This tiny island is home to one of the largest colonies of gannets.
As you approaches the island by boat, the stench becomes overbearing.
Gannets have now colonized the island in huge numbers, probably arriving from Lundy island where they were disturbed.
By the 1890’s there were 200 or more and in 1905 Cardiff Naturalists Society recorded 300 breeding pairs.
Gannet population has been steadily increasing since.
The cacophony of sounds they make is deafening.
