Literate herring, this way.

 Sea on Saturday at Point of Buckquoy, Birsay The wind was up so I went for an hour's watch at Birsay on Saturday at midday, a 1cy...

Yeserday I went to Costa to try to see the putative Hume's Warbler but without much luck. However, there were a lot of Twite there, mayb...

At home this morning I nearly trod on a Woodcock that was hiding in the back bushes. There were plenty of Chaffinch, probably 12 and at leas...

 Photos courtesy Morris Rendall Photos courtesy Morris Rendall This is the bird that it has been argued is a 2CY Iceland Gull. To...

Strange things are happening in gull world. Back in October I was rather chuffed to find three different white-winged gulls in four days. I ...

That's a lot of geese. In the end I counted 5,825 Greylags and about 80 Pink-feet. Loch of Tankerness was a bit of a challenge tho...

I wandered out fairly early on a beautiful still, sunny day. A male Merlin was terrorising The Shunan amd environs. I elected not to go OBP ...

Folk were obviously far too polite. Nobody mentioned I was so, so wrong about ageing the bird.... Birds like this are very educative, I now...

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 ...