Literate herring, this way.

Louise photographed the above through the kitchen window feeding on the apples we put out. It was present for a few hours.

I managed to nip into Stromness for a few minutes late this afternoon. The light for pictures was not great but I took a few snaps. I couldn...

Louise saw three on the wall outside the kitchen window but being in the midst of a hamster RIP crisis I missed them, (she thought there wer...

Spent the middle of the day toodling around Deerness and South Ron with JB. 9 Black-throats in Bay of Sandoyne were neat. South Ron was free...

Well, I had to leave Orkney on the morning of the fall didn't I? On Saturday, 9th the garden was full of Redwing, about 300 and Bramblin...

Not much birding too much work! But there are still Brambling about, 7 or so this morning in the garden.

I should post a pic of Y-bW here of course but ... here's a small bit of the massive Goldie flock, at least 3,500. After a considerable ...

Not a Y-bW (working in Kirkwall earlier this week) I've been birding east and south a bit recently and this morning decided that a trip ...

Loch of Bosquoy An unstreaked Accro in a garden by the loch caused excitement this morn. Unfortunately no amount of pishing and ticking woul...

Marwick slabs A brief seawatch yesterday (Saturday) produced nothing despite a fresh northerly. 12 Laps on the Birsay Links, a Barwit and, y...

The last time I saw a Buff-breased Sand was on a Northumberland beach some 22 or 23 years ago. Yesterday's was a bit hard to see and I o...

Popped along to Loch of Skaill after work. There are still two Little Stints there and a Greenshank. I thought these Dunlin were quite inte...