Home Sweet Home- Puffin Pair Archaeology It was painted in various

It was painted in various moods by JM Turner on his first visit to Northumberland in 1797 and on subsequent visits up until 1834

Both parents share turns incubating the egg and caring for the chick once hatched

with an unwavering gaze

which transports the viewer to a dappled grove of nodding bluebells

Home Sweet Home- Puffin Pair Archaeology It was painted in variousIt's one of my favourite summertime treats to go and see the puffins on Northumberland's Farne Islands. I never tire of watching these colouful little birds going about their daily business of fishing and flying back to their burrows with beaks full of sand eels. They have to work so hard to find and catch their food, and once back to the islands, they have to avoid being "mugged" by gulls who try to steal their catches. So it's lovely to see them