Puffins on Staffa
by Vicki Lea Eggen
Title
Puffins on Staffa
Artist
Vicki Lea Eggen
Medium
Digital Art - Photographic Art
Description
Staffa from the Old Norse for stave or pillar island, is an island of the Inner Hebrides in Argyll and Bute, Scotland. I was lucky enough to find myself on the Isle of Iona on a calm day- and was able to hop on a boat and go to the Isle of Staffa. I climbed to the top and Puffins were everywhere!!!!!
Puffins spend the autumn and winter in the open ocean of the cold northern seas, the Atlantic puffin returns to coastal areas at the start of the breeding season in late spring. Colonies are mostly on islands where there are no terrestrial predators. It nests in clifftop colonies, digging a burrow in which a single white egg is laid. The chick mostly feeds on whole fish and grows rapidly. After about six weeks it is fully fledged and makes its way at night to the sea. It swims away from the shore and does not return to land for several years.
Copyright 2018 by Vicki Lea Eggen, All rights reserved
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May 30th, 2018
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