For those of you who follow our pages fervently you may recall the disappointment experienced when our boat trip to the <a href="http://pigyard.com/wordpress/archives/2572" target="_blank">Farne Islands</a> failed to produce any sightings of a Puffin. Today we saw more puffins than we could dream of.

We travelled north on the hottest day of the year leaving temperatures of over 30 degrees behind and rolled up at <a href="http://www.rspb.org.uk/discoverandenjoynature/seenature/reserves/guide/b/bemptoncliffs/index.aspx?gclid=COG10I_lusYCFcPMtAodYnsGuA" target="_blank">RSPB Bempton Cliffs</a> just before midday with a pleasant breeze and eighteen degrees - this is our kind of weather. After enquiring at the centre we were told there were puffins still on the cliffs.

We walked to the furthest viewing point and watched Gannets floating off the cliff edge before dropping down onto the nests. Then we saw the puffins flying into their nests but they were too fast to get a photograph. Further along the cliffs we were rewards with some wonderful shots of a couple of puffins sitting a few metres away. A brilliant day and worth every minute of the journey.