Bird lovers flock to sea cliffs.THE seabird breeding season Breeding season is the most suitable season usually with favorable conditions and abundant food and water when wild animals and birds (wildlife) have naturally evolved to breed to achieve the best reproductive success. is coming to an end and visitors will soon have their last chance to see the black and white birds that have nested at RSPB RSPB n abbr (Brit) (= Royal Society for the Protection of Birds) → LPO f RSPB (Brit) n abbr (= Royal Society for the Protection of Birds) → South Stack on Anglesey this summer. Every summer, thousands of guillemots and razorbills fly back from the open sea to breed on the cliffs at the popular reserve near Holyhead. Nesting on the vertical slopes of the cliff face on the western tip of the island, they only come to land to lay, incubate incubate /in·cu·bate/ (in´ku-bat) 1. to subject to or to undergo incubation. 2. material that has undergone incubation. in·cu·bate v. 1. and hatch their eggs over the warmer summer months before leaving again. RSPB South Stack is holding a Daring Departures Guided Walk on Saturday July 11 at 9pm. Booking for the event is essential and it costs pounds 3 for adults, pounds 1.50 for children (RSPB/Wildlife Explorer members are half price). For more information call 01407 764 973. Alternatively log onto www.rspb.org.uk/southstack |
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