North Sea Migration - Part IV

 With this final part of the Quartet given over to any other Migratory Species of Wildlife apart from Birds on, or close to the

BUCHAN ALPHA SEMI-SUBMERSIBLE OIL PRODUCTION PLATFORM
SOUTH HALIBUT BASIN - NORTH SEA

Starting with the Big Boys, or Girls for that matter with both

ATLANTIC GREY SEAL

(hauling out onto one of the legs for a spell of sunbathing)
recorded almost daily except in rough weather and

MINKE WHALE

far less frequent.
You would have to take our word for it that this is a

WHITE SATIN MOTH

while far more plausable a
LUMPFISH
and the only member of the genus.

HOVERFLY
(Syrphus ribesii)

COALFISH

CONVOLVULUS HAWK-MOTH

7-SPOT LADYBIRD

PIPEFISH

MAGPIE MOTH

MAGPIE MOTH'S

RED ADMIRAL

ANGLE SHADES MOTH

GARFISH

SILVER Y

and most intriguing of all a

BLACBIRD's NEST,
complete with eggs, found amoung the pipework maybe a prank by one of the Roughnecks?
Thought unlikely, as Company Security are scrupulous in searching crew-change baggage
so maybe the real thing? We will never know!!