How Cool Are These Puffins?

I just love this photo - the puffin seems to be posing for Liz to take his picture.  Of course, after a winter in the north atlantic, we're no real challenge for these tiny, hardy birds.


We met hundreds on a leisurely three-day trip to the Treshnish Islands and Staffa this weekend as we made the most of the all too rare superb weather on Scotland's west coast.  I now have more photos of puffins than I know what to do with.  But despite bristling with cameras, my two favourites that I've posted here, we both taken on my iPhone.  We were that close...