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- Gannet Girl
- Gannets are enormous and sleek creamy-white seabirds, with black wingtips, yellow heads and necks, and startlingly outlined eyes. They nest on the rocky cliffs of the European and North American coasts of the North Atlantic and, once grown, spend their days sailing across the ocean. The acrobatics by which they make their living ~ steep climbs into the air and speedy plunges straight into the sea ~ are rivaled only by those of pelicans. What better metaphor for a sweeping search of one's life choices and opportunities than a gannet extended above the waves, a regal and yet restless surveyor of the vast ocean surface? The gannet reminds us that life is an adventure in both beauty and profound unease, and that the sea itself is limitless in its textures and possibilities.
7 comments:
What a great shot. We have a lot of grass fields and the like around here. We have a fairly stable population of Canada Geese that stick around all year.
Jackie
How beautiful, Robin. How beautiful.
Vicky
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They are beautiful.
Judi
So cool.
Love this shot!
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Keep them there. We have more than enough here and they are quite messy as well. I agree that they're beautiful when on the water where they're supposed to be but when they make a mess of parking lots, congregate at entrances to buildings, or decide to cross the street in the middle of rush hour I classify them as a nuisance.
Most of these guys don't leave our neck of the woods at all. They just fly from swamp to pond to river and honk. I still love to hear them, though... It's one of the sounds of fall, to me. Whenever I hear the "barking," I have to scan the sky until I see them. Lisa :-]
Great picture! I'll bet they are thinking of it by now.
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