• Kittiwake Monitoring at Bempton Cliffs
    Image: Kittiwake and chicks, Martin Jones-Gill This week, I’m delving into the world of kittiwake monitoring! This is carried out in a pretty similar way to the herring gull monitoring I do here,...
  • Tricks of the seabird monitoring trade
    It's all go up on the cliffs for both the birds and the seabird monitoring team. Mike, one of our dedicated volunteers, has decided to give us some background to their work in his latest update. Now...
  • Reflections on the season: seabird monitoring
    Welcome to the first of an occasional series of blog posts looking back at the 2014 seabird monitoring programme at Bempton Cliffs. It’s hard to believe, but the 2014 seabird monitoring season at Bempton...
  • Herring Gull Monitoring at Bempton Cliffs
    Each week, I head out on to the reserve to monitor a selection of herring gull nests. This year I’m keeping an eye on around 20 AOS (apparently occupied sites) that I’ve marked up across the reserve,...
  • Seabird Productivity Monitoring at Bempton Cliffs: What is it?
    Ahead of World Seabird Day tomorrow, our next blog of our seabird series is all about the fantastic productivity monitoring we carry out here and why we do it. So… what is productivity monitoring? ...