Literate herring, this way.

The Friday evening snowfall prevented me going to the Rory McLeod gig, serious blizzard early evening followed up by two more. Musically I w...

Local opinion is that these birds are non-tooting Northern Bullfinch, apparently pileata has never been recorded with any certainty in Orkne...

The Bullfinch flock in Finstown is growing and having seen a pic of one of their number I think there is a possibility they may be of the no...

One of the two, right hand bird Two first winters were on the low tide rocks and it was a very low tide, off the Birsay Links beach. Both f...

View Loch of Harray Grey Plover Birsay Purple Sandpipers, Birsay Common Redpolls, West Mainland A day touring around West Mainland produced ...

The web indicates that the aurora should be showing tonight, the cloud indicates that it might not.

Nice view of a Waxwing on Friday afternoon from a colleague's office. Meeting paused; Waxwing admired; meeting continued. One of my week...

The Auroura showed pretty well this evening at about 10.50 in the northern sky. Unfortunately I hadn't practised any night photography, ...

Saw at least 25 Great Northerns today, many in the remnants of summer plumage. These were all in the Rerwick Head area, a nice distraction f...

However, these excellent Great Northerns were lazing about by No1 Barrier as we were rushing, late to the seal pup event on South Ron' ....

...and another Waxwing in the garden on Tuesday morning, briefly feeding on rose hips on a climbing rose on the house.

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