p.2 #3 · It ain't easy being a puffin (Graphic Images)
Very interesting set Harry!! In my hours at Elliston, I had not see this behaviour but did notice the gulls patrolling the area, and nesting on the same rocky island. You sure captured some cool action images. My 400 was nowhere long enough to get decent image from across the gap between the island the mainland. Well done sir!!
p.2 #4 · It ain't easy being a puffin (Graphic Images)
Those Puffins look tiny compared to those gulls Harry. Hard to believe they could catch the puffins while in flight. Doesn't look like they had any problem ganging up on the Puffins either Maybe you should send over a Great Gray to run the gulls out
Fantastic shots of the real world where they live, interesting, cruel and understandable........Nature is a powerful balancing force.
Karl
p.2 #6 · It ain't easy being a puffin (Graphic Images)
Wow Harry, this is some action that I have never seen posted before! It sure makes you feel sorry for the Puffins Very interesting action and well captured at that. TFS
p.2 #7 · It ain't easy being a puffin (Graphic Images)
jasonp1 wrote:
Never did like Gulls... Great series
+1
Apparently on the Hebrides isles (and presumably other places) the puffins wait off shore until the boatloads of photographers arrive and then head for their burrows with their sandeels - they have learned that the photographers put off the seagulls but don't harm puffins!
Niall
p.2 #8 · It ain't easy being a puffin (Graphic Images)
Terrific behavioral series, Harry. Unsettling to see such lovely birds attacked by gulls, but such is nature. Mush have been quite a scene to witness. Thanks for sharing these.
p.2 #10 · It ain't easy being a puffin (Graphic Images)
great series harry
I know one isnt meant to intervene in nature but for my tenth birthday I was given a .22 bolt action + unlimited ammunition with the brief from my father that he did not want to see a cat, a fox (they are feral down under) or any currawongs any where near our homestead. My older brother and I did a pretty good job and we would have kept a cat/fox/currawong free zone for about a mile radius and the result was we identified 122 separate species of birds in our homestead garden.
p.2 #12 · It ain't easy being a puffin (Graphic Images)
Very nice images and documentation, Harry.
This may not be a simple case of nature taking its course. By intentional feeding and by making garbage available, humans are providing food to gulls, ravens, crows, and other nest predators--increasing their populations above natural levels. This puts the populations of other birds at risk, especially in the nesting season. I don't know the situation for the gulls in Harry's documentation, but in other places human-caused increases of populations of nest predators is an ecological problem--not natural in the usual sense.
Maybe you should send over a Great Gray to run the gulls out 
Great series