PUFFIN SUMMER
The hole story
An Atlantic puffin on Skomer peers out from the clifftop burrow it’s occupied since early spring and where it lays a single egg in late April. This island off the south-west Pembrokeshire coast, managed by the Wildlife Trust of South and West Wales, is a breeding stronghold for the species: nearly 39,000 puffins were recorded here this year.
Nesting instinct
A puffin gathers grass and roots to line its burrow. Its large, vividly coloured bill – prominent in summer, a, ‘little brother of the north’ – a nod to its range in the north Atlantic.
