A Cornish Year… our feature book

Con­tinu­ing the snip­pets from our fea­ture book, David Chap­man’s A Cornish Year…

14 May: A Scilly Holiday

‘The Scil­lies are renowned among orni­tho­lo­gists … There are many dif­fer­ent seabirds nest­ing around Scilly, includ­ing: cor­mor­ant; shag; com­mon tern; kit­ti­wake; gulls (lesser black-​​backed, great black-​​backed and her­ring); Manx shear­wa­ter; storm pet­rel; guille­mot, razor­bill an puffin. Of all these, the puffin is the star.’ To find out how and where  to see the puffins, you’ll have to read the book!

A puffin in flight © David Chapman