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# 15th July 2026: Skomer Island, Pembrokeshire
- URL: https://www.paperweightmag.com/15th-july-2026-skomer-island-pembrokeshire/
- Published: 2026-07-19T09:58:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-07-19T09:58:15.000Z
- Description: A hot summer's day on Skomer Island, where the adult puffins are bringing sand eels back to their burrows, where the young pufflings are.
- Author: Sunday Paperweight
- Tags: Darkroom

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/97/7c/977c5cdf-7176-4cbd-bf06-fc5902787e82/content/images/2026/07/3F23XRJ-1.jpg)

Credit: Phil Jones/Alamy Live News

The landscape around the cliff edge is covered with corn chamomile and bracken, among which lie the burrows. As the puffins come in to land, the black-backed gulls are waiting to try and steal the catch, so the puffins dart quickly into their nest sites. 

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