• 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...
  • 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,...
  • 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...
  • Spectacular Seabird Monitoring: An introduction
    An awful lot of work goes on behind the scenes at Bempton Cliffs. Between staff and volunteers, we conduct a whole host of seabird research here. From colony counts, to productivity monitoring and even...
  • 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,...