Please feed the pigeons
The seabird colonies of the Hebrides and the Shetlands are noisy, malodorous places. Thousands of kittiwakes, gannets and puffins come to breed, fight, defecate and die on a few overcrowded outcrops every spring. It is a spectacular scene: mounds of steaming guano, grotesque opened mouthed chicks, the collective scream of countless angry birds, and if you’re lucky, a flustered second-rate television presenter complaining about the smell. As the camera records terns plunging i