Literate herring, this way.

Here's the start A completely brilliant experience, enhanced by all the enthusiasm of everyone at work. The cloud strangely h...

Best bird was a Water Rail in a garden at Palace, a patch tick for my coastal spot, I failed to photograph it though, so here's a pictur...

Not on The Shunan unfortunately (where there were 91 Black-headed Gulls, 2 pair of Shoveler and a pair of Pintail) but at The Loons. Tha...

Yesterday I'd just got to work when Louise phoned to say she'd seen a raptor by the Shunan, I'd just been watching a Peregrine d...

A great day out, good company, great birds. Managing to get the Blue-winged Teal on the list early on was a good move, it gave excellent v...

Bit of a buzz around today in not especially good weather led to me not seeing the Blue-winged Teal, adding Short-eared Owl for the year to ...

Blue-winged Teal is still on The Shunan and managed to relocate the Green-winged Teal on Loch of Skaill, somehow avoiding the Ring-necked Du...

Yesterday was the first calm day this year that I've been able to go birding so down to Loch of Harray as Long-tailed Duck was still req...

Howaback produced Fulmar and Red-breasted Merganser for the Patchwork list today.  This is the burn at Howaback Great birding at ...

Nice surprise this afternoon. Having delivered youngest daughter to a friend's I went on to Loch of Skaill, always a place for lots of b...

Horrible flu and ghastly weather on Saturday so very little birding done. Weather was better today and the flu had abated somewhat, but Loui...

I rarely go out without the scope but yesterday afternoon I was feeling lazy, and it was windy so keeping it still here would be a challenge...