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@elainebradley.bsky.social Oct 4, 2026, 12:35 PM

Puffin gossip on the Isle of May
#scottishwildlife 🪶 #SuperSeabirdSunday

@danjbrown97.bsky.social Oct 4, 2026, 12:11 PM

Black-headed Gull at Hayling Island Oysterbeds last month. #SuperSeabirdSunday #Seabirds

@atcherleyons.bsky.social Oct 4, 2026, 10:03 AM

#WingsOpenNotFlying is the main #BirdOfTheDay theme today, and it’s #SuperSeabirdSunday, so here is an almost-fledgling Gannet, white downy fluff almost all gone, trying out his or her wings at Bempton Cliffs last last month. Post #11 in this #Gannets thread. #Birds #Photography #UKWildlife #ECK 🌿

A photo of an almost-fledgling Northern Gannet (Morus bassanus) sat on a cliffside nest with wings held wide open. The bird is facing towards the rocky cliff and so has their back, and their left side, towards us. The left wing partly obscures the adult Gannet, snoozing on the edge of the nest platform. Gannets are large seabirds, the adults are mostly white in colour but have black wingtips, and yellowish-brown colouration on the tops of their heads which extends down the upper parts of the backs and sides of their necks. The chicks start off with a covering of white, fluffy down, but the one in this photo has little of that left - the head is well covered, as are the lower flanks, by the base of the tail, and there are few small patches on the wings. Elsewhere, the bird is covered with dark blackish-grey feathers, each with a small whitish spot or streak at its tip. The long, pointed beak, the eyes, the short legs and webbed feet, are all blackish in colour.

@smdavies67.bsky.social Oct 4, 2026, 8:45 AM

Some of the Dunbar harbour wildlife inhabitants. At high tide the great black backed gulls, a male eider and a cormorant were all close in with Dunbar castle and its #RNLI flag, blowing in the breeze, as a backdrop.

#SuperSeabirdSunday #DunbarHarbour #EastLothian

@nickerobinson.bsky.social Oct 4, 2026, 8:29 AM

A great shearwater (Ardenna gravis) cruises by from a pelagic South of #CapeTown #SouthAfrica on the 25th October 2015 #Wildlfe #Photography #Seabirds
Please check out the submissions at #SuperSeabirdSunday and give this a repost if you like. Thanks.
@steelyseabirder.bsky.social

Great shearwater (Ardenna gravis) from a pelagic South of Cape Town, South Africa on the 25th October 2015

@thegardenjungle.bsky.social Oct 4, 2026, 7:28 AM

It’s #SuperSeabirdSunday, so here is a Guillemot showing off its landing technique to onlooking Atlantic Puffins #birds #thegardenjungle #wildlifephotography #birdwatching #shropshire #UKwildlife #birdphotography #canon #photography

@s4r4h-l.bsky.social Oct 4, 2026, 7:16 AM

#Puffin! Posted before, I'm sure you'll see him again, love this puffin just doing his thing on the #IsleOfMay in May. #SuperSeabirdSunday

@s4r4h-l.bsky.social Oct 4, 2026, 7:11 AM

Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #WingsOpenNotFlying, birds with their wings open when not flying.
The Alt theme is #Blue, any bird with Blue in its plumage.
As it's also #SuperSeabirdSunday I'll go with my #puffin again!
#birds #ECK #birdphotography #naturephotography @steelyseabirder.bsky.social

A puffin bragging about it's biggest sand eel catch!

@heljel.bsky.social Oct 4, 2026, 6:54 AM

For Rob’s #BirdoftheDay theme #WingsOpenNotFlying and also for #SuperSeabirdSunday, here’s a puffin showing off its muscles and having a good stretch.

#Birds #Northumberland #Farnes #Nature #Wildlife #ECK #Puffins

@tomcadwallender.bsky.social Oct 4, 2026, 6:47 AM

#SuperSeabirdSunday Great Cormorants in The Gambia. These must be the white-breasted sub-species David? @steelyseabirder.bsky.social

@edwardphilips.co.uk Oct 4, 2026, 6:28 AM

I suppose it’s my tern to contribute to #SuperSeabirdSunday; so how about my Inca Tern. xx

Poster of an Inca Tern against a blue backdrop

@ianebbage.bsky.social Oct 4, 2026, 6:14 AM

At the Royal Albatross Centre on the Otago Peninsula in New Zealand, on our visit in 2006 #SuperSeabirdSunday

@steelyseabirder.bsky.social Oct 4, 2026, 5:54 AM

Welcome to Super Seabird Sunday where we ask you to share photos, videos & artwork of seabirds. Here is my contribution, some Puffins on the Isle of May #SuperSeabirdSunday

@atcherleyons.bsky.social Oct 3, 2026, 3:57 PM

Two Terns twisting and turning (or should that be ‘terning’?) over the sea at Cemlyn Bay, Anglesey, back at the beginning of July, and qualifying for today’s #BirdOfTheDay themes #Black&Red and #LongBeak. Post #4 in this #birds thread. #BirdPhotography #ECK #UKWildlife #SuperSeabirdSunday 🌿

Photo of two Terns - Common Sterna hirundo or Arctic (Sterna paradisaea) - in flight above the sea. The one on the left side of the image has his or her upper side towards us, wings outstretched and tail fanned out, with head turned to look down towards the bottom right corner of the picture. In that corner is the second Tern, flying towards us and to our left, head turned to look across towards the left side of the image, with the upper sides of the wings facing us (one stretched right out and the other folded back a little), and tail angled downward and so almost entirely hidden from our view (but it appears that it is fanned out). Terns are like smaller, slimmer and more elegant versions of Gulls. These two are mostly white in colour, with grey on the upper sides of the wings, black tops to their heads. Their long, slim beaks are red; possibly with a black tip in the case of one of them, which would make the bird a Common Tern.

@psheltona.bsky.social Sep 27, 2026, 9:21 PM

Yay for #SuperSeabirdSunday here are some Farne Puffins bobbing along from last year

@cliff-hanger.bsky.social Sep 27, 2026, 7:53 PM

RSPB Bempton Cliffs today, still good numbers of Gannets on the cliffs with chicks. Some chicks may not leave the nest site until early November! Big numbers still on the sea of all age classes. Super views from cliff path and viewpoints providing superb flight and nest photos!
#SuperSeabirdSunday

Juvenile Northern Gannet from Bartlett Nab viewpoint today.

@atcherleyons.bsky.social Sep 27, 2026, 7:18 PM

The Gannet took a few steps towards the edge and crouched down, with wings partly open and at an angle. Then, lift off! Immediately after getting #airborne (today’s #BirdOfTheDay alt theme) the Gannet takes on a wonderful shape, with head up and tail down. #SuperSeabirdSunday #Birds #UKWildlife 🌿

Photo of a Northern Gannet (Morus bassanus) just after taking off from a sandy ledge on a cliff. We see this large seabird from the side, heading towards the left edge of the picture. The head is pointing slightly upward, the chest down, the rump up, and the fanned out tail down; the wings are held upwards. The Gannet is mostly white, with yellow-brown colouring on the top of the head which runs part way down the back and sides of the neck, and black wing-tips. The long beak is grey, with black lines around the edges, and a further black line running along each side of the top part of the beak, from the base almost to the tip. The Gannet's eyes are blue-grey, with black pupils and thick blue rims. The legs and webbed feet are black, with a pale green line running along the top of each toe. The background is a blue-grey colour - the sea, out of focus. A second Gannet can be seen on the cliff a little further back, watching the one in flight with a look that almost appears to be critical, or mildly cantankerous!