The kindness of strangers – and the support of husbands – helped a group of East Yorkshire women, complete an epic bike ride during August.

Liz Wood, from Nafferton, a volunteer at RSPB Bempton Cliffs, and three friends cycled up to 8O miles a day during a two week trek that took them from Land’s End to John O’Groats.  

The women met as part of the Driffield Breeze Cycling Group and have been…

Are you a winker? Can you close one eye whilst keeping the other open? It may sound simple but not everyone can do this - as a volunteer at Bempton Cliffs discovered.

Ian Crossley has been helping out at the award-winning nature reserve since the beginning of the year. His main role has been showing visitors on the viewpoints the reserve’s seabirds – including the magnificent gannets. But he encountered a problem.…

Claire Reed and son Isaac had a big surprise when they decided to become members of the RSPB on a recent visit to Bempton Cliffs. 

 As the 1000^th membership of the season, they not only received their membership goodies but also took home a cuddly puffin puppet to mark the occasion.    

 Claire, a holistic therapist in Doncaster, said: 

‘We were going to visit Flamingoland but at the last minute changed our plans and went…

Next time you rinse out your empty plastic milk bottle don’t drop it in the recycling bin, drop it off at Bempton Cliffs.

The team at the award-winning RSPB nature reserve is currently getting creative and turning bottles into birds in a bid to raise awareness of both its gannet colony and the state of the ocean.

Over the next few weeks, staff and volunteers are going to be making a sky full of plastic birds…

Being outdoors can really benefit those with mental health issues.  Visitor Experience Assistant Sophie Wilson, spoke to a recent visitor to the cliff tops who has direct experience of this.  Our thanks go to Jackie Pluck for speaking to us about his difficult subject.   

This week, one of our lovely visitors was kind enough to share her story with us in honour of Mental Health Awareness Week. Jacqueline Pluck was born with…

If slithery, slippery things aren’t your bag, you should spend some time with our Learning Officer, Kerry Fieldhouse. And if that time happens to be around six in the morning, all the better. Because at that unearthly hour of the day she, along with her insomniac band of volunteers, is likely to be found fishing around in search of newts - an experience that's sure to make you feel all warm and gooey about things…

Puffins

The weather forecast for today at Bempton was not good - rain all morning. However, it is good that no one can predict the weather on the cliffs and the rain failed to arrive! It was rather chilly throughout the morning, becoming milder during the afternoon, with some sunshine.

The seabirds performed magnificently reinforcing the Bempton "three S's" - sight, sound and smell!

So what was seen…