GND, Winter Moth, Queen Eider dip.

Went to look for the female King Eider from Thursday afternoon and failed. I spent a while walking the coast, checking the harbour and the PDC to no avail. At the Hatston fish cages there were about 1,000 Eider so if it's in that lot, which are a piece offshore it will not be findable. Annoyingly my phone fell out of my pocket, a trick it often does and I don't learn, and cracked the screen. Darn! (Actually, I said a bit more than that.)

Previously, walking at Brodgar this GND had been quite close on Loch of Stenness.

A bit later I took a quick wander around the garden and there was a Winter Moth on the favoured trees.

Winter Moth on the moss on the Sycamores at the back, a favoured spot of late.

Walked up the back today and photographed lichens (to identify) and Yellow Brain Fungus (badly) - a couple of pix from the walk.

Cladonia sp, not sure what the grey stuff is, Lecanora polytropa perhaps.

Forgotten which species this is annoyingly, Cladonia arbuscula perhaps - Cladonia portentosa.

From up the hill by the moor.

It was raining as we approached home.

On Sunday a birding day, mostly on foot around home. Nothing much unexpected except the Brambling with the Chaffinch flock in the garden. Four Slav Grebes distantly on Loch of Harray. The Goosander have decided to disappear.

Dunnock.

Exidia nucleata, a decent sized splodge of it this time.