David Steel

He who kisses joy as it flies,
Lives in eternities sunrise
-William Blake-

Happy Monday x

#SeaBirds #Flight #wings #watercolour #art

I’ll highlight this in next few days on the islands blog. Awful. It’s been a really tough winter for seabirds

Puffin “wreck” on French/Iberian coasts getting zero media coverage. A major disaster. Needs to be covered by the mainstream media. @markavery.bsky.social @theguardian.com @birdtrack.bsky.social @steelyseabirder.bsky.social @jbfarthing.bsky.social @rspbscotland.bsky.social @btoscotland.bsky.social

Today's #BirdOfTheDay alternate theme chosen by @robcrank68.bsky.social is #LightAndShade

Here is a ring billed gull

#ringbilledgull #gull #wildlifephotography #wildlife #naturephotography #nature #photography #birds #birdsinflight #seabirds #🪶

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Guillemot stack

Guillemot colony

Guillemot colony

White water in West Voe of Sumburgh

Good to see the guillemot stacks filling up on a sunny Sunday morning at Sumburgh Head #Shetland #superseabirdsunday

Puffins from the Shiant Isles are having a tough winter of it with an almost unprecedented 'wreck' on European coasts.

Two birds stand on a hillside covered with greenery. The birds have black backs and white bellies. Their heads are raised and there are white stripes at the top of their beaks.

#Razorbill friends for #SuperSeabirdSunday. #birds #WildlifePhotography #EKC

A large fork-tailed bird with black wings and white breast.

Christmas island frigatebird.
#SuperSeabirdSunday

12 Marbled Murrelets (small seabirds) swim on a calm sea surface, sea otter in the distance

one of the bigger flocks of Marbled Murrelet's I've seen. Tika Kaq’ (Kachemak Bay), Alaska. Alutiiq(Sugpiaq) and Dena'ina waters.

Seagulls a long way from the sea. Displaying Saunder's Gulls, Mongolia May 2024.
#SuperSeabirdSunday

A pelican from Virginia and a Grey Goose from near the Ouse

Large white bird with dark eye markings and curved red bill sits on the ground in dappled shade with the downy head and breast of its chick emerging from under its left wing. Ted-tailed tropicbird.

This parent and hatchling Red-tailed tropicbird for my #SuperSeabirdSunday offering. With as many as 10 nesting within metres of the Park’s Hut on Phillip Island, off Norfolk last week- it was always advisable to have the phone handy

Great Cormorant at Gosforth Park NR, Northumberland, 5 March 2026.

Fisherman bragging about the size of The One That Got Away for #SuperSeabirdSunday

The largest member of the gull family, the Great Black-backed, at Port Seton last week #superseabirdsunday

With a few days of sun & warmth this week ☀️, the seabird breeding season briefly turned up to 11 on the south coast. At the West Hayling lagoons, Mediterranean Gulls continue ro build in numbers & perform courtship, whilst Black-headed Gulls select territories 1/ #SuperSeabirdSunday

Two Bar-tailed Godwit at the seashore; one with its beak tucked into its wing and the other facing left. In front of them is a large flock of roosting Dunlin with a clump of seaweed in the left foreground on the sandy beach. The background is the sea with a small wave rolling into shore. There is a sanderling flying through the frame on the left

🪶 For today’s #SuperSeabirdSunday I have a shot of two Bar-tailed Godwit at the seashore with a flock of Dunlin roosting in front of them and a Sanderling flying by.

#birds #birdsofbluesky #birdphotography #stunday #godwit #eastcoastkin #irishbirding #naturephotography #sanderling #dunlin

All the small gulls are smart looking birds, as evidence I present this lovely winter-plumaged adult in Cardiff Bay yesterday #SuperSeabirdSunday #birdingWales

Adult great cormorant sitting in rock at sea

A group of 5 great cormorant sitting on rock at sea

Great cormorant coming back from fishing at landing

For #superseabirdsunday , the #greatcormorant at Punta Calaburra in Spain , yesterday.
#blueskybird #birdphotography #photographie #ornithologie #cormorant #birdsSeenIn2026 #spain #malaga #andalousie #andalousia #birdofandalousia #birdsoftheworld #birdpins

Taken a couple of years ago...but i like it, so sharing again!
#seabirds
#birds
#superseabirdsunday

I do love Cormorants #SuperSeabirdSunday #Cormorant #Birds #BirdingWales #Nature #Wildlife #EastCoastKin #Birding #birdsofbluesky #BirdPhotography #naturetherapy

Australasian Gannet colony at Muriwai, New Zealand, 2nd February 2026.

#SuperSeabirdSunday

Gavia adamsii

Gavia adamsii

It's #SuperSeabirdSunday!

As an arctic bird lover, one of the ultimates is this adult White-Billed Diver that showed incredibly well at Blyth Harbour last Sunday.

A brute of a diver!

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#Seabird #UKWildlife #BirdingNorthEast #RareBirdsUK #BirdingUK 🪶

Great Black-backed Gull, Isles of Scilly, May 2018. #SuperSeabirdSunday.

What a belter! Look at that!!

An adult Ross's gull with 1st-Winter Mediterranean gull, and avocet at #Radipole, #Weymouth, #Dorset on the 4th March 2018. #DirtyTwitching #Seabirds #Wildlfe #Photography
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#SuperSeabirdSunday Svalbard Pale-bellied Brent Geese in the surf on the Northumberland coast, David @steelyseabirder.bsky.social

A puffin enjoying the wildflowers

Welcome to Super Seabird Sunday where we ask you to share photos, videos & artwork of seabirds to brighten up timelines.
#Puffin! One of Mr Wonderful's from the Isle of May
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Morning all. Staying razor sharp for #SuperSeabirdSunday xx

Welcome to Super Seabird Sunday where we ask you to share photos, videos & artwork of seabirds to brighten up timelines. Here are some Guillemots & Razorbills on Isle of May just last week to get us started #SuperSeabirdSunday

Morning from the Isle of May