Birds and Bluebells on Puffin Island

Posted on May 18, 2016

Regular readers of this weblog, (oh I hate that word, it’s not even woody sounding…..) Right, start again, and from this point onwards, this ‘photo and musings diary’ will be referred to as a wetlog – because it’s is more like a saturated piece of driftwood than something that was made up by an adolescent who is too lazy to spell properly…..

Anyway, here’s still a thing, regular readers to this wet-log will already understand that I have a love affair with Lundy Island. Its totally irrational of course, just because when I look out to sea from where I live; it’s there. Remote, wild & a daily antidote to the shit that is the struggle to pay the price they charge to live on this planet. I have visited and stayed on the island, (on many occasions with many good friends), but, here’s the real thing; I’ve never seen a puffin. Yes. Fuck me, he name Lundy is believed to come from the old Norse word for “puffin island” (Lundey), lundi being the Old Norse word for a puffin and ey, an island, although an alternative explanation has been suggested with Lund referring to a copse, or wooded area. Personally, I defer to the wooded corpse theory because, and here’s another bombshell, I’ve never seen a bluebell on Lundy either.

Two days ago I joined an ex Tibbettian and we went to see if we could see a Puffin – and the surprise was that the island was coated with bluebells… (A sure sign that the island was once a wooded area).