SATURDAY CRITTERS

This is the final day of my series of photographs that Danny, Colin and myself took when I took 16 of my Birders on a boat trip to Mew Island,  Copelands, near Donaghadee.  These are Arctic Tern and Common Guillemot.

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Mount Stewart Outing on Strangford Lough (Part 3)

Today I will showing you winter Razorbill and winter Common Guillemot.

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SATURDAY CRITTERS

These are some gulls and auks I saw recently when I walked down to the Long Hole at Bangor Pier.  The first gull is a 2nd year Herring gull.  Notice the amount of grey he has on his back.

I thought when I photographed these birds that they were both Razorbills and only when I looked at them on the laptop did I realise the LH one is a Common Guillemot and the RH one a Razorbill.

Common Guillemot above Razorbill below

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Common Guillemot above and below

Redshank

  Razorbill (All)

Lastly we have an adult Herring gull and a Turnstone.  Join me next Monday when I will show you more images and video of the Turnstone.

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THROUGH MY LENS - Great Saltee island (Part 9 ) Razorbill

These Puffin, Razorbill, Guillemots and Kittiwakes are photographed on Great Salltee Island and I have discovered on the FIRST day I took 34 video clips (don’t ask how many stills!!!) So most days I will add a VIDEO at the end. 

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 I hope you enjoyed these stills and video, (Many more to go!)

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SATURDAY CRITTERS - Gobbins (Part 6)

As we were mainly a bird group we asked George, our guide if we could spend more time looking at the main colony of birds that we found at the end of our Gobbins walk.  There were Razorbill, Common Guillemot, Shag, Kittiwake,

Common Guillemot, Shag nesting and Cormorant flying by.  

 Razorbill.

Common Guillemot

Common Guillemot and Shag

Common Guillemot and Kittiwake

Puffin

This memorial that you see here was erected by friends of the deceased to commemorate "The Pickie Boys," a group of, Queens University Belfast, students who rented Burnside cottage near Woodside's farm above us during Easter and summer holidays. 

The group included Walter Newell a highly accomplished rugby player and his friend Billy Edwards. These two amongst others described how they loved spending glorious summers in the Gobbins and Islandmagee. Sadly Lance Corporal Newell was killed in action in 1915 serving with the Black watch regiment along with his two brothers. Capt. Billy Edwards also died, killed in action in 1917. The monument was erected in fond memory of "The Pickie Boys," shortly after the war.

These are a few of the properties I saw 

on our way up the last big climb

 to our waiting bus.  

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I have only one more photograph to show you and that will be on tomorrow's post as we reach the top again and join the bus. All the past Gobbins links will be on that post.

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However, I would like to thank all of you who came on this walk with us.

Now on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday of next week, we are off walking again however this time it will be very leisurely, on the level and very beautiful.  In fact, I have made 3 videos from the walk I did last week round Mount Stewart lake.  You do not want to miss it.

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