Puffin Watching -Original Painting June Because while people are watching

Because while people are watching the puffins

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

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

In the harbour there was a man doing some work on one of the small boats propped up in the mud and we could hear a strange eerie singing

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

Puffin Watching -Original Painting June Because while people are watchingThe 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