Here are a few shots of puffins with beakfuls of goodies for their hungry pufflings taken on Staple Island, Inner Farne.  These  puffins were the lucky ones as most returning with beakfuls of sand eels bore the brunt of the much larger and sand eel-thieving gulls. ‘Tis a hard life indeed.

Puffin with a beakful

Puffin with sand eels

Puffin with a beakful

Puffin with sand eels

Puffin with a beakful

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