Step 1: Trips to Skomer open for bookings towards the end of each year. You’ll arrive by boat via Martin’s Haven. Look out for birds as you sail!
Step 2: May- June is the best time for puffins. In 2025 there were nearly 350,000 breeding pairs of Manx Shearwaters, over 41,500 Puffins, thousands of Guillemots, Razorbills and Kittiwakes and hundreds of Fulmars.
Step 3: There are 100ish steps from where the boats docks to the first path. You’ll hopefully be greeted with lots of birds like we were.
Step 4: After your briefing from the wildlife staff, head on up the sloped path. Remember to walk anticlockwise around the island.
Step 5: We headed right on the smaller path and saw a family of Oystercatchers on this rocky outcrop with 2 chicks.
Step 6: Follow the smaller path to the main path and head right towards the buildings at the centre of the island