Double celebration for seabird centre

THE Scottish Seabird Centre, North Berwick, has two reasons to celebrate: the first gannets of the year have landed on Bass Rock, and the centre has been named Nature Reserve of the Year by the BBC’s Countryfile magazine.

The gannet sighting is a significant milestone at the start of the nesting season on the Firth of Forth islands. 

The area is of international importance for seabirds and over the coming months it will be home to approximately 500,000 seabirds.

They will Include puffins, cormorants, kittiwakes, guillemots, razorbills, fulmars, shags, and terns. 

Scotland is home to some 60% of the world's population of North Atlantic gannets. 

By the summer, the Bass Rock – 2.5miles – from North Berwick, will be crammed with more than 150,000 gannets.

Boat trips to the Bass Rock start from March 21.

www.seabird.org

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Picture Credit: "Arctic Tern Sculpture at the SeaBird Centre, North Berwick - geograph.org.uk - 1198452" by Barbara Carr via Wikimedia Commons; "Razorbills (Alca torda) in a shower" by Steve Garvie from Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland via Wikimedia Commons.