Literate herring, this way.

Having grabbed some food I decided to head for The Loons for the last hour on Monday evening. Good decision. I was interested to see if the ...

Arrived at Marwick Bay at 6:00 to a birdless sea (relatively speaking). Calm, W 1-2. Scanned about, mmm interesting, first time I've bee...

Hopefully to be remedied shortly ... technical problems.

Went to the Shunan yesterday evening, 7 Blackwits which flew off and a likely Wood Sand (not included in the log) that I heard briefly. Als...

Seawatching from Birsay, not too early this morning, produced Fulmars going west (then south) at 1,700 an hour. Bonxies were mostly cruisi...

Having enjoyed a couple of hours at Marwick Bay, Manx, Knot, Sanderling, Dunlin, Southerly moving Bonx I felt the need for a beer. A certain...

Went up to Whitaloo Point yesterday evening to have a mooch about, then drove down to The Brough. I'm still trying to figure out the sea...

It blew from the north yesterday late afternoon so my thinking, based on Yorkshire experience, was to go seawatching this morning, that migh...

So I couldn't find the Pec Sand, 3 attempts; couldn't find the 2 barred xbills, 20 minutes too late; missed the Snow Goose and too ...

The earlier post for today, Deerness, refers to yesterday as the enail refused to work until this evening, until I'd rebooted the BBerry...

Nipped down to Deerness after a meeting in Kirkwall this afternoon. Sandside Bay held a small group of adult and juvenile Arctic Terns. Adul...

This film was on BBC2 the other evening. Years ago BBC2 and Channel 4 used to show good numbers of non-English language movies but these day...