PUFFIN ISLAND, off Black Point. This island is home to a wide variety of nesting seabirds whose 'chittering and chattering' can be heard day and night. This island was home to a huge colony of Puffins in the 17/1800's but rat infested ships which broke up in storms and squalls around this island released their rodent stowaways and the surviving rats made it ashore. The rats settled and soon began to chomp through the poor little Puffin eggs ...wiping out their numbers over time. Even to this day, men have to sail over to the island to lay rat-bait and so continue the war against them so as not to allow the rodents another free hand of further 'eggstinction'.
