There have been six to eight hundred Pink foots grazing below the house today. Every so often a Hen harrier or Peregrine would have them all up, circle for a bit and back down. They didnt seem to keen to move on, and who can blame them it probably was a long enough flight to get here.
It was cool as any way!!
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BIRDING..STARS..STONES..SHORE
I hope you enjoy reading my blog. These are just every day tales of birding and related Orkney stuff. With a bit of luck I hope to give a bit of a glimpse into life in the northern isles, I am not what you might call an expert birder. I am quite keen though and am lucky enough to live in a great place that is stuffed full of outstanding history and brimming with natural history. With it’s abundant and diverse flora and fauna on land and sea and great birds that go on year round these islands are a treasure trove of delights. So if you can manage to drag your self’s past my poor grammar hopefully I might give you a small taste of the feast that is living in Orkney..
My new from the house n garden list
- Barnacle goose
- Black Headed Gull
- Blackbird
- Blackcap
- Bonxie
- Carrion Crow
- Collared dove
- Common Gull
- Cormarant
- Corncrake
- Curlew
- Dunnock
- Goldcrest
- Golden plover
- Goldeneye
- Greater Blackbacked Gull
- Greenfinch
- Greylag Goose
- Hen harrier
- Heron
- Herring Gull
- Hoodie
- House martin
- Lesser Blacked Gull
- Linnet
- Long tailed skua
- Meadow pipit
- Oystercatcher
- Pied Wagtail
- Pinkfooted Goose
- Raven
- Reed bunting
- Shellduck
- Short Eared Owl
- Siskin
- Skylark
- Slavonian Greeb
- Snipe
- Song Thrush
- Sparrowhawk
- Starling
- Swallow
- Tuffted Duck
- Twite
- Waxwing
- Wheatear
- Whimbrel
- Widgeon
- Willow warbler
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