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Ok here are some more Farne Island pictures. We went on a family holiday to Northumberland last August, and did a boat trip round the islands but a) we had dogs so couldn't land on the islands, and b) although all the posters for the trips have puffins everywhere, by August they have all finished breeding and flown off into the North Atlantic, so my daughter who loves puffins (& who doesn't) was a bit disappointed.
So, as it's her birthday in June I thought I would take her back up there when the birds are actually there. We stayed in Newcastle and hired a car for one day to get to Seahouses where the trips run from.
First thing to say is the scale is quite astonishing. I think they reckon there are about 60,000 pairs of guillemots, about the same of puffins, and thousands of kittiwakes, shags, terns and other seabirds. The noise and the stench is quite something.