At the begining of the month (July 2026) we spent 4 days on Skokholm island, off the coast of Pembrokeshire, helping ring pufflings and adult puffins. Pufflings, probably the best name for a juvenile anything in the entire animal kingdon, look nothing like the adult birds, as you’ll see in the photographs below. Skokholm Island is a bird observatory and the ringing of seabirds here is part of a long term scientific monitoring programme tracking population trends.
Puffling, baby puffin
Ringers catching puffins
Slightly older puffling
Howard’s End hide on Skokholm, my favourite
Razorbill on the rocks
Wife’s lucky socks worked
Six-spot burnet moth
Puffin ringers hard at work
Skokholm puffins just being themselves
Thanks for reading
Chris
