Nigel Humphreys's Pictures of Isle of Anglesey

A picture of Isle of Anglesey

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'.

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Isle of Anglesey

Camera Make: FUJIFILM Model: FinePix S3500

A picture of Isle of Anglesey

Penmon lighthouse off Black Point, Anglesey, Wales. The sky this night turned the most magical pink and then give way to the most amazing starry night I have ever seen. I saw three shooting stars which lasted more than 3 seconds in their journey across the heavens.

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Isle of Anglesey

Camera Make: FUJIFILM Model: FinePix S3500