{"id":4629,"date":"2026-06-03T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-03T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scottshawphotography.com\/?p=4629"},"modified":"2026-05-11T11:20:04","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T15:20:04","slug":"strange-birds-on-the-rocky-island","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scottshawphotography.com\/?p=4629","title":{"rendered":"Strange Birds On The Rocky Island"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/scottshawphotography.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Puffin-Pair.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"489\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/scottshawphotography.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Puffin-Pair-489x1024.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4604\" srcset=\"https:\/\/scottshawphotography.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Puffin-Pair-489x1024.png 489w, https:\/\/scottshawphotography.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Puffin-Pair-143x300.png 143w, https:\/\/scottshawphotography.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Puffin-Pair.png 573w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 489px) 100vw, 489px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Nikon Z6 II, 1\/200 sec, f\/9.0, 500mm, ISO 400<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Here is a pair of puffins on Puffins Island near Elliston Newfoundland.  Be advised that the viewing area is pretty far away, so binoculars and a long lens are required to really see the puffins.  As a matter of fact, I brought along my 200-500mm lens just for this location.  It is the only time during the four-week roadtrip that I actually used it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Then again, you might get lucky and have a puffin land in the viewing area.  If that happens, be prepared for a scrum of photographers jostling for position.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Elliston Puffin Viewing Area: <a href=\"https:\/\/maps.app.goo.gl\/7RquCmxL2MFQcJEz7\" title=\"\">48.629602\u00b0 -53.019138\u00b0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nikon Z6 II, 1\/200 sec, f\/9.0, 500mm, ISO 400 Here is a pair of puffins&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[990],"tags":[1058,752,989,167,618,1060,753,1061],"class_list":["post-4629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newfoundland","tag-elliston","tag-image","tag-newfoundland","tag-photo","tag-photography","tag-puffin-island","tag-scott-shaw-photography","tag-viewing-area"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottshawphotography.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4629","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottshawphotography.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottshawphotography.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottshawphotography.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottshawphotography.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4629"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/scottshawphotography.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4629\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4630,"href":"https:\/\/scottshawphotography.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4629\/revisions\/4630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottshawphotography.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottshawphotography.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottshawphotography.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}