Category: Puffins
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This fine photo of a tufted puffin is by Chris Dodds. Peconic Jeff spotted it.
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Maddy and Zac in Portland.
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With the bulk of the Puffin/Wind Chimp community up north snowboarding at CD’s place (wish I coulda made it!) I have no tales of derring-do (or doofus do) of my own to share. So thank you Bill Nightingale for sending this peach…Alaska wakeboarding (featuring a special appearance by a puffin 56 seconds into the video.)…
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Every year on February 2nd, Peconic Puffins emerge from their burrow and consider their shadows. If there's a shadow, what does it mean? Should I visit Bill and Hulse in Puerto Rico? Take the wife to Bonaire? Check the seals on my drysuit? Or just bring my fin collection to the kitchen table, do some…
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The Wolf returned to the water a few days ago, sufficiently recovered from a dinged knee. Peconic Jeff noted that this event took place on the auspicious day of a Wolf Moon. I asked Jeff (who knows about moons) when the Puffin Moon was, as I am desperate to get back on the water. Jeff…
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The editors and staff of the Peconic Puffin wish you a Merry Christmas! The image is from a favorite Christmas card, which says “original design by Roz Davis”. We thank Roz every year (Thanks Roz!)
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Peconic Jeff put me on to The Mighty Sven, a puffin in Happy Feet Two (penguin movie…been there done that. Would do it again, too…penguins and movies go together!) Sven is said to be "a tufted puffin passing himself off as a penguin who can fly." Passing himself off as a penguin? I think they've…
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RIFF, the Reykjavik International Film Festival, is Iceland's number one film event. They say they are, so it could be true. Certainly they're the tops with us at the Peconic Puffin, because RIFF's grand prize is… The Golden Puffin! How cool is that? There are puffins all over the RIFF website…some appear to be…
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No boards or sails here. Sometimes puffining takes me to strange places. This young lady is named Rhiannon, and was a member of a puffin club (a penguin may have been involved as well.) In addition to puffins she blogs about fashion. I have a GREAT puffin tie, but no photo of me wearing it. …
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Surfboard craftsman and waterman Rotorhead sent the alert: "AKC Welcomes Three New BreedsThe American Kennel Club is pleased to announce that three new breeds became eligible for AKC registration on January 1, 2011, bringing the totally number of registered breeds to 170. (let's skip #1 and get to the point:) The Norwegian Lundehund is…