puffin

Another Puffin! well the same one, but I think it's a slightly better angle.

With quite a meal for Puffin Jnr!! Amazing how they catch and keep ahold of the fish. Especially the one at the back - it's no tiddler.

Does anyone know what is about at the moment, if I was to take another trip up to bempton cliffs?

Not a shot to show off the plumage of the bird, but more of a memory from the few days spent on Skomer this summer. It was a glorious afternoon and I managed to catch this puffin heading back in, with one of the anchored tankers behind.

This one is from bempton ciffs back in may.

Taken at the Farne Islands some weeks ago.

One had landed a tad too close to another and a brief scuffle broke out. Probably from the stress of life, catching fish, being tailed by gulls, demanding children and nosey photographers!

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Three from Skomer today. Here we have a puffin, being rude or just clowning around.

Coming into land on the sloping cliffs beside the harbour, on a blisteringly hot and sunny day.

Puffin in flight with a beak full of sandeels.

Comical, cute & full of character. Love em t' bits.

Although a little late in the season, I had promised the missus Puffins. She was dissappointed with the distant views at Bempton as they were at sea forming rafts. A trip a few miles down the coast was much better on this occasion, thank God - I'd have had another nagging for dragging her 90...

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Performing an emergency stop before hitting the cliffs.

Sumburgh Head is quite a place... The puffins are incredibly close.

A close up of one of the obliging Puffins on Skomer

Performing an emergency stop before crash landing on the cliffs. Strange how some days they streamed back in with masses of eels, yet others they came back, generally without anything.

Shot at f10 to try to get them all in focus, but still the DOF is a bit too shallow.

Hiding in the flowers with the catch of the day.

Posing with a pretty flower.