Flick 🇬🇧 on Nostr: > Only the fulmars braved these Atlantic-facing cliffs today, a few pairs tucked in ...

> Only the fulmars braved these Atlantic-facing cliffs today, a few pairs tucked in out of the weather, chubby birds with snow-white breasts and prominent ‘nostrils’ called naricorns that exude a saline dribble to help the bird keep desalinated after its fishing in the salty ocean. Fulmars can spit a foul orange fish oil at anything or anyone they deem a threat. If this vile substance gets on your clothes its ‘fragrance’ will cling there through many washes; if it gets on the plumage of a predator such as a great black-backed gull it glues the feathers together, crippling and sometimes killing the aggressor. Despite this, the fulmar is a very endearing bird, fond of indulging in neck-to-neck frottage with its partner, and apt to cruise past on stiff wings glancing sideways at you with a round black eye as though weighing you up