Literate herring, this way.

I went back and had another look at the bird this afternoon. There are now many more photographs available to view as well (on Ork...

There has been some debate about this bird. I've had a look at the photos of Red-tailed/Persian and Red-rumped on BirdGuides...

  Now that was a surprise. Birding around the garden this morning, a nice male Blackcap was almost the first bird I saw. The next bird wa...

Wednesday morning's seawatch was a bit of a disappointment all the same there were a few skuas and a good passage of Kittiwakes, 150 ...

The west-nor'west wind doth blow so a seawatching I shall go. Not perfect conditions and I couldn't manage this morn due to the ne...

Nice! Nice, nice! Oh I do so love Yellow-browed Warblers especially when I'm hearing and then watching one from our garden. Scrutiny of ...

Thanks to AL for the prompt text, ten minutes later I was watching a nice drake American Wigeon on Loch of Harray. It was at a bit of range ...

Interesting things Blackbirds. At the moment there are a lot of those matt black ones around with dull black bills. I presume these are S...

The temperature has dropped recently, good job the heating engineer is here putting in the new system, we've not had a working boiler fo...

I'd not been able to go for the Boney on Thursday but a clear diary on Friday afternoon meant I could leave shortly after four. Arriving...

I was a bit puffed out to be honest and keen to improve the garden list I spent a lot of time mooching around the Sycamores and the willows ...

   Some of yesterday's Pinkies (71 in two flocks) The day was spent between home and Birsay. A day that was supposed to have rain ...