Puffins

  • Place: Skomer Island, Pembrokeshire
  • Date: 15 May '08
  • Camera: Canon EOS 350D
  • Lens: EF 50mm f/1.8 II
  • Aperture: f 5.0
  • Exposure: 1/320

Puffins among the sea campion. These are the birds I went to Wales to see, and as you can see, they were very obliging: it’s not often you get a chance to take bird shots like that with a 50mm lens. Skomer really is a rather special place.

The puffins nest in burrows on the cliff-tops (rabbit burrows, although they can apparently dig their own if they have to) so you can get really close to them. All the other nesting seabirds — fulmars, kittiwakes, razorbills, guillemots, shags — might well be equally tame, but they nest on the cliff face so you’d need abseiling equipment to get anywhere near them.

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