Outside!

It is a Bank Holiday weekend, the weather is fine and dry (though temperatures are still in single figures due to windchill) and there's not been any wildlife watching to report for over a week. Sounds like a recipe to be outdoors and looking for natural wonders, what could possibly go wrong?

Well, nothing actually, until I came to upload my photos to this post and Blogger insists on putting the last ones first. Repeatedly. Hmmm, so here goes, in reverse order, we have...

One of several flocks of Curlews departing Orkney and headed northwards

A tiny (3mm) orange weevil on a fragment of Heather root

Unlucky for some...

Shags on the shore

This wee beastie dropped in on our picnic. Local experts are thinking a sawfly of some stripe

The Great Skuas (Bonxies) are back

Little Burra Geo

A Shag collecting nesting material from the shore

Brough of Deerness (left) and Keirling (right)

The Gloup

Today sees the launch of the annual Bag the Bruck litter collection, a week of beach cleans by local communities which hasn't been held for a couple of years due to the pandemic.

Presuming I can remain upright on slippery seaweed-covered boulders, there'll be more news to follow!