I have recently had the good fortune to witness two instances that define the word "spectacle", happening just now in the natural world not in far away places but on our doorstep, a combined total of hundreds of thousands of birds are in residence on the Isle of May and Bass rock at the mouth of the Firth of Forth. On my first visit to the "May" it felt like every one of the tens of thousands of puffins were reluctant to leave to go fishing. A virtual carousel of swirling avian beings. Awesome spectacle one.

Awesome spectacle two relates to the Bass Rock (pictured), It's hard to describe the impact on one's brain of being in the presence of seventy five thousand pair's of Gannets, the largest of the Northern hemisphere's seabirds, just sitting within their midst taking in the noise and smell, dodging wing's as they come and go has left an impression that will long remain in the memory.