📌 Nature reserve in Crawton, Aberdeenshire
★★★★
The mostly quiet Aberdeenshire coastline south of Stonehaven has a very noisy surprise in store for nature lovers. 50 metre-tall cliffs at RSPB Fowlsheugh welcome over 130,000 seabirds every late spring and early summer along with the associated stink and sound. Guillemots, razorbills and kittiwakes are among the star species, and small numbers of puffins can often be seen on a grassy area below a dark cavity halfway up the cliff face. Gaze out to see, and you might even glimpse the odd seal or even dolphins. The sheer scale of the cliffs and breeding area is really quite impressive – a high-rise city with coastal views that any estate agent would wax lyrical about.
🌍 Location
📌 Minor road end at Crawton, 1 mi north of Catterline
🧭 O.S. Grid Reference: NO 881802
🛰️ GPS coordinates: 56.912824,-2.197449
❌ No public transport within 1 mi
🚗 Car park (gets full)
📝 Key info
⌚ Always open
🎫 Free
💬 From the car park it’s a 5 to 10-min walk through the reserve to the main viewpoints on narrow, clifftop paths with unprotected drops – care required (⬤ Easy).
