Miles O’Brien:
To further entice them, they deployed decoys, mirrors, and amplified recordings of puffins. It still took four years for the first adult puffin to return and another four years before nesting pairs began breeding here.
Fifty years later, hundreds of puffins take a summer break from life at sea to mate and rear their chicks on Eastern Egg. No longer any need for Canadian imports. I sat in a blind with Steve and Don, a front-row seat to a spectacular performance as puffin parents arrived with beaks full of fish for their hungry chicks.
But each delivery came with risk. With every landing, they had to dodge their nemeses, the ever watchful laughing gulls, eager to snatch their catch before it reached the nest.
