Re: FARAWAY ISLANDS

LIndaMJ · ‎11-02-2014

Thank you @Oznell for this super interesting information and photos. When we visit DS in Canada we so enjoy watching the puffins on the cliffs. They are so cute!

bmorechick · ‎03-11-2010

@Oznell what a stunning place to live with the sea right there..I'm sure the last inhabitants were sad to leave their beautiful land. However, it sounds like a harsh life. Thanks for the info and pictures. So many beautiful spots on this planet.

Oznell · ‎11-08-2014

Oh, cool, @LIndaMJ -- puffins in what part of Canada? Labrador, or the island part of Newfoundland?

Oznell · ‎11-08-2014

Oh, exactly, @bmorechick -- I thought the same thing--they had to be devastated to leave, after their families had been there for 2000 years. Feel so bad for them, but apparently the remote island was just not sustainable for them, so they moved to mainland Scotland....

LIndaMJ · ‎11-02-2014

Witless Bay, Newfoundland, to the best of my knowledge at the southeast area of the island. No exaggeration there is a colony which contains thousands of the fascinating puffins @Oznell.

DSD2 · ‎01-09-2016

Thank you for another fascinating, engrossing post @Oznell

I always learn so much from you. The islands are intriguing; I've always loved puffins too.

on the bay · ‎03-09-2010

Rathlin Island: A guillemot returns to land in a densly packed breeding colony on a sea stack as a great black gull cruises above, looking for an easy snack. Photograph: Nick Bradshaw My sister just got back from Ireland and one place they visited was Rathlin Island which has a Seabird center with these puffins!

Scotland has several puffin reserves.

It must be so wonderful to see all these fluffy puffins all at once!

"If you walk the footsteps of a stranger, you'll learn things you never knew. Can you sing with all the voices of the mountains? can you paint with all the colors of the wind?"

nwbabs · ‎02-24-2018

@on the bay sounds like your sister had a great trip.

We are fortunate to have tufted puffins here on the West Coast of the United States. I've seen tufted puffins here in Washington State in the Salish Sea, on the Oregon Coast at Cannon Beach, and California.

The horned puffins your sister had the pleasure of seeing do inhabit Alaska and British Columbia here on the West Coast.

They are so stinking cute! Cheers.

We rescue cats · ‎01-25-2023

The Puffin pics are amazing!

I can't fathom how hard life was then, just trying to stay warm in one of those homes and face Mother Nature let alone what it took to build any of them. . .