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Magnificent Birds

The sea was calm on our boat trip to the Isle of May and we passed by the Bass Rock, famous for its gannet colony. We were able to get really close up to these magnificent birds. Some were sitting on eggs, some like this pair were rubbing beaks together as part of a courtship…

Puffin Paradise

Yesterday a friend and I went on a boat trip from Dunbar to the Isle of May. We had timed it for peak puffin season and we weren’t disappointed! There were tens of thousands of puffins on land and sea around the island. Many were busy bringing in sand eels to their hidden “puffling” chicks…

Chick Checking

While I was “over the pond” in the US I was aware that I’d be missing the chicks on our own nearby ponds and lochs. So I’ve been out looking to check for chicks, especially looking for cygnets and baby crested grebes. As I suspected, the ones I found were already many weeks old. The…

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