Gannets on Bass Rock

This year I made the long journey north of the Scottish border to the Bass Rock. This lump of rock situated about a mile offshore from North Berwick plays host to one of the most dramatic wildlife spectacles in Britain. During the spring and early summer the rock is home to thousands of pairs of Gannets, in fact there are so many birds that, from a distance, the island appears to be covered in snow. If you take a boat out to the island you are treated to the spectacle of thousands of these huge white seabirds flying around the rock like an everchanging cloud and plunging into the sea to catch fish.