Collecting puffins
Lundy Island lies in the entrance to the Bristol Channel off the northwest coast of Devon and has been in National Trust inalienable ownership since 1969. The Island is financed, administered and maintained by the Landmark Trust. A small granite outcrop, it is merely 3½ miles long and ½ mile wide, and is particularly noted for its flora, two lighthouses and colourful birdlife.
The human population is a hardy group of about forty who share their domain with numerous puffins, guillemots, razorbills, and kittiwakes. These birds make their pilgrimage to the safe haven each year, to build their nests.
Throughout the world birds of all varieties regularly appear on postage stamps, from the USA’s duck stamps to colourful parrots that flutter onto more exotic philatelic offerings. But there can be few feathered friends which, as well as
