These are large arctic skuas. Birds prefer taking away the other animals' prey. Their world's largest colony lives here, in Hermanesse.
The locals advise to move carefully here as the birds defend their nests and can attack you
But besides the skuas there are hundreds of gannets. They are huge birds with a wingspread of up to 180 cm.
The height of the cliffs is quite impressive, about 200 m.
The water is so clean here.
And this is the fulmar petrel.
There are almost no people in the reserve but lots of sheep...
Who walk along the very edge of the Earth.
From here one can already see the Muckle Flugga Lighthouse, till 1995 - the most northerly inhabited point in Britain.
These are the remains of the hut demolished by the hurricane. Actually, Hermaness can sometimes be quite a dangerous place, especially in winter. Ten years ago, on December 31, two girls died in the fog and hurricane. There were some other deaths when people fell from the 200-meter cliffs.
The view on the South.
Gannets are everywhere.
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