It's all durham_rambler's fault!

[shewhomust]

I didn't mean to spend the afternoon looking at pictures of puffins: I do have work to do.

But durham_rambler showed me a picture in today's Guardian, so I went looking for it to see if I could share it here. Not as easy as I expected. Here's the Guardian Witness feature, and here are today's photos: no puffins, but some nice pictures. I'd post the guiser Jarls queuing for their breakfast here if there were an LJ button alongside the FB, Twitter and Pinterest logos, but we are not worthy.

Oh, well. I finally tracked down my pictures archived by theme, and oh, look, there's an 'embed' option, hooray! Well, almost hooray. The code doesn't actually embed the picture, but it gives you this link:

Puffin vanity


Which in turn gives me the name of the photographer, and that allows me to find this story published in the Journal a couple of summers ago. I can't make the gallery feature work, alas, but in the meanwhile, have some piano-playing puffins:

Watch on YouTube

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[durham-rambler.livejournal.com]

We should perhaps point out that, due to the extremely rare Roseate Terns that nest on Coquet Island, you are not allowed to land there without a permit from the RSPB.

And I found out the link for the photograph: