Literate herring, this way.

Not on the patch unfortunately. Thanks to JB for coming to work to alert me the four dots were just up the road. Pix posted tomorrow (better...

Not quite sure what this is although will admit to being lazy and not yet consulted the books, photographs etc. I find these tricky, but the...

Early today sunspots AR2045 and AR 2046 blasted out an X rated solar flare.... in the wrong direction so no aurora folks. The first, and v...

It was sunny all day.  Rousay from Evie today WeBS first of all then sowed the bird crop patch and then out to Evie for a walk with o...

Scrutinising the Tuftie flock at Howaback this evening along with the 8 Scaup there was a female Common Scoter. Common Scoter is an uncommon...

Coming home from work this evening, bit knackered to be honest and gave The Shunan a good scan. Checked the waders, there's the Ruff sti...

Well it could have been something else couldn't it? Find a BB for nil Patchwork points, because it's a species I've already foun...

This is proving to be a really good week with the slightly possible Lapland Buntings of Tuesday afternoon converted into a certainty this mo...

A Ruff again on The Shunan with a smart near full sum plum Blackwit. Mid-evening the first Bonxie of the year flew through. Main e...

I'd intended to go to Palace early on but was a bit slow getting my act together and so went local instead, good decision. Heading down ...

A brief trip away Soooth, not too far, just to Loch Ness, need to get Nessie on my pan species list.... dipped on Nessie but ticked this: ...

Brief seawatch from Yesnaby this morn produced a single Blue Fulmar, a single dark morph, so a pale one compared to the deep dds. Otherwise ...