Fulmars in blackpropaganda

When you are on a ship for a long time you become aware of the range of seabids around you - and we saw guillemots, puffins, sheerwaters - but my favourites were the fulmars - truly sea bids since they only come to land to breed - and for the rest of the time are at sea. They follow ships - in the hope of them being fishing vessels - and suddenly one afternoon on deck I took this sequence with my I Phone between Greenland and Canada

First the birds in the sky ahead of the ship

High in the sky

Alongside the ship close to the sea

and flying beside you a few feet away