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Posted by Graeme Guy on Thu Jul 02, 2015 11:51 pm

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My wife and I have just returned from the UK where we attended our daughter's graduation at Cambridge University. It coincided with seabird nesting time and I spent two mornings with the puffins and other seabirds on the Farne Islands off the Northumbrian Coast. The puffins were the main target and they have a trial getting the sand-eels to the chicks as highwaymen posing as gulls rob them near their burrows.

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by Carol Clarke on Fri Jul 03, 2015 4:32 am
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Classic Puffin with catch! What a beautiful image Graeme, just superb in every way.
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by Debapratim Saha on Fri Jul 03, 2015 6:56 am
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Excellent shot Graeme.
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by Axel Hildebrandt on Fri Jul 03, 2015 12:25 pm
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Great details and interesting to see the entirely different habitat. The sandeel add to it.
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by Missy Mandel on Sat Jul 04, 2015 8:18 pm
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Congratulation on your daughters graduation Graeme. How wonderful that it coincided with the nesting season of these wonderful birds. Love the image with the mouthful of eels!
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by LynnS on Sun Jul 05, 2015 3:21 pm
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Graeme, amazing to see the beak full of sand-eels and appreciated hearing the story about the gauntlet they must pass thru to feed their chicks.  Lovely portrait of this hard-worker.  Congrats on your daughter's graduation, too.
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