Bound Down for Newfoundland
One of the great things about O'Brien's Boat is that you'll always hear Great Big Sea Music and the Punters and Shanneyganock and all the other bands who play great Newfoundland music. Today did not disappoint.

The closer we got to Bird Island the more birds we saw swooping and soaring and, in the case of the puffins, frantically flapping their wings to stay aloft.  I snapped a million pictures trying to get a puffin on the wing. They are just too fast for my digital. But when we got to Bird Island, I had more than enough puffin colonies to shoot.
There WERE other birds on Bird Island. Really. The ones in the middle, on the rock, with the stripe on the bill, are Razorbills, related to Turres and Auks.
A thief among the puffins -
The gulls wait till the puffins come home with their fish and bully it out of them. Poor puffins!
I don't begrudge the Herring Gulls a meal but really - get up off your duff and get some fish of your own, fer Pete's sake!
Kittiwakes, Murres and Gulls, oh my!
Here are some Herring Gulls surveying the seascape.