German TV crew watching the Puffin Guy set up to look in the puffin nests
Puffin Guy uses fancy camera and goggles to look at puffling in its nest
TV crew films the "research"
Then they tell him how to do it again so they can get the footage they want
So he tries again
Cameraman reviews the film
And changes the tape
And one last shot looking in the puffin holes.
My first trip to see a baby puffin being released: the baby puffins instinctually bite even helpful fingers.
Father shows the puffling before his son releases it.
Son releases the puffling while his father looks on.
Another kid with a puffling, an exciting moment because it was his first in two years.
Fly away, little puffling!
The box with my very own puffling that I caught in the streets of Vestmannaeyjar.
Me with the box, in the window.
Sign at the aquarium in town reminding the kids to bring in their puffins to be measured and weighed before re-releasing them.
Scale outside the aquarium for weighing the pufflings.
Weighing my puffling at the aquarium.
Measuring the puffling's wingspan.
And a look at my puffling while in the box.
Measuring a puffling's wingspan as a group of kids look on.
It's a tricky business to measure a puffin's wings.
My puffling again, on the coast near where I released him: I made him model for pictures before releasing him.
Pufflings make unwilling models.
Me with my puffling.
Self portraits are harder with pufflings.
And here's where I released him, though the little puffling on the water is too small to see.
Adult puffin bringing back sandeels for the baby puffling from its nest, from the museum display.
Puffin, with handy Icelandic label.
Whole puffin colony in the museum.
