In Search of Puffins - Witless Bay, Newfoundland

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In Search of Puffins - Witless Bay, Newfoundland

The day dawned gray, overcast and raw and we dressed warmly, anticipating a cold ride. The boat left promptly at 10am and we headed to the Witless Bay Ecological Reserve. The Reserve is home to innumerable nesting seabirds, murres,cormorants, kittiwakes, storm petrels and most importantly an estimated 260,000 pairs of puffins… the largest Atlantic puffin colony in North America. 260,000 pairs! That’s over half a million puffins!

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Newfoundland - Port au Choix

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Newfoundland - Port au Choix

En route, we were treated to a Newfoundland traffic jam… scruffy-looking caribou (reindeer) shedding their winter fur, crowded onto the road. They seemed in no particular hurry. In fact, one of the males took a few minutes to scratch himself on the hood of one of the stopped cars.

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