and no trip to seahouses is complete without a trip out to the farnes islands.he last two years, the farnes, an internationally important habitat for 23 species of birds, have been closed to visitors. bird flu caused the death of 9,000 birds, and for national trust wardens, it's meant the grimmest time. they'd have to deal with that number of carcasses at the time, it was over 6,000 dead birds in 2022. so you can be prepared for it, but it's quite upsetting. but next month inner fame is reopening to visitors again. now we feel we've got the evidence to back up the fact that there's less avian flu. the numbers of birds affected have reduced roughly by half. often we got over 40,000 puffins will land up on the islands. so we're looking forward to all of those birds coming back. also able to look forward again, andrew, who runs boat tours. he lost half his business while the farnes were shut. you don't get any photographers because they just want the picture of the puffin with the sand eels in their bill, you know? so if you can't get that kind of picture, you know

and no trip to seahouses is complete without a trip out to the farnes islands.grimmest time. they'd have to deal with that number of carcasses at the time, it was over 6,000 dead birds in 2022. so you can be prepared for it, but it's quite upsetting. but next month inner fame is reopening to visitors again. now we feel we've got the evidence to back up the fact that there's less avian flu. the numbers of birds affected have reduced roughly by half. often we got over a0,000 puffins will land up on the islands. so we're looking forward to all of those birds coming back. also able to look forward again, andrew, who runs boat tours. he lost half his business while the farnes were shut. you don't get any photographers because they just want the picture of the puffin with the sand eels in their bill, you know? so if you can't get that kind of picture, you know, they don't want to be up and down on a boat sometimes, so you need to be islands to be open. so fingers crossed, it's all good for everybody. the b&bs and the hotels, this willjust help them as well because peo