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Seabirds And Whales A Yorkshire Adventure 2025
Staithes, North Yorkshire
A Birding and Cetacean Safari on the Sea! 2025
Seabirds And Whales A Yorkshire Adventure 2025
A Birding and Cetacean Safari on the Sea! 2025
These special longer boat trips will sail from the wonderful fishing village of Staithes. These trips will last up to five hours. For a shorter three hour Seabird and Whale trip CLICK HERE.
On our Yorkshire Coast Nature Seabird & Whale Trips in 2024 we saw many seabirds including: Arctic Skuas, Great Skuas, Manx Shearwaters, Sooty Shearwaters, Balearic Shearwaters, Great Shearwater, Atlantic Puffins, Guillemots, Razorbills, Fulmars, Arctic, Common and Roseate Terns, thousands of diving Gannets, Red-throated Divers, Common Scoters and much more including migrant song birds crossing the North Sea and even Peregrine Falcons.
The Yorkshire coast, once famous for its whaling fleet which sailed from Whitby is now becoming famous for its whale watching!
In late summer Minke Whales appear, following the Mackerel shoals, these fantastic mammals are the most regularly seen large cetacean on our coast, watch the YCN video below from some up close whale action. Harbour Porpoise are with us throughout the year and seen on most of our trips. Bottle-nosed Dolphins are now being seen all year round on the coast in increasing numbers. In 2024 we also enjoyed great views of Humpback Whales!
These special five hour trips have been designed to allow the flexibility to target the best stretch of coastline depending on where the seabird and/or cetacean action is prior to the tour.
In 2024 we will run our trips from Staithes again with Sean Baxter as our skipper with 5 hours at sea.
Throughout the trip you will have a great opportunity to learn about field craft and identification from our local expert guides in a small friendly group environment. Each tour includes the boat trip and an expert YCN guide in a small group environment. The meeting point will be the harbour Staithes village in North Yorkshire. A meeting place map will be sent by email along with your booking details.
Please Note:
If you have any mobility issues please email us prior to booking info@yorkshirecoastnature.co.uk
Access to the boat is by a short ladder from the harbour side
Payment must be made in advance of any booking. All bookings will be confirmed by email which will contain important details of your trip.
Please email us to confirm you have read and understood the instructions and keep your email safe.
Richard Baines PGdip MCIEEM
Company Director And Birding/Wildlife Guide
Richard’s love of birds and wildlife started at age nine when he watched wide eyed as a charm of European Goldfinch fed on a thistle within a few feet of him in the grounds of his primary school. The next day he was busy drawing the flock in his art class./tutors/2/richard-baines-pgdip-mcieem
Mark Pearson BSc Hons
Birding/Wildlife Guide
Mark is an obsessive Yorkshire coast birder and naturalist whose roles include wildlife guide, ecologist, speaker, writer and educator. He is well known as a passionate, exceptional communicator, whether in the field with YCN clients, in the classroom with/tutors/6/mark-pearson-bsc-hons
Jono Leadley BSc Hons
Birding/Wildlife Guide
Jono is a self-confessed nature geek. His passion started at an early age, firstly with birds and then broadening into all forms of wildlife and this interest has taken him all over the world. [image]3[/image] Jono obtained his first degree in Ecology at the/tutors/14/jono-leadley-bsc-hons
Margaret Boyd BSc PGCE
Birding/Wildlife Guide
Margaret has been a keen birder from an early age, growing up in the Ribble Valley, in Lancashire. At a younger age Margaret spent most of her time out in the field on her local patch as well as birding across the country and abroad. She spent a summer as an/tutors/17/margaret-boyd-bsc-pgce
James Fair 2017
what a great day. I remember on the way up in the car saying it should be fun, but that (and I am ashamed to say this now!) minke whales weren’t the most exciting whales in the world. I take it all back. That was more fun than any whale watching trip I think I’ve been on.
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