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We walked in to do Emulator today, there is an Oystercatcher nesting (if you can call it that; it’s done a fairly abysmal job of building a nest) in a crack on the black slab below the route. It has two eggs which would very easily be stepped on if you weren’t paying attention and the bird was very agitated as we approached. I’m not a bird expert but perhaps it would be best to avoid this area until the end of July?

I’ve marked it on the picture below. 

Just to get it moved back up the list, so that people read this thread.

Have added a note to the BMC RAD

I can't see the oystercatcher. Do you have a better photo?

Everyone's a critic.

They don't really build nests, they lay in a scoop in shingle or just on bare rock. You can tell when you're close as they zoom around you making a complete racket, but not so close as to tell you when you're getting close to the egg if you know what I mean - I think they try to distract you more than anything. They'll do this at any time of day or night, they regularly disturb my midnight bass fishing sessions (even though I'm well below the high tide mark and nowhere near any nests).

I had the pleasure of seeing a gull chick hatching yesterday. Abbed past a ledge on a route and paused to look at something and noticed a quiet 'meep meep meep'.  Looked and saw a gull's nest with two eggs, so carried on looking for a chick as they have a habit of wandering out of the nest but couldn't see one. Then saw a beak poking out one of the eggs .  Quickly abbed away and chose a different route to climb back out. Hopefully the parents were brave enough to return past the ab rope, it was hanging well away.