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!

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