Comments on: Home on the Range http://southwestseakayaking.co.uk/2008/05/11/home-alone-2/ Sea Kayaking in South West England Mon, 13 Oct 2008 09:45:49 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=MU hourly 1 By: Mark http://southwestseakayaking.co.uk/2008/05/11/home-alone-2/#comment-2242 Mark Wed, 14 May 2008 11:24:32 +0000 http://seakayaksouthwest.wordpress.com/?p=284#comment-2242 Glad to hear that their numbers are increasing in one place, at least. Hoping to pass by Ailsa Craig this summer, although it'll be too late for the puffins! Mark R Glad to hear that their numbers are increasing in one place, at least. Hoping to pass by Ailsa Craig this summer, although it’ll be too late for the puffins!

Mark R

]]> By: Douglas http://southwestseakayaking.co.uk/2008/05/11/home-alone-2/#comment-2235 Douglas Mon, 12 May 2008 21:30:13 +0000 http://seakayaksouthwest.wordpress.com/?p=284#comment-2235 100 years ago there were two hundred and fifty thousand pairs of puffins on Alisa Craig in the Clyde but rats off a shipwreck exterminated them. Over the last decade the rats were poisoned by conservationists and amazingly the puffins have returned. In 2006 we saw five at their traditional burrow site. Exactly two years later we saw so many hundreds that we could't begin to count them. http://bp2.blogger.com/_YDeW6uBEz2o/SB-EXJBRNyI/AAAAAAAADBM/jX6l-dESs0Q/s1600-h/080505IMG_2127.jpg ASA 1600 eh? Wouldn't catch me falling for that one.... Errrr... http://seakayakphoto.blogspot.com/2008/05/wee-trip-to-garvellachs.html 100 years ago there were two hundred and fifty thousand pairs of puffins on Alisa Craig in the Clyde but rats off a shipwreck exterminated them. Over the last decade the rats were poisoned by conservationists and amazingly the puffins have returned. In 2006 we saw five at their traditional burrow site. Exactly two years later we saw so many hundreds that we could’t begin to count them.

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ASA 1600 eh? Wouldn’t catch me falling for that one…. Errrr…

http://seakayakphoto.blogspot.com/2008/05/wee-trip-to-garvellachs.html

]]> By: Owen http://southwestseakayaking.co.uk/2008/05/11/home-alone-2/#comment-2232 Owen Mon, 12 May 2008 11:26:49 +0000 http://seakayaksouthwest.wordpress.com/?p=284#comment-2232 We get puffins up here too (where eskimos live)- we saw dozens of the little blghters this weekend whilst paddling around the sea caves at Flamborough Head. We get puffins up here too (where eskimos live)- we saw dozens of the little blghters this weekend whilst paddling around the sea caves at Flamborough Head.

]]> By: John Gilmour http://southwestseakayaking.co.uk/2008/05/11/home-alone-2/#comment-2231 John Gilmour Mon, 12 May 2008 08:08:34 +0000 http://seakayaksouthwest.wordpress.com/?p=284#comment-2231 You did better than us Mark, we went to find the puffins on Saturday and couldn't see any. No doubt a great weekend to be in the Purbecks, good decision mate! jg You did better than us Mark, we went to find the puffins on Saturday and couldn’t see any.

No doubt a great weekend to be in the Purbecks, good decision mate!

jg

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