Sunday 30 October 2022

North Sea Migration - Part I

 For this and a number of following Sunday's we intend to content ourselves with a series of Posts relating to the extrodinay and maybe unbelievable Wildlife associated with the North Sea and it ain't all Sharks and Whales! All images are associated with the

FLOATING SEMI-SUBMERSIBLE OIL PRODUCTION PLATFORM
'BUCHAN ALPHA'

stationed 100 miles north-east of Aberdeen, Scotland in a Sea-Area known as

The South Halibut Basin. 

The selection of images is random.

Night Migration's must have involved Million of Birds and other creatures!
Myself with a Big Boy juvenile
GREAT BLACK-BACKED GULL
WHEATEAR
LAPLAND BUNTING
COLLARED DOVE
TURNSTONE
BARNACLE GOOSE
REDSTART
among the millions many, many fatalities with all casualties sent to the North Sea Bird Club at Culterty some miles north of Aberdeen. The practice was suspended when the the Bird Flu set in!
LONG-EARED OWL
GREENFINCH
ROCK PIPIT
ROCK DOVEs

a bit of a 'stay-at-home' species, which at the time never having been recorded this far from land.

SISKIN
More, and maybe even 'better' next week!
P.S. - Things are not happening as we might have hoped with 'hits' remaining very much in the doldrums! Only you can rectify that by passing on the Link so here's hoping!