Literate herring, this way.

Offspring required taking to meet friends in kirkwall etc so an excuse for a toodle east. The lack of an extended day did limit things somew...

A huge flock of 817 Pochard counted yesterday on Loch of Harray by the Merkister was added to today by a flock of 387 Twite at nearby Russla...

Here's a year end picture. Text to follow later maybe.... Warbeth Beach, Stromness, it was barely possibe to make any headway into ...

Having failed to see the glossy one yesterday, I now suspect it was hiding behind the wall of the field, I nipped along there first(ish) thi...

The Twitch - I didn't get there that early, it had been light for a while, but I was still the third person there. See the other two ...

Goose counting day again so I headed over to the East Mainland to my goosey spot. Nearly 4700 Greylags counted and a rather low number of Pi...

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 ...