On Easter Sunday, Chris and I met up with another photography couple, our good friends Kim and Paul, to photograph Northern Gannets feeding on herring migrating through the Delaware Bay.  We spent all day photographing the birds and I took over 2600 photos, but it was well worth it, as I got a ton of neat shots of the gannets.

Gannets are in the family Sulidae and closely related to boobies, which along with kingfishers, are pretty much my favorite birds.  They are a pelagic species, which means they live at sea, and gannets don’t come to shore except to breed, so in order to photograph them you need access to a boat or you have to find an area where they nest.  Fortunately, the migration of herring through the Delaware Bay provided some awesome opportunities to photograph the birds from a boat without heading too far out to sea.

Gannets dive bomb into the water to catch their prey.  This plunge diving activity is impressive to watch, and I was able to get several photographs that capture their airborne acrobatics and diving manuevers, like the one below.

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