Puffin Watching -Original Painting June This viewpoint shows Lindisfarne Castle

This viewpoint shows Lindisfarne Castle on Holy Island across the narrow stretch of sea

It's a time of great effort and exertion for the birds

Because while people are watching the puffins

They have to work so hard to find and catch their food

this replica has some areas that have been  extrapolated

Puffin Watching -Original Painting June This viewpoint shows Lindisfarne CastleThe title of this painting, "Puffin Watching" is deliberately ambiguous. Because while people are watching the puffins, those puffins are also watching us! It feels a comfortably relaxed reciprocal arrangement, in which both parties get to see the other, without too much stress or disruption. Listening to a podcast about puffins in Nova Scotia, Canada, the presenter mentioned that researchers there needed a bird hide or "blind" to get close enough to