Huzzah! It’s Chough time!
Our lovely little corvid friends have hatched their first egg! At around 11.30am on Saturday 5th May we were watching our Chough camera in the Visitor Centre and Ellin’s Tower and saw the male removing half an egg shell from the nest. This is very exciting news as this is five days earlier than last year!
Chough are the rarest member of the crow family, with only 462 breeding pairs in the UK, 11 of which are on our reserve! This is a very important site for Chough; we do a lot of work to provide good feeding conditions close to the nest sites so the parents can take lots of food back to their young! Management includes heather burning; close shepherding with sheep grazing, cattle grazing and more recently a trial of heather mowing to get rid of old rank heather and encourage lots of diversity and new growth.
Join us at the RSPB South Stack Visitor centre to see the Chough on our live camera and witness more eggs hatching this weekend! We are open from 10am year round.