Commenting on when the puffin was found, Rummery said: “It was pretty much exhausted, so had a couple of months in the care of a wonderful lady called Caron, and then we were contacted to see if it would be possible to bring the bird over for release.
“The puffins have started to return for the season, so it seemed like a good opportunity to release it when there were other birds present as well,” she said.
Last month, the RSPB said storms and bad weather could have caused the deaths of dozens of puffins washed up on beaches in nort-east England.
Rummery said: “With recent storms there has been a lot of puffins washing up, so it’s good this one was found and rehabilitated and we could reintroduce it back into a colony and into the wild for it to find its own way.”
According to the RSPB, puffins spend the winter months out at sea before returning to nest in burrows.
Bempton is home to the UK’s largest mainland seabird colony, with more than 500,000 birds, including about 3,000 puffins.