Sunday, 29 May 2011

Padstow Puffins

Hello once again.  :)  
Yesterday I nearly came very close to being in the sea - fully clothed.  
It was very windy and as a result, the sea was very rough, nevertheless, I went out on a boat from Padstow to see some Puffins.  
I saw a huge variety of sea birds including:
Shags (Phalacrocorax aristotelis)
Guillemots  (Uria aalge)
Fulmar (Fulmarus glacialis)
Manx Shearwater (Puffinus puffinus)
Gannet (Morus bassanus)
Grey Heron (Ardea cinerea)
Oyster Catcher (Haematopus ostralegus)
Herring Gull (Larus argentatus)
Kittiwake (Rissa tridactyla)
Razorbill (Alca torda)
Puffin (Fratercula arctica)


Here are some of the only photographs I captured.  (The boat was very rocky so I apologise for the softness)  I used a 70-300mm lens and a Canon 450D.





I hope to photograph more puffins and sea birds in the future and may take a longer lens and will definitely go on a calmer day.  
Lexie  

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