Birds Offshore
October 27th, 2004 by James
Besides the usual mechanical birds that you expect to see offshore, the platforms provide a resting place and even a home to many species of birds. The Holstein platform serves as home to at least one pair of hawks. These two can be seen wheeling and soaring around the platform, roosting on the drill rig and the flare boom, and even knocking doves and other small birds out of the air around the platform. Hawks and falcons seem to get along well with human developments - soaring amongst the buildings of Manhattan and sitting on freeway-side lamp-poles.
I’ve also gotten a few shots of the mechanical birds as they take off from the platform:
An S61 and a Puma take off from the platform on their way to either Mad Dog, or shore.
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