Skellig birds, part three.

Kittiwakes nesting

Puffins

Puffins

Puffins

Gannets on Little Skellig

Storm Petrel

Razorbills

Herring Gull

Razorbills

Fulmar

Fulmar flying

Fulmar flying

Kittiwakes

Information about Kittiwakes can be found here, Birdwatch Ireland.
The Storm Petrel link is here, same source.

Skellig Birds, part two.

Puffin

Puffin

Puffin

Puffin

Puffin

Puffin

Fulmar

Fulmar

Fulmar

 Herring Gull and Little Skellig

Read about the Fulmar on the Birdwatch Ireland website here
The information about the Herring Gull can be found at the same source here

Skellig Birds, part one.

 

All photos taken on Skellig Michael

Puffins are any of three small species of auk (or alcids) in the bird genus Fratercula with a brightly coloured beak during the breeding season. These are pelagic seabirds that feed primarily by diving in the water. They breed in large colonies on coastal cliffs or offshore islands, nesting in crevices among rocks or in burrows in the soil. Two species, the Tufted Puffin and Horned Puffin, are found in the North Pacific Ocean, while the Atlantic Puffin is found in the North Atlantic Ocean.
All puffin species have predominantly black or black and white plumage, a stocky build, and large beaks. They shed the colourful outer parts of their bills after the breeding season, leaving a smaller and duller beak. Their short wings are adapted for swimming with a flying technique under water. In the air, they beat their wings rapidly (up to 400 times per minute)^[1] in swift flight, often flying low over the ocean's surface.
source: wiki Puffin

Go raibh Nollaig shona agus athbhliain sona sásta ag gach éinne!

A Happy Christmas and a prosperous Year 2012 to all of you and thank you for the support, help and friendship.

Winter Solstice Eightercua, Waterville.

Eightercua is a four-stone alignment (stone-row) Megalithic tomb, located 1.5 km south-south-east of Waterville, County Kerry, Ireland. The tallest stone reaches 9 feet in height, and the alignment streaches for twenty five feet in an east-west direction. Surrounding artifacts, including remains of a possible tomb and an ancient enclosure, suggest that the site had a ritual purpose at one time. Eightercua is thought to originate from circa. 1700 BC, and by tradition is the burial place of Scéine, wife of the leader of the Milesian invaders, Amergin mac Míled.^[1]
The site features four tall slabs from 1.8m to 3m high running east and west. From one stone a slab runs south and could be part of a tomb chamber or cist set in an oval cairn 1m high
source: wikipedia

Winter in Kerry as we like it

Outside Cahersiveen

St.Finians Bay beach

Lemaon Rock and Skelligs

Cloud over Rossbeigh beach

Dingle Bay Rainbow

Kells

Knocknadobar shower

Outside Cahersiveen

Dingle Bay