The Bass Rock

No trip to North Berwick is complete without a blip of the Bass Rock - home to the world's largest colony of Northern gannets, over 150,000 of them at peak season. The lower ledges of the Bass are home to shags, guillemots and razorbills, with seals hauling up on the rocks below.

If you look hard - and go large - you should be able to see individual birds on the rock and also in the air around it. In the summer the rock shines white in the sun from the birds' plumage, and although many of the birds have gone, you can still get the effect to some degree.

I blipped this from the headland at Tyninghame which neither T nor I had visited for years. You have to walk a bit from the car park to get to the shore, so that keeps the numbers down and it isn't signed from anywhere. But that doesn't deter the dog walkers!