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Black Guillemots on the Liffey, Dublin, originally uploaded by Dave Walsh Photography.

Lovely Black Guillemots or tysties, Cepphus grylle on the Liffey, Dublin, , beside Sean O’Casey Bridge. They’ve been around a couple of weeks now… which is a little strange, as the tystie is normally a cliff-dwelling species…
This photo was taken nearly a month ago, but I saw them last weekend in the same area. I didn’t have my 100-400 with me, so this is taken with a 70-200.
This Examiner article from 2006 suggests they’ve been around quite a while: Tystie treat as auks try the inner city

daev

Chief Bottle Washer at Blather

Writer, photographer, environmental campaigner and "known troublemaker" Dave Walsh is the founder of Blather.net, described both as "possibly the most arrogant and depraved website to be found either side of the majestic Shannon River", and "the nicest website circulating in Ireland". Half Irishman, half-bicycle. He lives in southern Irish city of Barcelona.