Photo of penguin on Folkestone beach goes viral on Facebook
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Updated: 16:19, 08 January 2021
The Folkestone Penguin is a social media sensation you may not have been expecting in 2021.
But while temperatures have dived in recent days the black and white bird snapped perched on pebbles on the Kent coast was not what it appeared to be.
The post attracted nearly 1,000 comments this morning Picture: Haico Van Der Steen
It was photographed on Folkestone Beach on Wednesday and appeared on the Facebook page of pets specialist Donna Nettleship.
She told KentOnline the seabird was in fact a guillemot and had been taken to be checked by a veterinary surgery in Lympne.