Literate herring, this way.

Fieldfare, small numbers scattered widely currently Went out fairly early for a tootle round in the snow and when I got back the family had ...

One of the cats spent all night (apparently) staring at a couple of our still packed boxes. It wasn't too much of a surprise then to fin...

A field trip with small people got me two drake Pintail on Loch of Stenness. Also on offer were two Slavonian Grebes and a Little Grebe near...

Two runs out for the Robinson in the last few days, a 6 - 11.30 and a 7.30 - 1.00 but to no avail, no moths caught.

Twite - part of the large flocks at Costa The corvid roost in the neighbouring sycamores was huge yesterday evening. A vast flock came in fr...

Not much to report except the Ravens displaying over our garden (by The Shunan) for an hour or so this morning, I counted 10 at one time but...

Today was a no birding day due to party business - rescheduled children's party to deliver. Managed to record all of 8 species of bird i...

Managed to get a car to the house this evening. The route up from the main road is still unsafe but coming down from the top was ok, the ...

Brown Hare tracks in the snow, Harray Having spent most of the morning doing other things and then eating lunch in the garden, its tropical ...

Went to Birsay today to try to find the dead cetacean, rumoured to be a Minke Whale. We walked all the way along to the end of the Links bea...

It was blowing by the PDC so I didn't look to carefully, not very many gulls about in any case. Getting the shopping from the car is sti...

The Dunnock have either vacated the garden or are playing elusive. No sign of the Stonechats either. Whilst Ellen was at a birthday party we...