E - Eider Duck
G - Gannet
F - Fulmer
All photographed 22nd June 2025 on the Brough of Birsay, a small island off the NW coast of Mainland, Orkney. (4th Photo).
E - Eider Duck
G - Gannet
F - Fulmer
All photographed 22nd June 2025 on the Brough of Birsay, a small island off the NW coast of Mainland, Orkney. (4th Photo).
I live not too far away from Twatt, Birsay too.
Makes you wish you were Norwegian, I tells ya.
I live not too far away from Twatt, Birsay too.
Makes you wish you were Norwegian, I tells ya.
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By Bernie Bell. Pics. by B&M Bell We visited the Barony Mill in 2018 https://theorkneynews.scot/2018/03/09/didnt-we-have-a-loverly-time-the-day-we-went-to-birsay/ and were glad we did so, but for some reason haven’t been back since. ...
By Bernie Bell. Pics. by B&M Bell We visited the Barony Mill in 2018 https://theorkneynews.scot/2018/03/09/didnt-we-have-a-loverly-time-the-day-we-went-to-birsay/ and were glad we did so, but for some reason haven’t been back since. ...
From the Birsay shore, like the edge of a planet,
And the lifeboat plunge through the Pentland Firth
To a cosmic tide with the men that man it.
—Robert Rendall, “Angle of Vision”
from The Edinburgh Book of Twentieth-Century Scottish Poetry (EUP, 2005)
#RNLI #poem
Female Common Eider Ducks spend 25-28 days incubating their eggs without leaving the nest.
This lady was nesting peacefully on the other side of a wire fence, close to a busy path.
Brough of Birsay, Orkney (June 2025).
Female Common Eider Ducks spend 25-28 days incubating their eggs without leaving the nest.
This lady was nesting peacefully on the other side of a wire fence, close to a busy path.
Brough of Birsay, Orkney (June 2025).
Osprey
Orkney
Birsay, Mainland
17:41
one flew over campsite
Osprey
Orkney
Birsay, Mainland
17:41
one flew over campsite
My photo 2015.
My photo 2015.