Isle of May - Puffins

Puffins (Fratercula arctica)- the most colourful of the seabirds with their brightly coloured bills and bright orange legs.

 

Good to see them with their beaks full of sand eels - food for the chicks, also known as pufflings. The parent birds raise a single chick in underground burrows.

Puffins and Seals - Farne Islands

Puffins on the Water. (Click to enlarge photos)
Puffins and Seals are probably the favourite wildlife sightings on any trip to the Farne Islands.

Puffins on Inner Farne.

There is also a black headed gull in the centre of the picture. The island is littered with puffin burrows.

Grey seals basking in the sunshine.