StoneRoad2013's photos with the keyword: Bass Rock

The Scottish Seabird Centre at North Berwick. This was extensively refurbished - with a new, interactive, discovery centre in 2019, and this was my first visit since then. www.seabird.org en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scottish_Seabird_Centre The seated seabird is, I think, an arctic tern, judging by the profile, especially the tail. [Sterna paradisaea - and probably the most travelled of migrating birds] Although, given the Bass Rock in the background I was expecting it to be a gannet or a kittiwake.

Bass Rock, from East Bay, North Berwick. One of the more significant gannet breeding colonies. Maybe, sometime soon & in good weather, I'll get a boat trip around the rock. [Geologically, it's a volcanic plug ...] en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bass_Rock The little white dot on the right of the island is the Lighthouse [Built & designed by David Stevenson in 1902 using locally available stone from demolishing the castle keep & other buildings, and gas lit until it was automated in 1988] en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bass_Rock_Lighthouse

Bronze statue of a bird watcher [twitcher] gazing through binoculars at Bass Rock in the distance, erected in 2014. In the breeding season, this rock hosted an enormous colony of gannets [Sula bassana] and other nesting seabirds. Sadly, avian flu, pollution and climate change [reduction in sand eels] have reduced the gannet numbers by around a third in the past few years [from 2019 - before covid - and this year, 2023]. The only bright news is that the gannet numbers are recovering slightly, and some birds appear to have developed a degree of immunity - their eyes have very dark blue or black iris].