Puffin Parliament, Farne Islands
From £32.00
Five Atlantic puffins hold court on a weathered sea stack, their bills glowing against a hard June sky. The Farne Islands host one of the UK's largest puffin colonies, and by early summer the ledges are this crowded and this loud.
View sizes & buy →About the Atlantic Puffin
Atlantic puffins spend most of the year far out at sea, only coming ashore to breed in dense cliff-top and island colonies each spring and early summer. The Farne Islands off the Northumberland coast hold one of the UK's largest colonies, with tens of thousands of pairs nesting in rabbit burrows and rock crevices; an adult can carry a dozen or more sand eels at once, wedged crosswise in that famously colourful bill.
