One month until the seabirds are here! (1 Viewer)

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Lmc3598

Well-known member

• Feb 27, 2011

• #1

Who else is excited that in one month until the puffins and other seabirds will here to breed? I certainly am!

 

Neil-T

Moorlands Macro: Close up and personal....with bug

• Feb 27, 2011

• #2

Spent today on Anglesey, North Wales, looks like they are already on the way. We saw several Gannet, double figures of Black Guillemot, common Guillemot, Razorbill and quite a few sea ducks, including Eider and Common scoter. Keep a watch as they may here sooner than you think. Neil.

 

dantheman

Bah humbug

• Feb 27, 2011

• #3

First Puffin on the sea off Portland Bill the other day (still just about breeding up there). Manxies down in Cornwall too.

But yes, on the breeding cliffs and in numbers, well worth looking forward to!!

 

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Simon Wates

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• Feb 27, 2011

• #4

Auk colonies are one of the things I most miss since I left the UK in 1982. Here in Lagos, Portugal I see Puffins on northbound migration as late as early April - my two highest counts are:

23-03-1998 - c.200 birds in 1 hour
03-04-1998 - 123 birds in 2 hours

 

kawwauser

Well-known member

• Mar 2, 2011

• #5

one of the highlights of the year for me,i have a seabird colony within 18 miles of me (arbroath)and i spend many hours here enjoying the sight and sounds of the auks/fulmars/smaller birds ,i also have a larger breeding population 70 miles away, (fowlsheugh) 10,000s of birds,i try to visit here once a year, i also have the bass rock (gannets) about a similar distance ,there is something about seabird colonys which has always facinated me,maybe it is the large numbers of birds or the easy viewing who knows, personally i cant wait

 

eagle golden

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• Mar 2, 2011

• #6

Has anyone any idiea when the puffins will be on the farne isles, as we have booked a long weekend 25th march, and we are hoping to see them, thanks

 

dafi

Well-known member

• Mar 7, 2011

• #7

We Guillimots on the cliffs, They come and go of course but at least they are back. We have also had the first report of puffins on the sea last week.

 

S West

Member

• Mar 29, 2011

• #8

eagle golden said:

Has anyone any idiea when the puffins will be on the farne isles, as we have booked a long weekend 25th march, and we are hoping to see them, thanks

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Did you see the Puffins? There are some there by now!