Black-browed Albatross
Apologies for the continuing theme of the Yorkshire Albatross but it was a pretty amazing, and this angle shows its underwing pattern rather than its black back. Black-browed Albatross normally only occurs in the southern hemisphere and its nearest breeding site to Britain is the Falkland Islands which is 8000 miles away. They are habitual ship followers and I'm assuming that is how this one managed to stray so far out of range. But Sooty Shearwaters www.flickr.com/photos/timmelling/5511808162/in/photolist also breed in the Falkland Islands and they routinely migrate north to British waters in large numbers every summer (which is the southern hemisphere winter).
Black-browed Albatross
Apologies for the continuing theme of the Yorkshire Albatross but it was a pretty amazing, and this angle shows its underwing pattern rather than its black back. Black-browed Albatross normally only occurs in the southern hemisphere and its nearest breeding site to Britain is the Falkland Islands which is 8000 miles away. They are habitual ship followers and I'm assuming that is how this one managed to stray so far out of range. But Sooty Shearwaters www.flickr.com/photos/timmelling/5511808162/in/photolist also breed in the Falkland Islands and they routinely migrate north to British waters in large numbers every summer (which is the southern hemisphere winter).