So many kinds of sea bird…
Who doesn’t love a puffin? 
A puffin and a pal: a black-headed gull. 
Guillemots gathering. 
Guillemots. 
Feeding time for fledgling shags, 
Kittiwake with a precarious nest. 
Cormorant in typical pose. 
Razorbill and young.
More from the Farne Islands
From Pyrenees to Pennines 
Really fabulous photos, Margaret! Magical 🙂 🙂 Happy long Sunday!
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Thanks, it’s been long already, My body can’t cope with clock change. Hope yours is better adapted.
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Nope! Half past 5 isn’t my favourite time of day. Will be drooping by this evening 🙂 🙂
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Such a pain …
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Great collection! I’ve never seen puffins in real life. They are adorable!
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Honestly, they were there in quite unbelievable numbers, all scuttling around on the ground beneath our feet. I’ve never been so close before.
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That sounds wonderful.
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Stunning photographs, thanks for sharing to cheer me up in these hard times.
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wow, what an amazing time you had. Puffins – the one birds I want to see close up in the wild . . .one of these days
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Easy. Move up north …
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hee hee, very tempting. Found an amazing house in Berwick yesterday.
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I’m all for that. If you’re thinking of that area, you should follow: https://beyondthewindowbox.wordpress.com/
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ooh what a lovely blog, got a feeling she took part in a squares sometime ago. Now following 🙂
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🙂
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PS Berwick grew on me after I saw how good the train service is! The house is almost perfect but has no garden as right on the quay, so probably a no no but MrB is tempted . . . . . . . .
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You’re tempting me – apart from the garden business.
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I know really pain on the garden not even a yard. I’ll email you the house details xx
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Puffins…that’s all you need is Puffins…love love love
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Exactly. Does anyone dislike them? And if so, why?
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Have to be the cutest birds ever
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You would definitely take an instant dislike to one if it bit you between your thumb and index finger when you were trying to ring them. That is their preferred spot to attack and they don’t let go!
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I can hear the bitter tones of personal experience leaching through here, Peter. Am I right?
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Yes indeed. Their beaks are serrated so they can catch and carry multiple fish (sand eels are a favourite) and they have extra bone at the tip. They draw blood when the bite. I used to help ring the new batches of birds on St Kilda when I worked there.
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Ah! No wonder you’re an expert. Quite an experience though, wounds notwithstanding.
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Great set of images, Margaret
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Thank you!
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And must have been quite an experience!
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Oh, unforgettable. Three years ago, yet … like yesterday.
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Marvellous!
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Wonderful photos! I adore puffins, which I saw loads of when visiting Iceland – didn’t know you could see them in the UK.
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Luckily yes. And I didn’t know they were in Iceland.
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These are gorgeous birds and pictures. I love the comments. Especially the rhyme in this one:
‘A Puffin and a pal: a black-headed gull”
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An accidental rhyme. It happens all the time 😉
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So I See, so I see,
Said she and smiled at thee.
🙂
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Never heard of the Farne Islands, but I looked it up! I now know something I never expected – puffins are in the UK! Wonderful pics and thanks for expanding my world.
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Oh yes. We have puffins. Mainly the far north and Wales. Wonderful birds.
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😊
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delightful! 🙂
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It really was quite an experience.
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Such adorable birds! Loved the puffins especially! 😀
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I think they’re everyone’s favourites.
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A perfect bundle of birds to lead me gently to bed…
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Oooh, you’re having an early night. Good for you. Sleep well.
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Iceland is the only place I have seen them – didn’t know you had them! LOVE these birds!
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They’re so appealing, aren’t they?
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They really are!
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Puffins are so sweet. I bet it’s noisy and smelly on those islands though.
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Noisy? Yes. Smelly? Once we landed, not so much astonishingly.
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What a top spot, Margaret. To be treasured. Wonderful photos.
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It was fantastic. And those birds were just happy to pose. Great memories.
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Ah lovely, lovely puffins and lucky you. We went to the Farne Islands to see the puffins, but not quite the right time of year.
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I know. You just have to get it right.
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I really enjoyed seeing these photos – wonderful birds and it must have been such a great experience to be there.
I like the tiled gallery with captions btw.
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Thanks. It was a great day. Although there were a lot of people, everyone was there because really interested, so it felt respectful of the birds, who – apart from the terns – took absolutely no notice of us.
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