Spectacular Cape St. Mary’s Eco Reserve in Newfoundland

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Soooooo many birds – and soooo high up!

The free-standing, island mountain in the middle, known as Bird Rock, is completely covered by gannets. Northern gannets to be precise, around twenty thousand of them.

The cliffs on either side of Bird Rock are covered with innumerable other birds.

There are about as many of both black-legged kittiwakes and common murres as there are gannets. All in all, well over fifty thousand birds. Between the drifting fog banks we got good views of most of them… See more photos and read our full adventure >>

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