Photo set: Stormy Weather In Brighton

A collection of photographs taken from Brighton pier in November 2009, while storms caused rough weather in the English Channel and on the Sussex coast.

Stormy weather in Brighton

Highland Games

The Isle of Mull, June 2009

The Isle of Mull is an island in the Inner Hebrides, a few miles from the coast of western Scotland. On its northernmost point lies Tobermory, an adorable port town which is the setting for the BBC children’s program ‘Balamory’; at the very south of the island, generations of Scottish kings are buried at Iona Abbey. Between its heralded tips are forty square miles of raw nature: tranquil lochs, moody glens and rugged marshland that are dashing even under grey skies.

Lochscapes: the Isle of Mull in photographs

A gallery of photographs taken on the Isle of Mull, and the smaller islands of Staffa and Lunga to its west, in June and July 2009.

Fishing boat, Pennyghael, Isle of Mull

Much Ado About Puffins

Atlantic puffins, one of nature’s most charming and eccentric birds, on the Hebridean islands of Lunga and Staffa. Click on the pictures to enlarge them.

Atlantic Puffin with Sand Eel

“What time do you call this?”

In the summer, Atlantic puffins build burrows in Lunga’s cliffs and raise chicks, taxiing out to the ocean several times an hour in search of food and bringing small fish and sand eels home. Looking at this photo, it seems to me that the puffin on the left has returned late and without any fish, a fact which the puffin on the right is less than impressed about.

 

"What time do you call this?"

 

Isle of Mull gallery: birds

A collection of Mull’s birds. Click on the photographs below to enlarge them.

Greylag Geese

Isle of Mull gallery: wildlife

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Black-faced Sheep