BBC Wildlife Magazine

SPINNING AROUND

Mike Dilger’s

WILDLIFE SPECTACLES

The broadcaster, naturalist and tour guide shares the most breathtaking seasonal events in Britain

FOR SEVEN MONTHS OF THE YEAR, Britain’s most charismatic auk all but disappears off the face of the Earth. Adopting drab plumage, and with a suitably sombre bill to match, Atlantic puffins ride out the storms of autumn and winter far from land, either in solitary fashion or in small groups. However, as the spring days lengthen and the temperatures rise, the year’s first flush of ‘puffin food’ out at sea not only permits

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