Gannets beak tapping

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We packed up and left Whitby and on the way home stopped at Bempton Cliffs RSPB Nature Reserve.  I first went there in the early 1970s when it was just a walk through the fields (masses of skylarks above) to the cliffs. Now there's a big visitor's centre, nature trails and health and safety measures. Sadly the skylarks have gone.

The cliffs are the largest inland gannet colony and there are around half a million of them raising their chicks on the cliffs.

My main photo is of a pair beak tapping to cement their pair bond. The extras are a gannet in flight and a juvenile kittiwake.