June - Lost Files from Farne Islands

While on our trip to the Farne Islands in June this year, I took some images with my 10-24mm Fuji lens and then was unable to find them on the computer and had wiped the card. Of course, in my mind, these were the best images ever. Today I found them filed in a strange place on my laptop and, although as always reality falls short of expectations, I am very pleased to find them.
Here Arctic Terns in aggressive mode in two different lightening situations and therefore processed differently.

Guillemots on Staple Island

I spent most of our time on Staple Island on Monday morning trying to photograph the Guillemots in flight. They breed on vast colonies on the island and it is difficult to see how they pinpoint their mate when returning with fish. 

Puffin Parade for Meredith

We booked on the all-day trip to the Farne Islands yesterday and were very lucky that the weather there was reasonable all day. I decided before I got there not to photograph many puffins but, somehow, they found their way into my collection of images. Such comic and yet beautiful birds - can one really have too many momentos?

 

 

Farne Island Shags

I think Shags are my favourite birds from the trip to the Farne Islands. Their plumage is so colourful close to and their shapes so elegant.

Farne Islands Guillemots and Razorbill

The Farne Islands has around 49,000 Guillemots of which about 5 per cent are Bridled with the spectacles and stripe. There are only around 600 Razorbills but they are on the increase.

Arctic Terns Display

In the afternoon on Tuesday, we transferred to Inner Farne to photograph mainly the Terns. It was still raining a bit and very dull conditions so not ideal light but I still enjoyed capturing the Arctic Tern displays as they fended off visitors too close to their nests.

Farne Island Puffins in the Rain

We had mixed weather on a day trip to the Farnes yesterday. The Puffins certainly looked a bit miserable in the heavy showers. I loved watching them take off - amazing those little wings give so much lift. The obligatory images of Puffins with sand eels - certainly didn't seem to be any shortage. Finally a couple of portraits.