Fulmar
One of the benefits of a long lens is that it can photograph things not easily seen with the naked eye. This image was taken on our recent walk from the River Cuckmere to Hope Gap, along the shoreline at low tide. It shows a couple of nesting fulmar taking advantage of an old rabbit tunnel that has been exposed following the erosion of the cliff face. Several pairs of noisy fulmar as well as jackdaws and other birds are nesting in these holes along the cliffs .
Fulmars spend their lives out at sea and come to coastal sites only when nesting high on clifftops. More common in Scotland and the north, the fulmar is related to the albatross. This view is from some 150ft below and the nest is in a layer of red iron-stained nodular and hardground known as the ‘Hope Gap Hardground’. Below that are the famous chalk cliffs of the South Coast
Fulmar
One of the benefits of a long lens is that it can photograph things not easily seen with the naked eye. This image was taken on our recent walk from the River Cuckmere to Hope Gap, along the shoreline at low tide. It shows a couple of nesting fulmar taking advantage of an old rabbit tunnel that has been exposed following the erosion of the cliff face. Several pairs of noisy fulmar as well as jackdaws and other birds are nesting in these holes along the cliffs .
Fulmars spend their lives out at sea and come to coastal sites only when nesting high on clifftops. More common in Scotland and the north, the fulmar is related to the albatross. This view is from some 150ft below and the nest is in a layer of red iron-stained nodular and hardground known as the ‘Hope Gap Hardground’. Below that are the famous chalk cliffs of the South Coast