Puffin Watching -Original Painting June Because while people are watching

Because while people are watching the puffins

My nearest lily pond is in the formal gardens of nearby Cragside House

Dramatic white horse waves trailed manes of white spume across the bay

this replica has some areas that have been  extrapolated

I need to get better quickly or I’ll miss them

Puffin Watching -Original Painting June Because while people are watchingThe 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