Birds and flowers seen on windy clifftop walk from Thornwick Bay to Bempton Cliffs - 6th June 2026

Pretty mauve wild Orchid growing on the cliffs

Little valley filled with Red Campion and Cow Parsley or Hemlock flowers

Cow Parsley or Hemlock?

Sheep with bare backside!

Two Atlantic Puffins and lots of Guillemots on the cliff near Thornwick Bay behind a curtain of pretty Red Campion flowers

Closer view of Atlantic Puffins on the cliffs

Puffins and Razorbills

One Puffin on the cliff and one Puffin gone!

Gathering nesting material

He's behind you!

Time to go home!

More Atlantic Puffins and a Razorbill

Further along the cliffs and before reaching the RSPB reserve, there were many Northern Gannets slowly riding the wind and landing on the edge of the cliff in order to gather nesting material

A Puffin on the cliffs just outside the RSPB reserve

Looking back towards Thornwick Bay

Meadow Pipit on Cow Parsley

Puffins with something to say at Bempton Cliffs!

Atlantic Puffin surrounded by Razorbills

Pair of Puffins near their burrow in the cliff face

Pair of loved-up Northern Gannets

Pair of noisy Fulmars

Noisy Razorbill

Pretty Red Campion flowers in varying shades of pink

Young and adult Gannets having an argument

Adult Gannet admiring the daisy-like flowers

Closer look at the young Gannet

More arguing Gannets!

Young Moorhen near the small pond by the woodland walk at Bempton Cliffs

Male Reed Bunting on top of a hedge along the woodland walk

Female Reed Bunting on a grassy path

Male Linnet perching on top of a twig

Kittiwakes gathering nesting material from the side of the cliff

Fulmar with something to say

Pair of Razorbills on the vertical side of the cliff

Puffin with head poking out of its burrow in the side of the cliff

Good to see that the research volunteers at RSPB Bempton Cliffs are harnessed while working!

Painted Lady butterfly on large Cow Parsley or Hemlock flower

Pair of Razorbills amongst a plethora of daisy-like flowers

Juvenile Gannet enjoying the windy day

Meadow Pipit posing on a post as I made my way back along the cliff from Bempton

and on a Cow Parsley flower

Plenty of wild flowers on the cliff from Bempton to Thornwick Bay

Puffin on the side of the cliff on the way to Thornwick

Meadow Pipit with food for the nestlings posed on the top of a post

Another Puffin on the cliff near Thornwick Bay

Back at the flower-filled valley

Hawthorn at the edge of the path near Thornwick Bay holiday park

Male Linnet on the hedge at the edge of the holiday park

Great, but very long and tiring, walk along the cliffs from Thornwick to Bempton and back - with lots of wildlife and flowers.  I needed to take it easy over the next few days in order to recover!