Skomer Island

The photos in this post were all taken on a day at Skomer Island, as part of a four day field trip to the South Pembrokeshire coast for my degree course. We were lucky enough to get a guided boat tour around the island to get a great view of the puffins, guillemots and grey seals. Here's a collection of the images I managed. Some of them were taken on the mainland before we headed out on the boat tour. 

I tried to use captions for the images on this blog post but never again will I attempt that; the formatting issues it creates are a nightmare, and virtually everything needs fixing in the HTML to fix it, so I'm just gonna describe photos in my usual unprofessional way instead; below is one of a huge area of foxgloves found on the mainland.

Lots of rock pipits were around, but they were usually at quite a distance, so the record shot below is the best I managed. 

Some grey seals chilling on the rocks. Picture taken from the tour boat.

Large colonies of guillemots on the cliff faces... 

And finally, perhaps the biggest tourist attraction to the island, puffins: 

Glad I finally managed to get this post up, had these photos hanging around for ages. Thanks for reading folks.