Discovering Skomer Island, June 2022

A slow TV walk around the Pembrokeshire Island of Skomer, a few miles off the south-western corner of Wales, UK. June is a peak time for puffin activity on the island as the parents struggle to keep their young fed, and the chicks start to emerge from their burrows, fully fledged and ready to perform for the cameras.
Internationally important as a breeding ground for hundreds of thousands of sea birds, this video shows the puffins, guillemots, razorbills and gulls in their island setting.
It was a crazily windy day, so I am afraid camera stability and ambient noise both suffered from the unremmitting buffettings and gusts of a late June summer gale. On the upside, it was cool enough to tempt more puffins to spend time outside their burrows.
There is more to Skomer that just sea birds, and the video covers both the prehistoric landscape and natural history of the island which is a National Nature Reserve and Scheduled monument.
But if you are just here for the puffins, you can always just skip straight through to the half-way point.
Credit to OpenStreetMap for the base-maps and to The Wildlife Trust of South and West Wales for the helpful guide book, 'Skomer: Maps, trails and information'.