Seabird City

Bempton Cliffs RSPB Reserve in East Yorkshire, is one of my favourite photographic destinations. The 400 foot high white chalk cliffs are home to over 200,000 seabirds. The cliff-top fields support numerous farmland birds, whilst tree sparrows nest around the visitor centre.

Clifftop at Bempton Cliffs

Over the Bank Holiday weekend, Julia and I spent three days at Bempton, also visiting Flambourough Head and Buckton. Needless to say we took rather a lot of photographs.

Gannets were constantly flying along the cliff, often stalling in the wind as they came into land or collect nest material.

Gannets that were collecting grass for their nests were quite often just over the fence and the red campion made an excellent job of framing some of the gannets.

The R5 and RF100-500 proved to be an excellent combination for flight shots of the fast flying Auks - guillemots, razorbills and the clown-faced Atlantic puffins.

Of course we still photographed the birds on the ledges.

Razorbill

Guillemot

Atlantic Puffin

The hedgerows and cliff-top fields are always worth checking for farmland birds - corn bunting, tree sparrow, yellowhammer and whitethroat.

Sedge Warbler

Yellowhammer

Jackdaw

Tree Sparrow

Common Whitethroat