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Skomer in May

Rabbit and bluebells on Skomer

A birding walk with Dave Astin of West Coast Birdwatching booked with the local Wildlife Trust.  So let’s start with some birds.

 

Meadow pipit

 

Common whitethroat

 

Sedge warbler

 

Northern wheatear

 

Peregrine on the cliff edge

 

Guillemots

 

We saw lots of choughs, this one over bluebells

 

The main reason for coming in May is to see the bluebells – vast carpets of blue, joined by swathes of red from the emerging campion.

 

Sea, red campion and bluebells

 

Looking north from Old Farm

 

Red campion flower

 

 

Bluebells and sea campion

 

Penny’s puffin finds a friend

 

In May the puffins are either in their burrows, or out at sea, so there is not nearly as much flying activity as there is later in June. We saw just one puffin bringing back sand-eels; presumably their chick had hatched.

 

Another puffin checking out the view

 

And a bit of preening

 

Puffin with bluebells

 

 

Finally, sunset from our guest house in Broad Haven

 

More birds, puffins, flowers and landscapes in the gallery.

 

And more puffins from Skomer from my 2022 visit.

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