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Fotoeins Friday, Helgoland: nesting northern gannets

It’s bird season! But this is definitely not hunting with guns, but rather, a photographic hunt of the wild mass of noisy smelly birds. Pictured here is a small sampling of thousands of northern gannets nesting on their little mounds, each with at least an egg, hatchling, or in this case, a chick as indicated by an arrow.

I made the image above with a Fujifilm X70 fixed-lens prime on 24 May 2024 with the following settings: 1/500-sec, f/13, ISO1000, 18.5mm focal length (28mm full-frame equivalent). This post appears on Fotoeins Fotografie at fotoeins DOT com as https://wp.me/p1BIdT-w8R.

24T17 Heligoland & Dune

E16, Helgoland & Düne

Helgoland (Heligoland) is a piece of red rock in the North Sea, about 63 km (40 mi) to the northwest of Cuxhaven. The island is only 1.7 square-km (0.7 sq mi) in area with a population of about 1500. The neighbouring islet of Düne was created when surge from the 1721 New Year’s Day storm submerged the land connection with Helgoland. Helgoland has the towering red cliffs; Düne has lots of fine white sand.

538am: the sun rises over Düne.
823am, memorial to Heinrich Hoffmann von Fallersleben, who in 1841 on visit to Helgoland wrote the text to Germany’s national anthem.
828am, Hafenstrasse: the former lobster shacks (Hummerbuden) have been put to good commercial use.
909am, after the 10-minute shuttle ferry to Düne, there’s this morning view of Helgoland.
1121h, Dünen Südstrand: high tide 1319h, low tide 1959h, ocean temperature +13C (56F).
1125h, Dünen Südstrand: Strandkörbe (beach baskets).
54 degrees & 11 minutes North latitude; 7 degrees & 53 minutes East longitude.
1710h, Oberland, down into Unterland and the islet of Dünen across the channel.
Oberland: Brits’ post-war attempt to blow up the island failed, but one of their 5000-kg bombs made a “Big Bang”, resulting in this crater tens of metres across.
Oberland: the red cliffs are home to northern gannets and guillemots.
Northern gannets (Basstölpel). Many “nesting” mounds visible; some with eggs laid, others with hatched chicks.
1846h Oberland: sharing the small red island.

I made all images above with an iPhone15 on 24 May 2024. Listed times are in CEDT. This post composed with Jetpack for iOS appears on Fotoeins Fotografie at fotoeins DOT com.