But, when it opens its bill there is a flash of bright, almost golden yellow on the bird's palate.
This pair are engaging in mating behaviour but the bright yellow can also be useful for chicks being fed and razorbills often quarrel with each other with bills wide open in what is known as bill-gaping.
Each pair will only have one egg and both male and female feed the chick for approximately three weeks.
At around twenty days old the chicks follow the male into the ocean, leaping from the cliff and are fed by him until old enough to become self-sufficient.
Like fulmars, razorbills can live to forty years or more.
Young fulmars spend five years fully at sea, coming back to land to choose a colony after that but even then they won't breed for another few years. They can live for over forty years.
In this image you can see the tube-nose from which the tubenose family get their name, the birds possess a gland which helps to process, store then eject saline through the tube - salty water collected when diving for fish in the north Atlantic.
Here, a flooded landscape with water levels rising rapidly, covering ground passable just the day before as sunset approaches along with crepuscular rays in the colourful but ominous sky.
Storm Gerrit has brought severe winds, flooding and downed trees across Ireland as well as snow across parts of Scotland.
Storm Henk it seems will also be an incredibly windy event happening from Saturday December 30th bringing up to 100mph or 160km/h gusts of wind across the west of Ireland.
This will mark the third named storm, includig Pia, Gerrit and Henk to hit Ireland over Christmas and the New Year.
And expect more flooding.
From a photographic point of view, storms can provide opportunities to photograph amazing and incredible scenes but always with caution, particularly near the coast and watercourses.
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Above, the latest gorgeous sunset and here another two.
One from the start of the year when there was little snow but enough here to be obvious in the landscape even if only at altitude.
And in the middle of the year, a late evening sunset of mountains, lakes and wooded islands.
HEIC was introduced in 2015 by the MPEG. It's a part of MPEG-H Part 12 (ISO/IEC 23008-12) and was largely popularised by Apple, who started using it as the default format for photos on iOS 11 and macOS High Sierra in 2017, replacing the JPEG format.
A window will open with lots of options, for this we simply:
That's it, Photoshop will run, process the images and create the folders such as JPEG / TIFF / PSD with those files added.
You now have your HEIC images converted to other formats.
The mountain pastures above Verbier in Switzerland, a good bit higher than the hill pictured here, are home to Herens cows which are a small breed perfectly suited to the slopes.
For the summer, you can go and visit your cow in her pasture and at the end of the season you get a 5kg wheel of cheese.
A smart idea and one that might also work in parts of Ireland, with Irish breeds of cow.
Now, which of these lovelies would you sponsor?
On we went to find more scenes to photograph.