A stack of seabirds

As you approach this rocky pinnacle just off the precipitous coast of Dinas Head, you notice two things: one, it's noisy, and two, it's white. And three, smelly, if the wind is in your direction.

As you get closer you can see it's covered with birds clinging to every ledge and edge, crack and cranny, birds jostling and shuffling, birds flapping and calling, birds landing and taking off...

Because in summer this sea stack is a seabirds' nursery cum filling-station. The eggs have hatched, the fledglings are hungry and the parents are flogging back and forth with breakfast, lunch, tea and supper for every gaping mouth.

There are razorbills and guillemots in their hundreds here, not to mention gulls and shags, maybe fulmars too. Worth a detour for any ornithologist, even (like today) in the rain.