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This arises from something on another thread, and a bit of a puffin fixation on my part, and a tendency to fantasise about impossible climbing trips during a time when I can't get out for family reasons, and a discussion with a friend. Are there any climbing venues in the UK with routes at Severe and below, where you can climb within sight of puffins, and that isn't impossibly remote (meaning that you can get there by train/car and scheduled ferry, not specially-persuaded fisherman in coracle).

I'm thinking that [known climbing venue] plus [known puffin nesting area] = bird bans, so this must be unlikely if not impossible!

Grateful for all wild ideas!
L

In reply to BusyLizzie: There are puffins at Dancing Ledge, Swanage

In reply to BusyLizzie:

You can see puffins around Longhaven on the north Aberdeen coast.

In reply to BusyLizzie:

Somewhere on Lundy, I'd imagine?

In reply to BusyLizzie:
There were about a dozen on top of the Old Man of Hoy at the end of June, within 5 feet!

Thus group were climbing the same day as us
http://skyeguides.co.uk/classic-scottish-sandstone-tour-22-28th-june-2014/#...

(edited to include link)

In reply to BusyLizzie:

Coracle. Great word, coracle.

Coracle, coracle, coracle.

Sorry.

(See poems thread for further coracle-fixating.)

In reply to Cardi:

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Awwwwwww!!!! (transports of delight)

In reply to Tim Chappell:

Humph. We need a poem that includes both puffins and coracles.

To everybody else, thank you for lovely ideas. I'd no idea that puffins got to Swanage, or that there were other accessible possibilities! I fear that likelihood of puffins may be in direct proportion to hardness of climbing... But I will investigate further.

In reply to BusyLizzie:


I'm down if I spot nuffin'
When I'm Twitching in my coracle,
But I wax rhetorical
if I spot a puffin.

In reply to Tim Chappell:

When climbing one day on a stack
I stopped for a rest and a snack.
A puffin flew by
In that Hebridean sky
And I was so surprised that I couldn't do rhyme or scansion any more.