The Atlantic puffin comes into land at about three years of age where it nests in burrows , that it either excavates itself or borrow from rabbits. The vast colonies are a busy sight with the constant chirp of the birds and the flying in and out of the birds as they fish for the Sand Eel, their major food source.

Lurking around are the top predators of the area the gulls, either the Greater Black Backed Gull, Lesser Black Backed or the Herring Gull, which is the aggressor below. This gull waited for the puffin to return to its burrow with a beak stuffed full of fish before attacking – classic ambush predator tactics. The puffin was actually plucked out of the underground burrow and set upon in a rather dramatic scene. The Herring Gull is capable of killing a puffin but does so relatively rarely but was content on this occasion to steal its mouthful of fish.