Literate herring, this way.

Here's some pix, not the greatest but.... Also managed to stumble upon an Iceland Gull and a tromp down the island...

...and seeing great birds. My area is north and east of Kirkwall and Tankerness. Really like birding on Tankerness, I should do it more ofte...

 Water bubbling up into the field  At the end of our track, a boat might be handy A very useful bridge, the ditch, our track ...

From behind our house tonight, excellent!!!

Louise phoned me at work and then mentioned she'd just seen a rather interesting looking wheatear down by our ponies. I asked her to nip...

My holiday has involved a fair bit of flogging the patches, initially for little return. A family holiday couple of days to North Ronaldsay ...

An arival overnight found the garden still bouncing with thrushes, an increase in Brambling and at least 4 (if not more) Blackcaps. Much of ...

Well I meant to post, but the week has gone by in a bit of a blur, and somehow I never got around to it. I can't remember much about it ...

The elusive Lesser Whitethroat in the garden, that slightly concerned me having got silhouette and flight views on Friday morning gave itsel...

Whilst i was in work, just down the road, a South Ron birder trespassed on the patch and recorded Golden Eagle over the house. Tempted to be...

    Very autumn feel to the day today. Yesterday's Robins were still present in the garden but the Dunnocks had gone missing, only o...

There were 60 or more likely 80 on The Shunan this morning, depending whether I double counted a flock of 20. At the roost this evening thou...