While checking on murres in productivity plot 87 at Zapadni, leaning a bit further over the ledge than I should have been, I spotted my first northern fulmar chick of the season and life. A ball of down no longer small enough to hide under the parent. Fulmars apparently take incubating very seriously. Despite the fact that they nest among the kittiwakes and murres I've been monitoring all season, I have yet to observe a single fulmar egg. Now that the chicks are hatching, I probably never will.
Canon EOS 60D, Canon EF 70-200mm f/4L USM + 1.4x, ISO-800 f/5.6 @ 1/800 sec.
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