Puffin
 

hello everyone
I spent last week in Lapland in Finland and Norway
Many interesting species
if you want to see the whole gallery on Lapland with landscape and animals here :
[url]http://www.pbase.com/carlogalliani/lapland_spring[/url]

I had too many shots at the Puffin and this is an entire gallery dedicated to the Puffin
[url]http://www.pbase.com/carlogalliani/puffin[/url]

some examples :

[IMG]http://img189.imageshack.us/img189/5726/dsc1480pbase.jpg[/IMG]

[IMG]http://img845.imageshack.us/img845/6438/dsc1686pbase.jpg[/IMG]

[IMG]http://img703.imageshack.us/img703/9211/dsc1324h.jpg[/IMG]

[IMG]http://img525.imageshack.us/img525/8576/dsc1652pbase.jpg[/IMG]

and in flight

[IMG]http://img594.imageshack.us/img594/6228/dsc1575pbase.jpg[/IMG]

[IMG]http://img207.imageshack.us/img207/5479/dsc1642pbase.jpg[/IMG]

[IMG]http://img805.imageshack.us/img805/192/dsc1766pbase.jpg[/IMG]

[IMG]http://img826.imageshack.us/img826/5089/dsc1670pbase.jpg[/IMG]

A stunning set of images, great to get such close ups a lot of people don't realise how small puffins are especially when great close ups like thes are published.

thank you very much