Puffin In Flight Reflections in Coquetdale

in Coquetdale

It is always an uplifting

I never tire of watching these colouful little birds going about their daily business of fishing and flying back to their burrows with beaks full of sand eels

and wears a tweed skirt

with broad sweeping views of the surrounding countryside

Puffin In Flight Reflections in CoquetdaleThis print is from my original painting of a puffin emerging from a dynamic watery background. Each year, puffins arrive on the Farne Islands from the end of March and stay until late July or early August, when the nesting season is over. During that time, the parent birds both work hard to create a fresh burrow, then lay and incubate their one precious egg, while feeding themselves. Both parents share turns incubating the egg and caring for the chick