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Spot the Fake Puffin Buddy
22-08-2024
2024
wacky and real life
Spot the Fake Puffin Buddy UK By Saloni Mathur **WITH FULL PERMISSIONS** YOU ARE a British wildlife expert if you can tell the real puffins from the decoy this clever photographer used to enable him to get up close and personal with these quirky birds. The entertaining images show a group of puffins interacting with a puffin decoy they mistook for a potential mate near Farne Islands in Northumberland. Wildlife photographer Brian Matthews used two fake puffin models to attract the puffins and photographed them from close quarters. One came as close as three inches. Brian was able to control the fakes through a pole he attached to them. He would make them dive and splash around in the water to make them more enticing to the birds. “I spend around three to four hours in the water, with the help of the decoy that piqued the puffins' curiosity, the birds in the water eventually surrounded me,” he told mediadrumworld.com. “The puffins came to check the fakes out to see if they were potential mates. At one time, there were almost a thousand birds around me. “When they gathered around me, I stayed as still as possible so as not to spook them. As seen in the pictures, only my head and camera were out of the water. “It took a long time to plan these shots (over a year), and once we made it work and got these new images of one of the most photographed birds in the world, we felt thrilled and relieved. “It was amazing to spend time with these wild, funny-looking birds in their natural habitat before they leave for the season.” ENDs
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captionPlastic puffin vs real one UK YOU ARE a British wildlife expert if you can tell the real puffins from the decoy this clever photographer used to enable him to get up close and personal with these quirky birds. The entertaining images show a group of puffins interacting with a puffin decoy they mistook for a potential mate near Farne Islands in Northumberland. Wildlife photographer Brian Matthews used two fake puffin models to attract the puffins and photographed them from close quarters. One came as close as three inches. Brian was able to control the fakes through a pole he attached to them. He would make them dive and splash around in the water to make them more enticing to the birds. “I spend around three to four hours in the water, with the help of the decoy that piqued the puffins' curiosity, the birds in the water eventually surrounded me,” he told mediadrumworld.com. “The puffins came to check the fakes out to see if they were potential mates. At one time, there were almost a thousand birds around me. “When they gathered around me, I stayed as still as possible so as not to spook them. As seen in the pictures, only my head and camera were out of the water. “It took a long time to plan these shots (over a year), and once we made it work and got these new images of one of the most photographed birds in the world, we felt thrilled and relieved. “It was amazing to spend time with these wild, funny-looking birds in their natural habitat before they leave for the season.” ENDs
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captionCamera equipment and puffin decoys UK YOU ARE a British wildlife expert if you can tell the real puffins from the decoy this clever photographer used to enable him to get up close and personal with these quirky birds. The entertaining images show a group of puffins interacting with a puffin decoy they mistook for a potential mate near Farne Islands in Northumberland. Wildlife photographer Brian Matthews used two fake puffin models to attract the puffins and photographed them from close quarters. One came as close as three inches. Brian was able to control the fakes through a pole he attached to them. He would make them dive and splash around in the water to make them more enticing to the birds. “I spend around three to four hours in the water, with the help of the decoy that piqued the puffins' curiosity, the birds in the water eventually surrounded me,” he told mediadrumworld.com. “The puffins came to check the fakes out to see if they were potential mates. At one time, there were almost a thousand birds around me. “When they gathered around me, I stayed as still as possible so as not to spook them. As seen in the pictures, only my head and camera were out of the water. “It took a long time to plan these shots (over a year), and once we made it work and got these new images of one of the most photographed birds in the world, we felt thrilled and relieved. “It was amazing to spend time with these wild, funny-looking birds in their natural habitat before they leave for the season.” ENDs
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captionPuffins surround the decoy UK YOU ARE a British wildlife expert if you can tell the real puffins from the decoy this clever photographer used to enable him to get up close and personal with these quirky birds. The entertaining images show a group of puffins interacting with a puffin decoy they mistook for a potential mate near Farne Islands in Northumberland. Wildlife photographer Brian Matthews used two fake puffin models to attract the puffins and photographed them from close quarters. One came as close as three inches. Brian was able to control the fakes through a pole he attached to them. He would make them dive and splash around in the water to make them more enticing to the birds. “I spend around three to four hours in the water, with the help of the decoy that piqued the puffins' curiosity, the birds in the water eventually surrounded me,” he told mediadrumworld.com. “The puffins came to check the fakes out to see if they were potential mates. At one time, there were almost a thousand birds around me. “When they gathered around me, I stayed as still as possible so as not to spook them. As seen in the pictures, only my head and camera were out of the water. “It took a long time to plan these shots (over a year), and once we made it work and got these new images of one of the most photographed birds in the world, we felt thrilled and relieved. “It was amazing to spend time with these wild, funny-looking birds in their natural habitat before they leave for the season.” ENDs
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captionThey mistook for a potential mate UK YOU ARE a British wildlife expert if you can tell the real puffins from the decoy this clever photographer used to enable him to get up close and personal with these quirky birds. The entertaining images show a group of puffins interacting with a puffin decoy they mistook for a potential mate near Farne Islands in Northumberland. Wildlife photographer Brian Matthews used two fake puffin models to attract the puffins and photographed them from close quarters. One came as close as three inches. Brian was able to control the fakes through a pole he attached to them. He would make them dive and splash around in the water to make them more enticing to the birds. “I spend around three to four hours in the water, with the help of the decoy that piqued the puffins' curiosity, the birds in the water eventually surrounded me,” he told mediadrumworld.com. “The puffins came to check the fakes out to see if they were potential mates. At one time, there were almost a thousand birds around me. “When they gathered around me, I stayed as still as possible so as not to spook them. As seen in the pictures, only my head and camera were out of the water. “It took a long time to plan these shots (over a year), and once we made it work and got these new images of one of the most photographed birds in the world, we felt thrilled and relieved. “It was amazing to spend time with these wild, funny-looking birds in their natural habitat before they leave for the season.” ENDs
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captionPhotographer Brian Matthews setting up the decoy puffin UK YOU ARE a British wildlife expert if you can tell the real puffins from the decoy this clever photographer used to enable him to get up close and personal with these quirky birds. The entertaining images show a group of puffins interacting with a puffin decoy they mistook for a potential mate near Farne Islands in Northumberland. Wildlife photographer Brian Matthews used two fake puffin models to attract the puffins and photographed them from close quarters. One came as close as three inches. Brian was able to control the fakes through a pole he attached to them. He would make them dive and splash around in the water to make them more enticing to the birds. “I spend around three to four hours in the water, with the help of the decoy that piqued the puffins' curiosity, the birds in the water eventually surrounded me,” he told mediadrumworld.com. “The puffins came to check the fakes out to see if they were potential mates. At one time, there were almost a thousand birds around me. “When they gathered around me, I stayed as still as possible so as not to spook them. As seen in the pictures, only my head and camera were out of the water. “It took a long time to plan these shots (over a year), and once we made it work and got these new images of one of the most photographed birds in the world, we felt thrilled and relieved. “It was amazing to spend time with these wild, funny-looking birds in their natural habitat before they leave for the season.” ENDs
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captionPuffins interacting with a puffin decoy UK YOU ARE a British wildlife expert if you can tell the real puffins from the decoy this clever photographer used to enable him to get up close and personal with these quirky birds. The entertaining images show a group of puffins interacting with a puffin decoy they mistook for a potential mate near Farne Islands in Northumberland. Wildlife photographer Brian Matthews used two fake puffin models to attract the puffins and photographed them from close quarters. One came as close as three inches. Brian was able to control the fakes through a pole he attached to them. He would make them dive and splash around in the water to make them more enticing to the birds. “I spend around three to four hours in the water, with the help of the decoy that piqued the puffins' curiosity, the birds in the water eventually surrounded me,” he told mediadrumworld.com. “The puffins came to check the fakes out to see if they were potential mates. At one time, there were almost a thousand birds around me. “When they gathered around me, I stayed as still as possible so as not to spook them. As seen in the pictures, only my head and camera were out of the water. “It took a long time to plan these shots (over a year), and once we made it work and got these new images of one of the most photographed birds in the world, we felt thrilled and relieved. “It was amazing to spend time with these wild, funny-looking birds in their natural habitat before they leave for the season.” ENDs
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captionPhotographer Brian Matthews UK YOU ARE a British wildlife expert if you can tell the real puffins from the decoy this clever photographer used to enable him to get up close and personal with these quirky birds. The entertaining images show a group of puffins interacting with a puffin decoy they mistook for a potential mate near Farne Islands in Northumberland. Wildlife photographer Brian Matthews used two fake puffin models to attract the puffins and photographed them from close quarters. One came as close as three inches. Brian was able to control the fakes through a pole he attached to them. He would make them dive and splash around in the water to make them more enticing to the birds. “I spend around three to four hours in the water, with the help of the decoy that piqued the puffins' curiosity, the birds in the water eventually surrounded me,” he told mediadrumworld.com. “The puffins came to check the fakes out to see if they were potential mates. At one time, there were almost a thousand birds around me. “When they gathered around me, I stayed as still as possible so as not to spook them. As seen in the pictures, only my head and camera were out of the water. “It took a long time to plan these shots (over a year), and once we made it work and got these new images of one of the most photographed birds in the world, we felt thrilled and relieved. “It was amazing to spend time with these wild, funny-looking birds in their natural habitat before they leave for the season.” ENDs
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captionThis method is used to get their photographs from a closer perspective than normal. UK YOU ARE a British wildlife expert if you can tell the real puffins from the decoy this clever photographer used to enable him to get up close and personal with these quirky birds. The entertaining images show a group of puffins interacting with a puffin decoy they mistook for a potential mate near Farne Islands in Northumberland. Wildlife photographer Brian Matthews used two fake puffin models to attract the puffins and photographed them from close quarters. One came as close as three inches. Brian was able to control the fakes through a pole he attached to them. He would make them dive and splash around in the water to make them more enticing to the birds. “I spend around three to four hours in the water, with the help of the decoy that piqued the puffins' curiosity, the birds in the water eventually surrounded me,” he told mediadrumworld.com. “The puffins came to check the fakes out to see if they were potential mates. At one time, there were almost a thousand birds around me. “When they gathered around me, I stayed as still as possible so as not to spook them. As seen in the pictures, only my head and camera were out of the water. “It took a long time to plan these shots (over a year), and once we made it work and got these new images of one of the most photographed birds in the world, we felt thrilled and relieved. “It was amazing to spend time with these wild, funny-looking birds in their natural habitat before they leave for the season.” ENDs
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captionPuffin half in UK YOU ARE a British wildlife expert if you can tell the real puffins from the decoy this clever photographer used to enable him to get up close and personal with these quirky birds. The entertaining images show a group of puffins interacting with a puffin decoy they mistook for a potential mate near Farne Islands in Northumberland. Wildlife photographer Brian Matthews used two fake puffin models to attract the puffins and photographed them from close quarters. One came as close as three inches. Brian was able to control the fakes through a pole he attached to them. He would make them dive and splash around in the water to make them more enticing to the birds. “I spend around three to four hours in the water, with the help of the decoy that piqued the puffins' curiosity, the birds in the water eventually surrounded me,” he told mediadrumworld.com. “The puffins came to check the fakes out to see if they were potential mates. At one time, there were almost a thousand birds around me. “When they gathered around me, I stayed as still as possible so as not to spook them. As seen in the pictures, only my head and camera were out of the water. “It took a long time to plan these shots (over a year), and once we made it work and got these new images of one of the most photographed birds in the world, we felt thrilled and relieved. “It was amazing to spend time with these wild, funny-looking birds in their natural habitat before they leave for the season.” ENDs
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captionSetting the two decoys in water UK YOU ARE a British wildlife expert if you can tell the real puffins from the decoy this clever photographer used to enable him to get up close and personal with these quirky birds. The entertaining images show a group of puffins interacting with a puffin decoy they mistook for a potential mate near Farne Islands in Northumberland. Wildlife photographer Brian Matthews used two fake puffin models to attract the puffins and photographed them from close quarters. One came as close as three inches. Brian was able to control the fakes through a pole he attached to them. He would make them dive and splash around in the water to make them more enticing to the birds. “I spend around three to four hours in the water, with the help of the decoy that piqued the puffins' curiosity, the birds in the water eventually surrounded me,” he told mediadrumworld.com. “The puffins came to check the fakes out to see if they were potential mates. At one time, there were almost a thousand birds around me. “When they gathered around me, I stayed as still as possible so as not to spook them. As seen in the pictures, only my head and camera were out of the water. “It took a long time to plan these shots (over a year), and once we made it work and got these new images of one of the most photographed birds in the world, we felt thrilled and relieved. “It was amazing to spend time with these wild, funny-looking birds in their natural habitat before they leave for the season.” ENDs
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captionPuffin approaches the decoy UK YOU ARE a British wildlife expert if you can tell the real puffins from the decoy this clever photographer used to enable him to get up close and personal with these quirky birds. The entertaining images show a group of puffins interacting with a puffin decoy they mistook for a potential mate near Farne Islands in Northumberland. Wildlife photographer Brian Matthews used two fake puffin models to attract the puffins and photographed them from close quarters. One came as close as three inches. Brian was able to control the fakes through a pole he attached to them. He would make them dive and splash around in the water to make them more enticing to the birds. “I spend around three to four hours in the water, with the help of the decoy that piqued the puffins' curiosity, the birds in the water eventually surrounded me,” he told mediadrumworld.com. “The puffins came to check the fakes out to see if they were potential mates. At one time, there were almost a thousand birds around me. “When they gathered around me, I stayed as still as possible so as not to spook them. As seen in the pictures, only my head and camera were out of the water. “It took a long time to plan these shots (over a year), and once we made it work and got these new images of one of the most photographed birds in the world, we felt thrilled and relieved. “It was amazing to spend time with these wild, funny-looking birds in their natural habitat before they leave for the season.” ENDs
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captionAll ready for the photoshoot UK YOU ARE a British wildlife expert if you can tell the real puffins from the decoy this clever photographer used to enable him to get up close and personal with these quirky birds. The entertaining images show a group of puffins interacting with a puffin decoy they mistook for a potential mate near Farne Islands in Northumberland. Wildlife photographer Brian Matthews used two fake puffin models to attract the puffins and photographed them from close quarters. One came as close as three inches. Brian was able to control the fakes through a pole he attached to them. He would make them dive and splash around in the water to make them more enticing to the birds. “I spend around three to four hours in the water, with the help of the decoy that piqued the puffins' curiosity, the birds in the water eventually surrounded me,” he told mediadrumworld.com. “The puffins came to check the fakes out to see if they were potential mates. At one time, there were almost a thousand birds around me. “When they gathered around me, I stayed as still as possible so as not to spook them. As seen in the pictures, only my head and camera were out of the water. “It took a long time to plan these shots (over a year), and once we made it work and got these new images of one of the most photographed birds in the world, we felt thrilled and relieved. “It was amazing to spend time with these wild, funny-looking birds in their natural habitat before they leave for the season.” ENDs
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captionSetting up the puffin honey trap UK YOU ARE a British wildlife expert if you can tell the real puffins from the decoy this clever photographer used to enable him to get up close and personal with these quirky birds. The entertaining images show a group of puffins interacting with a puffin decoy they mistook for a potential mate near Farne Islands in Northumberland. Wildlife photographer Brian Matthews used two fake puffin models to attract the puffins and photographed them from close quarters. One came as close as three inches. Brian was able to control the fakes through a pole he attached to them. He would make them dive and splash around in the water to make them more enticing to the birds. “I spend around three to four hours in the water, with the help of the decoy that piqued the puffins' curiosity, the birds in the water eventually surrounded me,” he told mediadrumworld.com. “The puffins came to check the fakes out to see if they were potential mates. At one time, there were almost a thousand birds around me. “When they gathered around me, I stayed as still as possible so as not to spook them. As seen in the pictures, only my head and camera were out of the water. “It took a long time to plan these shots (over a year), and once we made it work and got these new images of one of the most photographed birds in the world, we felt thrilled and relieved. “It was amazing to spend time with these wild, funny-looking birds in their natural habitat before they leave for the season.” ENDs
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captionPick the real one UK YOU ARE a British wildlife expert if you can tell the real puffins from the decoy this clever photographer used to enable him to get up close and personal with these quirky birds. The entertaining images show a group of puffins interacting with a puffin decoy they mistook for a potential mate near Farne Islands in Northumberland. Wildlife photographer Brian Matthews used two fake puffin models to attract the puffins and photographed them from close quarters. One came as close as three inches. Brian was able to control the fakes through a pole he attached to them. He would make them dive and splash around in the water to make them more enticing to the birds. “I spend around three to four hours in the water, with the help of the decoy that piqued the puffins' curiosity, the birds in the water eventually surrounded me,” he told mediadrumworld.com. “The puffins came to check the fakes out to see if they were potential mates. At one time, there were almost a thousand birds around me. “When they gathered around me, I stayed as still as possible so as not to spook them. As seen in the pictures, only my head and camera were out of the water. “It took a long time to plan these shots (over a year), and once we made it work and got these new images of one of the most photographed birds in the world, we felt thrilled and relieved. “It was amazing to spend time with these wild, funny-looking birds in their natural habitat before they leave for the season.” ENDs
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captionFloating bird UK YOU ARE a British wildlife expert if you can tell the real puffins from the decoy this clever photographer used to enable him to get up close and personal with these quirky birds. The entertaining images show a group of puffins interacting with a puffin decoy they mistook for a potential mate near Farne Islands in Northumberland. Wildlife photographer Brian Matthews used two fake puffin models to attract the puffins and photographed them from close quarters. One came as close as three inches. Brian was able to control the fakes through a pole he attached to them. He would make them dive and splash around in the water to make them more enticing to the birds. “I spend around three to four hours in the water, with the help of the decoy that piqued the puffins' curiosity, the birds in the water eventually surrounded me,” he told mediadrumworld.com. “The puffins came to check the fakes out to see if they were potential mates. At one time, there were almost a thousand birds around me. “When they gathered around me, I stayed as still as possible so as not to spook them. As seen in the pictures, only my head and camera were out of the water. “It took a long time to plan these shots (over a year), and once we made it work and got these new images of one of the most photographed birds in the world, we felt thrilled and relieved. “It was amazing to spend time with these wild, funny-looking birds in their natural habitat before they leave for the season.” ENDs
