Several thousand kittiwakes

This series of photographs by Mr John A Jeffery, of Gothic Lodge, Hartland, are among the many he took on a week’s holiday on the island of Lundy.

Mr Jeffery, frequently a prize-winner at Bideford Camera Club competitions, has made something of a speciality of bird photograph. He returned from Lundy with some splendid results but minus one of his cameras which he lost over the cliffs.

The photograph above is of puffins, who have come to be regarded as the emblem of the island. Mr Jeffery reports that there are now about 50 or 60 nesting on the island. He adds “There are said to have been 2,000 or more there in 1939. Perhaps oil pollution is driving them north?”

A group of kittiwakes form the subject of a photograph – several thousand nest at the north end of the island.

June 1965