Skomer Island, Wales aka a place to be obcessed about Puffins

Skomer does not suck!! What a fantastic day out.

My first ever photo of a Puffin - taken before our briefing about the island began...

 Skomer Island is simply a great place for any naturalist to visit. This wonderful island, located off the very west of Western Wales, has a great variety of wildlife on its wind swept cliffs and in its icy waters but fantastic numbers as well. And perhaps the most appealing of all of its wildlife is the iconic Puffin. The Puffin or to distinguish it from the other two Puffin species, the Atlantic Puffin is a pretty desirable species. Certainly every birder would like to see one. Every birder in our group dearly wanted to see one; even those who had already seen them! In fact I would suggest that the Puffin is one of those magic species that everyone both knows and desires to see.

On Skomer it is not possible to see one. There are thousands of them and they are doing just nicely, thanks. Their numbers, it was reported on our ‘island briefing’, are increasing and are in the tens of thousands. So every visitor can see puffins. Puffins flying.  Puffins landing.  Puffins swimming and diving. And you photograph them doing these things – so I did!

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