Western Isles - Guga Hunt

Gannets - Gugas - Young Gannets - Western Isles - Outer Hebrides
One of the traditions the "Guga Hunting" which is carried out by the men of Ness situated at the most Northerly point of the Tip of The Isle of Lewis. The gannets are really powerful birds that you often see diving for fish here in The Western Isles

Gannet in Flight
Isle of Lewis - Western Isles

Western Isles Photographs - Gannet Flying

Gannet in Flight
Boreray - St Kilda

Western Isles - Photos - Nesting Gannets

Gannets Nesting on the Stacs
St Kilda - Outer Hebrides

Birds - Gannet Flying - Outer Hebrides Pictures - Western Isles

The powerful adult Gannet
In Flight - Western Isles

Three Gannets In Flight
Isle of Lewis

Gannet - Close up of the Head - Western Isles

Close up of The Gannets Head
Bird Sightings - Isle of Lewis

Such power this bird has
The Gannet - Western Isles

A gannet skimming the water after
having dived for fish

Gannet Diving
Isle of Lewis - Western Isles

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Gannets - Powerful Birds that Can Dive at amazing speeds and to great depths
The men of Ness, Isle of Lewis keep up a tradition they have followed for hundreds of years, the men catch for food the gannets young which are called "guga", the men have become nicknamed "guga hunters" of the Western Isles

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