May my bones cradle you and become your nest.

I found a Gannet skull a few years ago on my local beach when litter picking, and I was quite pleased as you don't find gannets locally and skulls are fragile things.

Then this year I saw a whole dead gannet on the beach.

Then another.

Then another skull.

Then another; now mostly a skeleton.

Then I heard reports of sick birds on the beach.

All in the space of a few weeks.

While I was pleased to find two more skulls (one more intact than the other). I knew this was a very worrying sign (and don't worry I didn't touch any of the recently dead ones, just the ones reduced down to mostly bare bones, I wear gloves when rubbish collecting in any case).

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/.....ds-of-seabirds

We have no colonies nearby, but there were sightings of sick gannets on our beaches, and the amount of skeletal parts washing up is a sobering scene. Bird flu is still an issue, and it's a deadly one.