Puffin Island

Puffins are brilliant. They live up to their nickname of the clowns of the sea: I think they might even beat toucans and penguins to top comical bird status. It’s impossible to watch them here – bobbing on the waves, zooming about underwater, enjoying a clifftop party – without a smile on your face. That’s really all the reason you need to watch this ten-minute documentary about a puffin colony on Skomer Island off the Pembrokeshire coast – which is just as well, because the “humorous” narration is pretty tiresome. Still, we do learn some vital puffin facts: for instance, their offspring are called pufflings, and they sneak into rabbit warrens because they can’t be bothered to dig their own burrows. Funny and clever.