Morte de Morus

Again, a backblip as my photo from yesterday just wouldn't load late last night. On Saturday night, we stayed with John and Kathy in North Berwick after a great party in Dunbar. And so, I was able to walk Ella Wonder Dog on the beach at North Berwick early on Sunday morning. I found a couple of dead gannets being pushed up the beach by the rising tide. This picture shows one of the carcasses with the island of the Bass Rock on the horizon. This makes for a more poignant image as this gannet was almost certainly born on the Bass Rock, home to the world's largest gannet colony. In fact, the scientific name for the (Northern) gannet is Morus bassanus, named after the island.