9 JUNE
2019 • 7:00AM
At
Bempton Cliffs on the Yorkshire coast, thousands of seabirds cloud the skies.
Dave Aitken, a warden at the RSPB
reserve, likens it to a snow globe that’s been shaken up. “The way they are
packed in and float around. How do they do that without bashing into each
other?”
Each
spring, somewhere around 84,000 guillemots, 22,000 gannets, 40,000 kittiwakes
and 27,000 razorbills come to lay their eggs in the rugged limestone cliffs
that rise 400ft from the North Sea.
“This is
probably one of the most special wildlife spectacles in all of Britain,” says
Aitken. “From the scale of it to the sheer cacophony of the seabirds. When all
the chicks are hatched and all the adults, we’ve probably got half...
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