Final Approach

A puffin on final approach to land on Skomer with it's load of sand eels for it's chicks. I know it isn't pin-sharp, but it was SO difficult to catch them properly in-flight, they are incredibly fast

 

This image was the "Award" image for the ☼The Best of Wildlife ☼ Group for about a year - check the group out here:

www.flickr.com/groups/1424237@N21/

 

This image was voted winner of the Department for the Environment & Rural Affairs' (Defra) internal magazine Landscape's 2011 photography competiton. Staff across Defra voted on a shortlist of ten entries and my puffin won!

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