We’re up in Yorkshire for the weekend, and today was our rather delayed visit to the East Coast. Starting at Flamborough, we added Puffin, Manx Shearwater and Shag to the year list, although it was a bit slow. Moving on to Bempton we were turned away: the car park was full and they had sensibly not opened the overflow car park. Rather than miss out, we decided to go on to Speeton and then walk back towards the reserve along the cliff top. This was a good decision as there were plenty of birds, particularly Puffins, at this end of the cliffs, and hardly any people. In the absence of people in lockdown, the birds have been nesting higher up the cliffs, so we had very good view of Gannet – we even had to shoo one off the path in front of us.
