The John Jolly

A crab boat returning to Scapa pier, with an oil rig support platform, the Safe Boreas, in the background.
There were masses of gannets, I lost count at 290, fishing with gulls and kittiwakes in the bay. Earlier I looked for the visiting Bonaparte's gull at the Peedie Sea. A false alarm was produced by a first winter little gull.
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