Morus bassanus

[Dave Green]

Yes - Gannets!

Bempton Cliffs at the weekend.

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[Pete Askew]

Beautifully done again, Dave.

 

[Glen Roberts]

Some beauties there Dave, hoping to get back there again in a couple of weeks time.

 

[Julian de'Courcy]

Well executed Dave, Such clarity.

 

[John Holland]

Fantastic images, Dave.

 

[Dave Green]

Thanks chaps

I have more - many more lol

 

[Douglas McMann]

Beauties Dave...and, did you know that "Bassanus" is actually derived from The Bass Rock, in the Firth of Forth, east of Edinburgh...?

The largest single island Gannet colony in the world with over 150,000 of them on the Rock. SO many of them, that the rock is actually white from their poo....

http://www.realphotographersforum.com/forum/threads/black-sea-white-rock.20576/

 

[Dave Green]

I thought it was the other way around? I was told that Bass Rock was named after the bird.

 

[Pete Askew]

Almost certainly the bird would be named after the rock as the binomial naming system wasn't around before the 1750s and it seems the island was referred to as Bass Rock way before then. Interesting though.

 

[Douglas McMann]

Yep...what he says....

There are a number of "basses" about in Scotia, predominantly hilly prominences, rocks or mounds which were used in Pictish and Medieval times as hill forts...

 

[Julian de'Courcy]

Ye we have about ten bass rocks here alone

 

[Ivar Dahl-Larsen]

What, - colour Dave? Beautiful, just beautiful and I'm envious. Wonder if I'll come across some in Denmark?

 

[Dave Green]

Ta Ivar - they're lovely birds.

Yes - definitely in Denmark. Skagen is the place apparently!

 

[Ivar Dahl-Larsen]

Ta Ivar - they're lovely birds.

Yes - definitely in Denmark. Skagen is the place apparently!

Thanks Dave, I actually did not know that and I am going there as well as other places. Know it well, but apparently not that well.

 

[Paul Lange]

A few stunners there, Dave.