We’ve been back to Bempton Cliffs. It was busy, it was full of people with dogs and there were quite a lot of Puffins about.
Puffins at Bempton Cliffs
I like Puffins.
I’m not so keen on crowds.
And I think that dog owners should have to pass a test before being allowed out in public. I had to wait at the entrance to the visitor centre as two pairs of dogs  faced off. I’ve been forced off paths and tripped several times too.
Anyway, here are some photos.
Puffins at Bempton
Puffins at Bempton
Puffins at Bempton
I love those puffin photos, Quercus!
Thank you. I can’t really claim any credit – I just go there on the right day and the Puffins do the rest.
Oh, wow. I am planning a trip to Maine this summer. Will have to check that out for sure. Thanks!
🙂 I think Puffins should be prescribed as a way of adding smiles to the world…
Even from another country your photos of them added smiles to my life. So – yes.
🙂
I apologize on behalf of dog owners everywhere. I feel like dogs belong on a leash unless they are so well behaved that they stay with their owners or at least ignore everyone else. I have seen a few like that – they won’t even give my (leashed) dog a second glance. It is especially troubling to have a leashed dog being pestered by a non-leashed dog with no owner in sight. So – yeah – I get the frustration.
Your puffin pictures made my day. They are excellent! Even the name is cute.
It’s a problem. I like dogs and I like most dog owners. But, like so many things they are a nuisance in quantity, and you only notice the bad ones.
Puffins, on the other hand, are great in quantity and there are no bad Puffins.
That feels like a bumper sticker: “there are no bad puffins”
That sounds like it could be a chapter in “Lipstick on a Razorbill” my new project.
I love puffins and am very happy you have provided some excellent photos of them. I am less happy about dogs though they seem to like me.
For some reason they seemed intent on getting under my feet on Sunday. 🙂
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I love the photo of the puffin peeping round the rock. It’s almost as though you asked it for a cute pose!
Virtually every Puffin pose is cute – it’s in their DNA. 🙂
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Spare prose full of meaning
That’s a very kind interpretation. 🙂
Less is sometimes more. Hope you are OK
Fat and lazy, but pretty good despite that. 🙂
Good
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Delightful puffins. I am totally with you on the subject of dog owners.
Thank you. Puffins are very cheery, though not as majestic as a Gannet.
I agree with you about dogs and owners!
Someone actually took a cat on a lead on Sunday. With so many rampaging dogs it was very unhappy and refused to walk, so they had to pick it up.
Love those puffins!
I see you have them in Maine – ice cream, lobster rolls and Puffins! It’s like a slice of perfection grafted on to the USA. 🙂
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Puffins are so cute. I do want to see one in the flesh sometime.
It is a good thing to do – there is something about a Puffin that improves your day.
Me too – they are adorable and seem exotic – like penguins.
Yes, they are definitely exotic.
And we could get to them by just going to Maine, I think.
According to various websites you could indeed see them in Maine – but you need to go at the right time – go too soon in the year and they are all in their burrows hatching eggs.
Nobody goes to Maine too early in the year…
My view of Maine is somewhat coloured by watching Cabot Cove in Murder She Wrote, but I recently discovered that the filming takes place in California. This makes a difference…
It did look like Maine, though. And some of the characters had the accent, sort of.
Despite this I now know that it isn’t snowy or muddy enough. To be honest I’m not sure Hollywood gives a particularly accurate picture of the UK either. We don’t, despite the evidence of Disney, have raccoons. 🙂
yes, I don’t think there was ever an episode in mud season or the winter. It’s fiction. Accuracy is optional.
I’ve seen some snow but no mud. 🙂