Puffin Watching -Original Painting June I need to get better

I need to get better quickly or I’ll miss them

Dramatic white horse waves trailed manes of white spume across the bay

It's a time of great effort and exertion for the birds

refined elegance and intelligence

This viewpoint shows Lindisfarne Castle on Holy Island across the narrow stretch of sea

Puffin Watching -Original Painting June I need to get betterThe title of this painting, "Puffin Watching" is deliberately ambiguous. Because while people are watching the puffins, those puffins are also watching us! It feels a comfortably relaxed reciprocal arrangement, in which both parties get to see the other, without too much stress or disruption. Listening to a podcast about puffins in Nova Scotia, Canada, the presenter mentioned that researchers there needed a bird hide or "blind" to get close enough to