Home Sweet Home- Puffin Pair Archaeology in September 2023

in September 2023

This particular figure has long blonde hair in a plait at the back

Both parents share turns incubating the egg and caring for the chick once hatched

with an unwavering gaze

The longer piece appears to be composed of sections of chain with gold spacers between each section to form a flat

Home Sweet Home- Puffin Pair Archaeology in September 2023It's one of my favourite summertime treats to go and see the puffins on Northumberland's Farne Islands. I never tire of watching these colouful little birds going about their daily business of fishing and flying back to their burrows with beaks full of sand eels. They have to work so hard to find and catch their food, and once back to the islands, they have to avoid being "mugged" by gulls who try to steal their catches. So it's lovely to see them