The Farne Islands off the Northumberland coast are a haven for puffins, terns and kittiwakes.
An internationally-important seabird colony which shut to human visitors for two years due to bird flu is reopening this week.
Visitors have been restricted from going ashore for the past two years after an outbreak of avian flu which killed at least 6,000 birds in 2022 and around 3,650 last year. Now, the first migrating seabirds are beginning to return to the islands to breed. They will depart once their chicks are fully fledged, at the end of the summer.
The National Trust manages the Farnes with wildlife rangers looking after the puffins, terns, kittiwakes and other species.Sophia Jackson, area ranger for the National Trust, said: “The last two years have been really tough, but we are keeping everything crossed that the birds are starting to build natural resilience to bird flu.
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