Clyde Pelagic Cruises

These photos were taken on Clyde Pelagic Cruises organised since 2005 by Wildlife Crime Police Officers to monitor populations of seabirds in the Firth of Clyde.

Around Greenock, and vertical panorama of gannet diving against Lochranza

9018 - red throated diver in flight 9025 - guillemot swimming in the rain 7674 gannet diving against Lochranza composite
9029 - shags and cormorants on buoy off Greenock Container Terminal 9030 - shags and cormorants taking off from buoy

Gannets in flight and Scenery of the lower Firth of Clyde, and vertical panorama of gannet diving off Lochranza

5730 - gannet in flight 5743 - gannet taking off from sea 7678 to 7684 Gannet diving off Lochranza composite
5763 gannet diving 5754 - gannet in flight
8810 - south Bute and Arran 8811 - Loch Ranza yacht Casteil Abhail (Sleeping Warrior), Arran
9454 grey wagtail by stream Lochranza cropped 9543 shags on rocks Kyles of Bute narrows cropped
9481 hybrid or hooded crow Lochranza beach cropped 7635 yachts on Firth of Clyde with Bute ferry in background

Manx Shearwaters mostly between Toward Point and the Cloch Lighthouse August 2006 (with reflection) and August 2007 (blue sea)

All Manx Shearwaters available at up to 25 megapixels, with lots more sea around them or cropped to portrait or landscape

7995 Manx Shearwater flying on Firth of Clyde 7996 Manx Shearwater flying on Firth of Clyde 8017 Manx Shearwaters taking off on Firth of Clyde
8023 Manx Shearwater flying on Firth of Clyde 8027 Manx Shearwater flying on Firth of Clyde 0368 manx shearwater taking off from water with reflection cropped landscape

 

see also Ailsa Craig page for more gannet pictures and another manx shearwater taking off

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