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The walk over Holyhead Mountain to South Stack is reward enough thanks to the beauty of the area. Once there there's the added bonus of puffins and choughs!

We have another great offer for you today. Buy a pair of our fantastic new Puffin binoculars and get a copy of the RSPB Pocket Guide to British Birds worth £4.99, absolutely FREE . Order item R402705 and use offer code t11gen0187 in the shopping basket to get the discount. RSPB Puffin...

Hello, This is my a first blog post. A truly momentous day. It is thus only fitting that I commence this post the way that all good blog posts should commence: with a photo of two grown men sweating in bird costumes. One in orange pantaloons, the other in white leggings. Fortunately the photographer...

I've just recieved this fabulous photo from Lesley Nundy in our Youth and Education Team, and had to share! It was taken at the Thriplow Daffodil weekend earlier this year. Fowlmere RSPB Wildlife Explorer members had a great time promoting their club and the RSPB Wildlife Explorer " I’m...

This is summary of July's birds on the reserve from our resident expert Ken Croft... "The thriving sea-bird colony gave visitors a spectacular display this month with Puffin, Guillemot, Razorbill, Fulmar, Kittiwake, Herring Gull, Lesser Black-backed Gull and Great Black-backed Gull all frantically...

The last in a short series of diaries about birds on the reserve from Ken Croft. Hopefully, in the future we'll round of the previous month with one of his summaries..! "In a month with no real highlights here are the highlights. A Little Grebe dropped in on 30th, Grey Herons were regular...

Thanks to our local bird-expert I am happy to share with you a retrospective look at the months gone by on the reserve. Here is April's 'birding' summary in the words of Ken Croft: "The first Swallow arrived on the 2nd along with at least 60 Chiffchaffs and 6 Blackcaps. A late Redwing...

Hi everyone, If you want to get closer to wildlife then get your mits on the RSPB's new Puffin 8x32 binoculars at just £49.95. If you'd like to try them out then and ask to have a go. Bye for now, Ben.

After a short break in the East Midlands, I was welcomed back to the island with a boat trip around our dramatic coast. It was a truly wonderful way to view the reserve. Setting off from Trearddur Bay on a rigid-hulled inflatable, our tour rook in the sights of the eastlerly part of the reserve (the...

Today we had our first close-ups of an emerging baby Puffin, termed a Puffling. It was great to see him/her after all the waiting. It's parents were close at hand preening in the sunshine earlier today. If you want to see these little ones you'll have to come and visit soon as we expect them...

Puffin at Bempton saturday 16th April.

Coquet

Coquet puffin

RSPB Bempton Cliffs, May 2010.

Hi corni That sounds like a wonderful day out. I have never seen a puffin. :-) Thank you for sharing your puffin photo with us. :-)

Puffin pops out of its burrow to feed

I've been a few Whitsun holiday times and never failed on Puffins then..... JBNTS

Though not in the Farne Islands league Bempton Cliffs can yield pretty good photo opportunities. Here's one of mine from years before digital photography reached the twinkle in the eye stage. It was an icy cold spring morning and I had to rise at stupid o'clock to get it. The rising sun gave...

Hi All, a few months back there was numerous threads about where the best places to see Puffins and other Sea Bird colonies are in the UK! I remember discussing with certain members about my experiences at the Farne Islands over the years. I recall stating that I must return as it had been several...

Wow! Skomer Island ( I got engaged there) Puffins are now posing as well as their Farne Islands cousins. Weather looked good too..... JBNTS

We saw some great birds on our trip to Skomer. In fact it started well before we had even left the mainland as there were swallows nesting in the public toilets at St Martins which is the small cove where you get the boat. Anywhere else you would be in danger of being arrested for hanging about by public...

Hello, I'm back from a holiday in South Pembrokeshire which included my long awaited trip to Skomer Island to see puffins and it was well worth the wait. They were just briliant :-)) The weather was lovely and the crossing calm and on the way the boat stopped for us to see porpoises which was...

Hi, I met a birder at the coast one day with an exhausted puffin in their jacket top pocket. A dozen other birders walked past us as we chatted and only one of them noticed the puffin! S

My moment of magic There are so many moments; should I tell of the few minutes that a buzzard and I looked at each other from about 5 feet apart (due to the path being higher on the hill than the tree); or of suddenly hearing choughs high above me on Islay alerting me to their fantastic aerobatics above...

Rather grumpy with each other, with a couple of hours to kill, we spotted "reserve" on the road map and ended up at Bempton which we had never heard of! 10 minutes later my husband saw his first puffin and the rest of the day we were all smiles.

Having only ever seen one solitary puffin from far away, we went on a boat trip to the Farne Islands this summer - amazing!! You couldn't move for puffins - there were hundreds, along with many terns, shags and guillemots. What a spectacle!