Today we went out for a walk! This is not totally startling, we often go out for a walk on New Year's Day. We always kid ourselves that this will be the year that we go out for a walk every day, although it never is.
Anyway there has been much excitement recently on Facebook about the fact that for the past couple of days there have been whales playing in the bay just round the corner from where we live so we decided we'd go and see if they were still there.
Sadly there was no sign, although we stayed for quite a long time looking, despite the very cold temperature, but we did see quite a few seals and lots and lots of gannets. Obviously the recent storms have blown huge shoals of fish into the bay, and the gannets, and the seals, have followed. Not sure if the whales have followed the fish or been blown off course. Sorry we missed them though.
This isn't the best of pictures, but hopefully you can make out some of the many gannets. You'll have to take my word for the seals, but they were there!
Follow this link to see the video of the Gannets plunge diving to feed. Hmm, reminds me of a recent black & furry addition to the family attacking his food bowl! http://vid1293.photobucket.com/albums/b599/Silversmith111/VIDEO00181_zpsbocjipya.mp4
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