16 May 2014

Skomer Island and Puffins

Took a boat from remote Martins Haven to Skomer Island, one of Britain's four main wildlife research sites. May is the prime month for bluebells, and nesting puffins, and there are some 18,000 thousand! Usually they are extremely difficult to see at sea where they spend most of the year. Other notable birds are manx shearwaters that return each night to avoid predators, razorbills, guillemots lining the ledges, black-backed gulls etc. It's a 5-mile walk around the undulating island; visitors limited due to the ornithology research on site.