Puffin Season

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The Puffins are back at Skomer. Well worth driving way off the end of the M4 for...

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More here: http://www.tug.com/blog/2010/20100426_Skomer/

Andrew

(Andrew waits for some wizecrack to point out that one if the pictures isn't a Puffin...)
 
Hmmm...

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The graph does look a little "to the left" but they look ok to me. They are untouched from the camera for a mixture of reasons:

- They look ok on my screen
- This isn't a competition
- These images were at the end of a queue of 3733 clicks from the weekend
- My judgement may have been overpowered by the excessive cuteness of the subjects

How do they look to other folk?

Andrew
 
First 2 shot definitely look abit underexposed on my screen. Not by a mile, just a knock of 0.3~0.7 in the positive direction will look about right. Number 3 is about right :)

By the way, are they really fast? I'm tempted to go and have a shoot the next season... (which by the way is between when?)
 
Mr Jones said:
By the way, are they really fast? I'm tempted to go and have a shoot the next season... (which by the way is between when?)
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They are small and "darty". Very difficult to catch in flight. Mostly there is cliff or sea in the background, which the camera wants to focus on.

They have just started landing to begin nest (burrow) building. They raise one chick and leave when it fledges.

There is no shortage of birds now but peak times are June/July. They will be gone in August.

http://www.welshwildlife.org/puffin_en.link

Andrew
 
The best place to get Puffins in flight on Skomer is near the landing where you first get off the boat. Climb a few flight of stairs and wait for the puffins to come round the corner straight at you. You have to be quick, but it is great fun.
 
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