Hello all
I was at Fowlsheugh on Sunday, leading our penultimate guided walk, two takers and our youngest participant so far..13th month old Rosie. I was a bit worried driving down, as the season was very early this year and I was a bit concerned there would be nothing to look at. However, as I got out of my car, I heard the usual racket of the kittiwakes, some passing sandwich terns and a couple of screaming peregrines, so I knew it was going to be a good day.
There were still plenty of young kittiwakes around, many flying around the cliffs and no sign of any more dead ones at the bottom of the cliffs, so the chicks that survived the storms in early July appeared to have thrived. There were also quite a few fat and fluffy fulmar chicks.
But the highlight of the day was thirty puffins bobbing in the water near the end of our trail, next to our interpretation board about puffins. Neither of my two companions had seen puffins before, nor their daughter, young Rosie. I was a bit envious of her, I wish I had seen puffins at 13th months old. However, she didn't seem that impressed, she was actually asleep by this time!
Our last guided walk is on Wednesday...every walk so far has included puffin sightings..so what are you waiting for?.....
Vicky