Photographing Gannets For The First Time at Bempton Cliffs

If you are keen to photograph birds during the summer months, you really should head to the coast because it is just brimming with life at this time of year.

Even though the weather was pretty poor over the weekend, I headed over to Yorkshire for my first visit to the RSPB reserve at Bempton Cliffs. While I had enjoyed photographing seabirds on the Farne Islands just a few weeks earlier, I was keen to see and photograph Gannets for the very first time.

The weather may have been very gloomy and very rainy but the birds did not disappoint... up close, the Gannets are just beautiful. A large number of the Gannets can be seen at the far end of the reserve and the bird swooped and soared over the cliffs - putting on quite the display. And when they came into land, many also obliged by posing for pictures.

However, it is not all about Gannets at Bempton Cliffs, as there were still plenty of Razorbills, Guillemots and Kittiwakes on show - some still had young.

If you are keen on catching sight of a puffin this summer, you are running out of time. Many of the puffin residents at Bempton Cliffs have already gone back out to sea - but there were a few dotted around the cliffs.

Guillemots

Guillemots

Puffin

Razorbills

It may not have been the warm and sunny day that all of us visiting Bempton Cliffs would have hoped for, but I left with the images that I was looking for. The site is doing some wonderful conservation work and is a very special place.