RSPB Ramsey Island, Pembrokeshire
RSPB Ramsey Island is recognised as a Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI), Special Protection Area (SPA) and a Natura 2000 site.
RSPB Ramsey Island is located just 1 mile off the St David's peninsula and a 3.5 mile trail, tough going and rugged in some places, provides a route around it. The summits of Carn Ysgubor and Carn Llundain give amazing views east to the mainland, south to Skomer Island and, on the clearest of days, west to Ireland.
At nearly 400 feet high in some places, the western cliffs on RSPB Ramsey Island are among the highest in Wales. These provide nesting sites for breeding Guillemots, Razorbills, Kittiwakes, Fulmars, Choughs and Ravens. A large Atlantic Grey Seal colony lives around the island, with pups born in September and October, and Harbour Porpoise often feed in Ramsey Sound.
Other habitats in the interior of the island include grassland and heathland providing breeding habitat for Wheatears, Stonechats, Meadow Pipits, Linnets and Skylarks.
In 1999/2000 RSPB Ramsey Island was finally cleared of the Brown Rats that had decimated the island's bird populations for 100 years. The highest standards of bio-security are still maintained in order to ensure rats and mice, which have disastrous impacts on seabird colonies, are never re-introduced to the island again.
Date: 6th June 2023
Location: view from Pembrokeshire Coast Path at St. David's Head
RSPB Ramsey Island is located just 1 mile off the St David's peninsula and a 3.5 mile trail, tough going and rugged in some places, provides a route around it. The summits of Carn Ysgubor and Carn Llundain give amazing views east to the mainland, south to Skomer Island and, on the clearest of days, west to Ireland.
At nearly 400 feet high in some places, the western cliffs on RSPB Ramsey Island are among the highest in Wales. These provide nesting sites for breeding Guillemots, Razorbills, Kittiwakes, Fulmars, Choughs and Ravens. A large Atlantic Grey Seal colony lives around the island, with pups born in September and October, and Harbour Porpoise often feed in Ramsey Sound.
Other habitats in the interior of the island include grassland and heathland providing breeding habitat for Wheatears, Stonechats, Meadow Pipits, Linnets and Skylarks.
In 1999/2000 RSPB Ramsey Island was finally cleared of the Brown Rats that had decimated the island's bird populations for 100 years. The highest standards of bio-security are still maintained in order to ensure rats and mice, which have disastrous impacts on seabird colonies, are never re-introduced to the island again.
Date: 6th June 2023
Location: view from Pembrokeshire Coast Path at St. David's Head
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