Just as the Summer's juvenile birds are striking out on their own another crop of youngsters are making their appearance, Grey seal pup's. On the two largest of the forth's islands, The May and Inchkeith Hundreds of seals take over the islands to give birth, Amazingly in the short space of five weeks or so their pup's will be abandoned to look after themselves, the cows then come into season again, becoming the focus for the large bull seals which dominate their beach space.
By the years end all this frenetic activity will have come to a halt when once again the Islands will be home to roosting gulls and lesser numbers of seals.