John Pickup wrote:The numbered signs on the island are essential. Several puffins were returning home late at night slightly the worse for drink and inadvertently trespassing into some other puffin's burrows. Now, the puffins can identify their burrow by its own personal number.
Puffin Webcam, Burhou Island
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They must be male puffins with the females waiting in the burrows with rolling pins! After all they should be
bringing back fish instead of fishy tales!
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A puffin has just emerged from its burrow!
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Too bad, I missed him!
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I can see two seagulls.
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So nice to know that the puffins are back - well spotted, Anita.
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Francis, I was looking forward to this for weeks !
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A little higher than post 17 (on the right end) I spotted two puffins. They walked down into their burrow (sp?) and came back out again. That was about a minute ago.Francis wrote:So nice to know that the puffins are back - well spotted, Anita.
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Gah - there's nothing there now, not even a gull or a rabbit!
They've got a video of the puffins in action here:
https://vimeo.com/125439693" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
They've got a video of the puffins in action here:
https://vimeo.com/125439693" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
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Thank you for the link, Anita. It's beautiful.
It's 11:34 a.m. in/at the US East Coast right now. In case you have time, check the puffin cam between noontime (in 26 minutes) and 1 p.m.. That's when I usually had more luck last year. That's early evening on Burhou Island and for some reason more puffins seem to leave their burrows at that time.
Maybe for evening walks?
It's 11:34 a.m. in/at the US East Coast right now. In case you have time, check the puffin cam between noontime (in 26 minutes) and 1 p.m.. That's when I usually had more luck last year. That's early evening on Burhou Island and for some reason more puffins seem to leave their burrows at that time.
Maybe for evening walks?
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I obviously need the patience and application of Anita and Chrissie to see the puffins but no doubt over the next couple of months even I will catch a glimpse of them.
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John, your remark made my day!!!John Pickup wrote:That's when they go to the pub.
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Francis what I do to not miss that time frame: I set the kitchen timer, then let the dog outside one more time, put him in his crate and spend some time upstairs at my computer. Sometimes I get lucky!Francis wrote:I obviously need the patience and application of Anita and Chrissie to see the puffins but no doubt over the next couple of months even I will catch a glimpse of them.
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