Literate herring, this way.

Well it blew, and is still blowing but not enough, although it's stronger now, and still getting into the north, maybe it will but maybe...

Returning from work a stop at The Shunan turned into a more major effort as Blackwits were coming and going continuously with a gathering of...

Another freshwater wader on the beach with a Green Sand calling and eventually alighting briefly on The Links beach before towering high and...

Loads of waders at Palace at the moment, more than I've seen beofre. Dunlin were up to 119 today and Ringed Plover 156. So it wasn't...

From Pt of Buckquoy 4.5 hours from 08:25 Fulmar - 11,394 W; quite a few east too in the last hour or so. Blue Fulmar 2W (a dark morph and ...

On 13th a juv Hobby decided to spend the middle of the day roaring about the garden and environs. Heard initially from indoors whilst I was ...

A brief seawatch of an hour from Brough of Birsay produced a single close Sooty going west this evening. Waders still have chicks shock. O...

A single on 6th and two today with five Blackwits on Tuesday and three today. Large numbers of lapwing around at the moment too.

The day we went to Hoy and went up Ward Hill in 2013, just refound the photos. The most extraordinary thing were these two Horntails on the ...

Went back to have another look yesterday and hopefully hear the calls but the birds didn't show, last seen 9am but heard at lunchtime. H...

First seawatch of the autumn today as the wind was at least in the right quarter for once. Then over to The Brough and watched some more sur...

230 Curlew at Loch of Bosquoy and this evening 20 Dunlin, a Knot, three Sanderling and a Whimbrel on the Links Beach at Palace. Two broods...