Skomer Puffins

I made a trip to the island of Skomer, off the Pembrokeshire coast in south Wales last week. It was getting a little late in the season but I knew there were still plenty of Puffins there. They are a couple of weeks later than usual with breeding and are still feeding young in the burrows.

Arriving on the island before lunchtime, it wasn't going to be the best time for photography in the scorching overhead sun. I tried a few flight shots but the heat distortion didn't help in trying to get sharp images,  so close-ups would be the order of the day.

Puffins

I'm working my way through a huge back-log of images and decided that I would set myself a target of having 10,000 images on my main website by the end of the year. This will take a bit of doing but I am finding plenty of unused images hidden away on my hard drives. These Puffins are a typical example, taken over two years ago.