Literate herring, this way.

Back at work has curtailed my activities somewhat and we've had house guests for the last four nights too. The Sunday seawatch was reall...

A Bonxie has been hanging out on The Shunan feeding on a goose carcass. This is not altogether good news as every time it flies almost all t...

The adrenalin was going for a bit on Sunday afternoon when a wader with long yellow legs and lacking a supercilium with a straight bill was...

Wood Sandpiper on The Shunan when I returned from work was a nice surprise, I could see it from the garden too, very nice. Also two Greensha...

I'm not sure what this is but if it is either large or Feathered Ranunculus or Black Banded it would be a first for Orkney. I'm prob...

Blackwits leaving to the east So far Greenshank, Spotted Redshank and 5 Blackwits on the Shunan with a new max of 24 Redshank. By afternoon ...

Yesterday's good weather initiated a trip to Hoy. The main mission was to visit the Berriedale Wood, the most northerly natural woodland...

Yesterday began with a pile of moths and a dark phase Arctic Skua low through the garden. The previous evening whilst fetling the moth trap ...

Shark, in Birsay Bay was the highlight of the day. It cruised around he surface feeding for the whole time we were there, sometime quite cl...

...when the measurements in the instructions are incorrect. However, the supposedly finished foundations were fixed by late afternoon, hopef...

I finally finished the foundations to the greenhouse today, well hopefully anyway. Getting the levels right has been a bit of a challenge, h...

Car needed to go to the garage and as we were going to the airport I set off first to make the garage type arrangements; wrong, bad, naff th...