Tag: Rissa tridactyla
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Kittiwakes with nowhere to go!
Imagine coming back from a winter spent at sea to find that your nest site is no longer there! That’s what’s happening to many kittiwakes in Scarborough this year. You’ve come back and have found your long lost love – kittiwake pairs do not stay together during the winter – but the euphoria is heavily…
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Katie the Kittiwake goes to sea
The Kittiwake nests are all empty now in Scarborough; on the cliffs and in the town, the birds have all gone. Long gone. Gone to sea. Katie did not want to go to sea; she wanted to stay on her ledge above Marks and Spencer and try all the lovely food her gull-friends on the…
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Katie the kittiwake – a story for children (of all ages!)
Katie was born – if born is the right word for a bird which hatches out of an egg – on a ledge, three storeys up, above the back entrance to Mark’s and Sparks. Katie’s parents had nested there for many years and brought up all of Katie’s brothers and sisters on this tiny ledge.…
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