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DSD2
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Registered: ‎01-09-2016

Re: FARAWAY ISLANDS

‎06-27-2026 07:17 PM

@on the bay wrote:

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 BradshawMy 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!

 

What an amazing picture @on the bay! I would have been in heaven. What a marvelous experience your sister must have had!

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Oznell
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Re: FARAWAY ISLANDS

‎06-28-2026 03:31 PM

Whoa, great picture, @on the bay ,  thanks for posting.  Looks like "Puffinlandia",  as far as the eye can see...

 

@We rescue cats ,  yes, those rudimentary, ruined stone dwellings bring out the same thoughts in me.   Imagine those islanders, hanging on there, century after century.  Despite privations, a subsistence life, relentless chill, gale-like winds off the buffetting sea.  I sort of gulp because I know that at least one branch of my family had similar conditions in Britain, and cottages like those have always brought a weird kind of kinship and almost "recognition" in me...  

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