Lundi Pysja!
Lundi = puffin.
Pysja = baby puffin, or puffling.
At the end of the summer, the pufflings come out of their nests in the ground and fly out to sea, but some are confused by the lights in town and on the pavement instead of on the water. The children (and visitors like me) rescue the pufflings and send them back out to sea.
I was in Vestmannaeyjar just as the pufflings, late this year, began to emerge from their nests and head out to sea. After a poor years with few pufflings, this was a good year, and everyone in town was very excited about it. I saw quite a few: first in their holes when I went along with a scientist who was being filmed showing the puffin nests to a German TV crew, then real live pufflings caught by kids in town when I was invited along to see them released, and finally a puffling of my own!
Sep 2, 2007
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