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...  so it was described on the phone, and the person speaking wanted to know what it might have been. Where did you see it ? – at the Pakri cliffs. So – black guillemot.

 

There is a small nesting colony on the Pakris, but some thousand migrants stay for the winter. Thus the chances of seeing one are greater now when you check the open sea by binoculars.

 

The flight image of  guillemots is straight-lined, with fast wing beats. Food for the diver is fish, crustaceans and invertebrates.

 

The plumage is black, with just a white patch on the wings; the feet are red and the beak black. As winter approaches the plumage changes to mottled in black-grey-white. The young birds have this plumage already.