About the reserve

Stunning sea views and excellent views of nesting puffins can be seen from the cliff tops from mid May to mid July. (Be sure to join us at our annual Yorkshire Puffin Festival usually the first weekend in June.) Look out too for fulmar, kittiwake, guillemots and razorbills. 

Flamborough has buckets (and spades!) of coastal charm and the beaches, caves and rockpools delight us all year round.

The headland, jutting out into the North sea, is a renowned and raucous bird migration hotspot, especially in spring and autumn, with rarities attracting birdwatchers from all over the country. The grassy clifftops and gullies host a wide variety of chalkland plants, butterflies, and songbirds. 

There's no better place for sea watching  

The waters around Flamborough Head are full of food for seabirds and other marine wildlife due to the 'Flamborough Front'- the meeting of cold and warm water creates an upwelling of nutrients and plankton. In spring and summer watch gleaming white gannets plunging into the sea for fish, in late summer and autumn look for passing skuas and shearwaters, and in winter watch for divers and sea ducks. 

There's a wealth of marine mammals here too. On a calm day, watch from the playful splashes of bottle-nosed dolphins, the arched back and black fin of a harbour porpoise, the bobbing head of a seal, or even a minke whale.