Sunrise Puffins

Elliston is always a magical place but even more so during the early morning watching the sunrise – August 9, 2024  Image Upload: Location, Place , Whereabouts: Elliston NL

Puffins Quarrel

An aggressive encounter between two puffins often begins by gaping. This involves a puffin puffing up their body to look bigger and opening their wings and beak slightly. The wider the beak is opened the more upset the puffin. Image Upload: Location, Place , Whereabouts: Elliston, NL

Passing Through

Puffins can communicate information in its manner of walking. If the puffin is walking rapidly with its head lowered it is saying “I am just passing through and don’t mean any trouble” This is called a low profile walk and is useful because the colony is very crowded and a puffin is often crossing another…

Lining up

Atlantic Puffins just walking around just a nice afternoon  Image Upload: Location, Place , Whereabouts: Elliston Viewing Site, Elliston

In Flight!!

I love trying to catch the puffins in flight. Image Upload: Location, Place , Whereabouts: Elliston, NL