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Marsden Rock has always been an important bird colony in the UK and on sunny Sundays in Spring and Summer you'll find lots of bird watchers. Until a few years ago it featured a natural arch but part of the arch of the smaller of stacks collapsed in 1996 and the remainder for safety reasons. The rock reduced the space available for thousands of competing kittiwakes, fulmars, gulls and cormorants although many found new nesting sites on the nearby cliffs.
On the rocks are mostly cormorants - 250 breeding pairs and one of the largest colonies in England.
