Comments on: Flying Puffins With Fish; A Long Ago Tale…/Lucky Peter/UK Puffins and Gannets IPT Announced https://www.birdsasart-blog.com/baa/2014/03/27/flying-puffins-with-fish-a-long-ago-tale-lucky-peteruk-puffins-and-gannets-ipt-announced/ The blog of bird photographer Arthur Morris Mon, 18 Aug 2014 08:38:25 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.3 By: Peter Harrison https://www.birdsasart-blog.com/baa/2014/03/27/flying-puffins-with-fish-a-long-ago-tale-lucky-peteruk-puffins-and-gannets-ipt-announced/comment-page-1/#comment-994303 Sat, 19 Apr 2014 18:17:47 +0000 http://www.birdsasart-blog.com/?p=19118#comment-994303 Just wanted to say how much we enjoyed reading your informative blog and the story on “Lucky English Pete.” I was impressed that you remembered so much of the story and, kid you not, we did actually freeze the poor bugger onto plastic bags, laid him out onto the floor, and then stood him up, wedging him upright with the help of frozen fish bags. This is a true story, as all of my stories are.
Your puffin shots are simply outstanding, the best I’ve ever seen. My research notes tell me that 47 fish is the current record for the number of fish a puffin can hold in its bill at any one time.

Hey Peter, Thanks for visiting. It was great to learn that you and Shirley are doing well. Please let me know about the planned trip that will include the Whiskered Auklets… I would love to photograph that species before they put me in the box. artie

]]> By: David Policansky https://www.birdsasart-blog.com/baa/2014/03/27/flying-puffins-with-fish-a-long-ago-tale-lucky-peteruk-puffins-and-gannets-ipt-announced/comment-page-1/#comment-914019 Fri, 28 Mar 2014 15:32:00 +0000 http://www.birdsasart-blog.com/?p=19118#comment-914019 I love that story. Long ago I was doing research on starry flounders and needed some from the Santa Cruz, CA area, and so I found a fisherman who was willing to take me out on his boat to get some. He was no ordinary fisherman; he funded the music department at UC Santa Cruz, where his wife was on the faculty, to buy pianos. I made his taking me out worth his while because I was able to find his trammel net in the fog for him by spotting the flag that marked one of the ends. And what a wonderful image.

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