That's seaweed. Patching material for the nest. But from looking at the colony on the boat trip, it seems the gannets are not very choosy about nest building material. They seem to have a fancy for orange and blue bits of nylon rope.
I know there's a British lady who's done well for herself photographing seabirds trapped in manmade debris; plastic bags in particular. I was looking for that in particular, but couldn't see anything that would be harmful to the birds unless swallowed... Jostein 2008/7/6 Bob W <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > You certainly know how to use that lens. In the picture of the 3 > gannets one of them has something caught around its neck - is that > seaweed, or something man-made? > > Bob > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On >> Behalf Of AlunFoto >> Sent: 06 July 2008 12:25 >> To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List >> Subject: GESO - 600mm collection >> >> I've grouped some shots with the FA*600/4 into one gallery. >> There are 10 images. 3 of them have been posted to the List before. >> >> The first 2 are from John Mustarde's garden in Paris, Texas. >> The third is one I've shown before from Østensjøvannet, and the rest >> is from last week-end's foray at Runde. >> >> http://www.alunfoto.no/galleri/thumbnails.php?album=8 >> >> Jostein > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. > -- http://www.alunfoto.no/galleri/ http://alunfoto.blogspot.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
