A few seabirds from a recent trip to Anglesey.

The Black Guillemot is not a species of seabird that I see very often, in actually fact up until my recent family trip to Anglesey at the end of July, I had never seen an adult in full colour. I went out on a tourist boat out of Beaumaris around the aptly named "Puffin Island" and yes we did see Puffin too, but for me though, the highlight was definitely the Black Guillemot pair that were spotted just off the island. This is a species that breeds in Scotland in several sites, on the Isle of Man and very rarely on the East of Anglesey so imagine how amazing it was to see a pair, a very lucky encounter because there are reckoned to be less than just 20 pairs breeding in Wales. As well as the Black Guillemot, later on in the day at South Stack , home of a massive colony of Razorbills, I climbed down towards the lighthouse and had some incredible views of them as they came in to their cliff ledges. I tried very hard to photograph them in flight and had some limited success. It occurred to me that there can't be many birds that are equally adept at flying and swimming.