Literate herring, this way.

Almost no birding yesterday but today once the rain cleared I was out and about.on foot again. A hunt for Woodcock again and Song Thrush fai...

"More lights are possible on Jan. 23th when a negative-polarity solar wind stream is expected to hit Earth's magnetic field. NOAA f...

Another FootIt outing, mostly to try to see the putative Lesser Scaup again and try to nail it. However the hound had other ideas and disapp...

Scooted down to Loch of Bosquoy with the canine assistant and found conditions to be pretty reasonable, the wind dropped and viewing conditi...

There's no birding for me here during the week as its too dark. I go to work in the dark and return after the gloaming. Thursday was a b...

 A surprise under the feeders on Saturday morning Woodpigeon has not been present here since the end of October and last year the fir...

Yesterday was spent tramping around the home patch. It was a beautiful, sunny calm day, until evening when it rained. Ideal for searching th...

This year I will be finding rare birds in Harray, at Palace, on The Brough and on North Ronaldsay and Sanday. This year's ambition bir...

Birsay Bay on the evening 29th A trip east to see the Lesser Scaup on Ayre's Loch. Not ideal conditions and it took two hours or so...

I'm currently very interested in crows and the relationship between Carrion and Hoodie here on Orkney. Tipped off that there are some in...

Christmas Eve produced murder on the front lawn as a superb Sproghawk ripped a Blackbird to bits in the gloaming. Ellen spotted a Waxwing on...

I've barely stepped outside the door today, horrible south-easterly force 6-7 and increasing with rain, dark and nasty. I managed to fil...