Literate herring, this way.

Aurora at Brough of Birsay, the bright light is the lighthouse... And looking the other way, towards Northside Aurora from ou...

Massive tramp around after the rain had stopped, this eventually involved going to the top of The Kame  in pursuit of hovering buzzards, whi...

22 Woodpigeons on Thursday was a good total and there were three Collared Doves the same day. The Rooks are continuing to show lots of inter...

Having completed most of my WeBS I went east on Friday afternoon for a poke around Tankerness. Dipped the Green-winged Teal but did manage t...

Close to death yesterday but having got through the morning I started to perk up later on today. From nasty wet sleet driven on a strongish ...

I don't believe I've ever seen such a Pochard flock. Loch of Bosquoy has held flocks of more than 800 in the past but this afternoon...

In the end it was second place in the 1 mile FootIt challenge but all in all I thought a pretty good effort. Having had a target of 58 last ...

The Waxwing, presumably the same, reappeared briefly early afternoon but otherwise the garden was quiet. A brief walk at Palace was ...

The cunning plan worked.....

I really thought that was it for FootIt but this afternoon there was a Waxwing in the garden, I didn't see it but there is every hope fo...

The last weekend... for FootIt and being on the leader board I had to make a massive effort. However, first of all there was the Big Garden ...

I've not found a decent bird since October 2012, well I have but not any sort of records committee thing and that was the last time I ad...