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The Puffins of Lunga

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Atlantic Puffin on the Island of Lunga Firstly, I have to apologise for the delay in posting this latest blog. It has been a very busy summer for a variety of reasons but also a very frustrating one. I had several plans for interesting photography shoots over the summer months but the appallingly wet weather here in Scotland made it all but impossible to find time when the rain had stopped, the light was favourable and I was available. I could have used the time away from my camera to write more but I was missing the photography that for me is so much an integral part of what I write about. I did manage a few days here and there and latterly spent some time with my macro lens photographing dragonflies and damselflies along the fringes of midge infested ponds. As I discovered, that posed a few interesting challenges. However that is a story for another day. Earlier this year I was fortunate enough to come second in the Scottish Wildlife Section of the annual photography co