East Coast Excursions
Saturday 2nd - Sunday 10th July 2016 Puffin with puffling, Bempton Cliffs On Sunday (10th) I went on another West Midland Bird Club field trip with 'Team Kestrel', this time to East Yorkshire. First stop was RSPB Bempton Cliffs, and what a treat. This was my first visit here, and I can't remember how long I have wanted to go. The impressive hard chalk cliffs here are home to nesting Puffins , Gannets (only mainland breeding colony in England I believe), Guillemots , Razorbills , Kittiwakes and Fulmars . It was also nice seeing c10 Tree Sparrows around the visitor centre feeders - they seem to have disappeared from Gloucestershire. I heard a Grasshopper Warbler reeling briefly from long grass near one of the cliff viewpoints, the first of the year for me. Puffin, Bempton Puffin, Bempton Puffin, Bempton Puffin, Bempton Gannets, Bempton Gannet, Bempton Gannet chick, Bempton Guillemots, Bempton Guillemots, Bempton Fulmars, Bempton ...