♡♡

    Sending Lots of Love and Hugs from Japan to my Dear friend, xoxo Miyako*

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  5. Hello Margaret, the island visit was awesome. I enjoyed all the birds, especially the gannets. The gull chicks and seal are cute. Thank you for linking up and sharing your post. Have a happy weekend!

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  6. What a great trip, Margaret! There was plenty to see and wonder at on Ailsa! I had to look very closely to see the gull chicks! I love the seals watching you too!
    Have a great weekend!

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  7. I'm glad you mentioned the chicks as I probably would not have noticed them as they really do blend in!

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  8. Lovely atmospheric photos Margaret - really like the photo of all the lichens on the rock (just beautiful) :) Sounds like the most wonderful island to visit.

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  9. Awesome on seeing the grey seal!

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  10. I do so love lighthouses, and we were able to get about 12 or 13 of them in Maine. Thanks for the video!

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  11. Brilliant post Margaret. It was fun to see all the birds and the seals, the other interesting photos too. Thank you so much. Happy weekend to you.

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  12. Seals and Gulls are such lovely creatures. -Great shots!

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  13. What a great place to visit. The variety of birds and the landscape plus I love old technology like the generator and and other items you found.

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  14. wow...I would love to be able to visit this island. Fabulous photos...I love the misty one with the lighthouse...and all of the bird photos of course!

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  15. Beautiful pictures ! I especially love the seagulls, they always remind me my holidays in England. The chicks are always grey and sometimes even bigger than their white mothers !

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  16. omgoodness, i about wet my pants!!! the seals are always a favorite sighting for me, we get them during the winter!!! also lots of great shore birds!!!!

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  17. Very beautiful shots of the bird. So many of them in one place.

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  18. Wonderful Gulls and seals shots. Love the video!

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  19. All wonderful photography! Love seal! ~ great textures you found as well as wonderful 'critters'!

    Happy Weekend to you,
    artmusedog and carol

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  20. Lovely pictures in this series. I think the wet weather really brought these to life.

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  21. You certainly got your camera's worth out of this trip!
    ~

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  22. Fantastic island, covered with birds, I love it.

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  23. What a wonderful trip, so much to see. I really enjoyed the video.

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  24. Thanks for letting us ride along on yet another of your birding adventures!!!

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  25. That seal popping up to say hello to us is priceless!! Love lighthouses I do!!! And your gull and cormorant photos are superb.

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  26. Great set of pictures - I have seen AC from the north, from the south coast of Arran, yet another place I would like to go back to!

    Cheers - Stewart M - Melbourne

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  27. How great to see seals. Apparently they've had a bumper year for breeding. The young gull took me ages to spot it really is blended into the rocks

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    1. HI Doulgas There are actually 2 young Gulls in that shot. They are very well blended in. Thanks for visit and comment

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  28. I think gulls are beautiful birds. And Gannets are stunning :)

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  29. I love all the birds and the seals are adorable. They have such sweet faces.

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