Hermaness

Hermaness, originally uploaded by British Traveller.

I tantalised you earlier with my sighting of a puffin, but I wasn't able to get a photo. Well, I'm making up for it now. There puffins were at Hermaness Nature Reserve. It's impossible to get around Unst without a car so the hostel warden gave me a lift up. The reserve is simply swarming with puffins, and they let you get extremely close. There's also gannets, and great skuas, which dive bomb you if you get too close to their nest. You're supposed to carry a stick to fight them off, but today I think I saw more skuas than you could shake a stick at.