There are three species of gannets. One in northern Europe and eastern Canada. Another in southern Africa. And a third in New Zealand and Australia. They are coastal birds, and although GANNET and I are pelagic, they are beautiful and graceful and I am glad I named the little boat after them.
I thank Martin for links to two short videos of one of the biggest northern European gannet colonies on Bass Rock off Scotland.
While I watched I found myself wondering at the number of fish needed to feed all those birds.
As some of you know I read poetry each morning, some ancient Chinese or Japanese, some usually modern Western. When I come across a poem I think worth sharing, I make a screen shot of the page. Having recently been preoccupied with RETURN TO THE SEA, I have been remiss in passing those on. So here they are.
The Chinese are from 300 TANG POEMS. The Tang dynasty ran from 618-907.
The Western poems are from the BEING HUMAN anthology.
I don't think you will have any difficulty knowing which is which.
'On A Political Prisoner' is by William Butler Yeats.
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