Puffin with sand eels

On the Isle of May. The weather wasn't brilliant and when I got home everything got hung up to dry. However we saw thousands of puffins, many more than we've seen before. They were everywhere, on the ground, in the sea and flying about, although we weren't sure where they were flying to a lot of the time. And even when they came back from the sea with food (sand eels in their beak like this one), they seemed in no hurry to take it to the burrow where their nest was. This year there are around 46,200 pairs of puffins nesting on the Isle of May and for every puffin you see above ground, there's one in a burrow. There were also Arctic terns, guillemots, razorbills, kittiwakes, herring gulls, lesser black backed gulls, shags and cormorants. We saw young of most of these too so it was good to come a bit later in the season than we had been before. I will probably post some extras when I've caught up a bit with blips, but I wanted to get something up there for the time being.