Puffin day! Sunday saw us paddling across the tide races of Jack Sound to visit Skomer Island. Skomer is home to phenomenal birdlife; 128 000 pairs of Manx Shearwaters, 20 000 pairs of guillemots, 10 000 pairs of razorbills, and 6000 pairs of puffins. All of these birds were out and about, filling the skies. But it was of course the puffins that entranced us …
The puffin is a bird that effectively refutes Darwin. It lives in a hole in the ground, is a totally impractical shape and it can’t fly very well; takeoff and flight is a triumph of frantic optimism over aerodynamics and to land, it simply stops flapping and falls out of the sky. What’s not to love?
Cracking shots. Favourable light conditions?
Light was wrong time of day, wrong direction – but the penguins were obliging.
Loving the pics – well done!
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I love these photos! Well done!!
Are you SURE these were real? Not a stuffed puffin with pipecleaner arms and legs and articulated beak? Posed at various scenic locations? They look far too shiny to be real. OK, I grant you the flying shot is a masterstroke of wires and trickery but really???
Seriously though – glorious photos.