Lovely walk round Glimps Holm last night - Common, Herring & 2 GBB Gulls, Eiders, Tystie, Curlews, 2 pairs Mute Swans, a Great Northern Diver and 70 Long...
A flock of 87 Pinkfeet dropped into the field below the house this morning. Hen Harrier over the house, a pair of Robins in the wood and my first bumblebee of...
Red-throated diver and long-tailed duck drake in summer plumage off he pier this evening. Megan - funny your account of the raven chasing fulmars. Two years...
A fine male ruddy duck has returned to Mill Dam Shapinsay today. They have not bred here since 2006 as no females have turned up. Lapwing also behaving like it...
Pinkfeet are on the move. A flock of about 450 in a field east side of Shapinsay today. I can't recall a flock anywhere near this size on the ground in...
40 Long Tailed Ducks 40 Eiders at sea & about 14 on rocks 4 pairs Goldeneyes 2 Dabchicks (Burray side) coming into summer plummage Slavonian Grebes at Echna...
Forgot to mention this earlier, my folks walked round Rerwick Head and down to Long Geo yesterday and saw Ravens knocking Fulmars off their ledges and harrying...
Great views of the Hawfinch earlier today - thanks again, Pauline. Also four Pale-bellied Brent Geese (two ads., two first-winters - perhaps a family group),...
Just a quick reminder that Tim Woottons illustrations on E- bay now have less than 24 hours to go before they are sold. Some are still only 99p - a shame if...
No sign of this bird all morning and I thought she'd moved on. However she's just this minute made her appearance in our back garden at Sunnybank. Pauline...
Hi Paul whats the score with the Orkney nature web site. Have you taken it any further? Was there some one else thinking of a forum based site on these boards...
This morning we had our first northward thrushes, just a few redwings, a fieldfare, songthrush and groups of meadow pipits arriving. Inshore 2 large groups...
Cock wheatear, South End Stromness this evening. Get £25 off a case of wine - http://www.tiscali.co.uk/wine ________________________________________________ ...
I'll be offline for several days folks - enjoy the spring movement. Get yer bids in for the charity drawings - you know it makes sense If ayone fails to get a...
Female Siskin appeared in the garden yesterday (Sat) afternoon and was feeding for over 3 hours on the Niger Seed feeder. She's back again this morning. This...
Daf The basic structure for the Orkney Nature forum based website has been set up and can be visited here: www.orkneynature.proboards.com I have added some...
The Lapwing with the white primaries is back by us again this year. Also several sightings of the female Hen Harrier this past week, and a couple of Pied...
pair of wrens displaying & taking nesting material into one of my large phormiums (new zealand flax). Looks like my gardening efforts have provided lots of...
A substantial flock,probably several hundred at least at Twatt Aerodrome this afternoon.I have a similar sighting noted for 4.4.08.At least 20 gwfs still at...
Hawfinch - still coming to Pauline Wilsons garden in Deerness today. John Holloway - just a reminder about his talk in The Hope at 20.00hrs Monday night at the...
Well I say 'common' but there were 5 white (NB) wagtails on Manse Bay beach this afternoon, along with 3 wheatears and several mipits. Also redwings in the...
Superb black-tailed godwit at Mill Dam Shapinsay this evening, along with three little grebe, a ruddy duck, two pairs of pintail and 1 pair of gadwall....
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