Previously “Diary of a Birding Medic”; “Rugby Birder”; "Bempton Birder”. All views expressed in this blog are my OWN and do not represent the opinions or policies of any organisations or entities whatsoever with whom I have been, am now or will be affiliated. Reference to Bempton Cliffs in NO way promotes the organisation known as RSPB Bempton Cliffs, but rather the FREEdom of the cliffs.

Thursday, 5 March 2020

Bempton Village to Bempton Cliffs - 5th March 2020

My first Puffin of 2020! (Heavily cropped!)

An almost perfect but cool spring morning with sunshine and blue sky just begged for a walk with Symphony up to the cliffs! So much bird song and displaying made it a good to be alive morning enabling the problems and worries of the world to be put to one side.

Wren



Yellowhammer



Arriving on the cliffs, it was a "WOW" day! All of Bempton's main eight cliff breeding birds (Gannet; Fulmar; Herring Gull; Razorbill; Guillemot; Puffin; Kittiwake; Shag) were present in varying numbers, on cliff, on the sea or in flight. Walking from Grandstand viewpoint to Bartlett Nab I probably underestimated the numbers with 10,000+ Guillemots; 200+ Razorbills; 20+ Puffins (5+ on the cliffs)!

The Puffins were quite hard to spot!! The first image has one Puffin, the following three have two!





Heavily cropped images from the above!





A good number of Guillemots, but how many in this image are Bridled?


Just a few Guillemots!


Comparison of Guillemots (L) and Razorbills (R)



Razorbills




And finally, Fulmar



As I said, a good day!
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