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Literate herring, this way.: Xbill again (and some Orcas)
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Literate herring, this way. Living and birding in Orkney. Hoodie / Carrion Crow hybrid identification. Friday, 31 July 2015. Xbill again (and some Orcas). What was supposed to be a peaceful walk around Northside into Palace turned into a bit of a stress as the hound behaved extraordinarily badly, however, prior to this bit of a do three Orcas showed briefly off the Whalebone, long time no see. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Educationalist and birder; never grumpy. View my complete profile.
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Literate herring, this way.: July 2015
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Literate herring, this way. Living and birding in Orkney. Hoodie / Carrion Crow hybrid identification. Friday, 31 July 2015. Xbill again (and some Orcas). What was supposed to be a peaceful walk around Northside into Palace turned into a bit of a stress as the hound behaved extraordinarily badly, however, prior to this bit of a do three Orcas showed briefly off the Whalebone, long time no see. Monday, 27 July 2015. It was quite tame. Thursday, 23 July 2015. Empid sp on Marsh Cinquefoil. Eristalis nemorum...
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Literate herring, this way.: May 2015
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Literate herring, this way. Living and birding in Orkney. Hoodie / Carrion Crow hybrid identification. Sunday, 31 May 2015. Internet is beggared, something wrong locally. Hoping for an improvement shortly. In brief, a drake Garganey a week ago on The Shunan. Working away wore me out so lack of midweek activity. Iceland Gull and Cuckoo at Yesnaby yesterday. Also yesterday drove within metres of a Beeater but did not know it was there. Sunday, 17 May 2015. Pictures of yesterday evening's Siskin in a gale.
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Literate herring, this way.: June 2015
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Literate herring, this way. Living and birding in Orkney. Hoodie / Carrion Crow hybrid identification. Monday, 22 June 2015. Woke up late, well I was up at 3:30 to turn off the moth trap, it was beautiful then too, 50% clear skies, lovely clouds, should have gone and taken a picture really, but then I would have not got back to sleep and I bet I wouldn't have seen the Gull-billed Tern. Plenty of food, not sure what this fish is mind. Here's what I've written in the circumstances for the BB RC description:.
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Literate herring, this way.: April 2015
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Literate herring, this way. Living and birding in Orkney. Hoodie / Carrion Crow hybrid identification. Sunday, 26 April 2015. Pretty brilliant weekend, many thanks to JB and VB for the hospitality. A quick early post, more pictures to be posted later - the morn most likely. Just out of the airport and straight on to this. Great weather, if a tad cool. First good find was a rather distant, but nevertheless pleasing 2cy Little Gull, an uncommon species here. Loads of these guys around. Six alba wags yester...
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Literate herring, this way.: Gulls and insects
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Literate herring, this way. Living and birding in Orkney. Hoodie / Carrion Crow hybrid identification. Thursday, 23 July 2015. I'm still wading though volumes of pictures of Diptera, mostly Syrphidae but a few other things as well. I'm trying to key out this Empid (I know I could ask on UK Diptera but that would just be lazy. Empid sp on Marsh Cinquefoil. Well, skyscapes really. And it seems I can have this as E.nemorum. Eristalis nemorum and Beautiful Golden Y. Here are some waders from Birsay. Help res...
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Literate herring, this way.: Hovers
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Literate herring, this way. Living and birding in Orkney. Hoodie / Carrion Crow hybrid identification. Sunday, 14 June 2015. I've been working away for the last week and fair knackered to be honest. Didn't see much south to be honest, a couple of Osprey being the highight. Getting home, stuff to do. Did manage to get out to Palace on Saturday, but most of the waders seem to have gone. Did find this at Palace tho. Male and female of what I think is Platycheirus clypeatus. A common species in the north!
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Literate herring, this way.: February 2015
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Literate herring, this way. Living and birding in Orkney. Hoodie / Carrion Crow hybrid identification. Saturday, 28 February 2015. Bird Race warm up. 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 the Old Nisthouse patch and losing the dog (temporarily) at Marwick. Gales forecast for the morn so not the best of conditions for the 100 species mark. Sunday, 22 February 2015. Where's the Blue-winged Teal? On to Howa...
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Literate herring, this way.: Back from hols
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Literate herring, this way. Living and birding in Orkney. Hoodie / Carrion Crow hybrid identification. Tuesday, 14 July 2015. Moths and hoverflies from today and yesterday. using the Nikon. And there was a bit of drama in the greenhouse as I was hunting hovers there. Another worry was the Arctic Tern colony, have the sandeels hung on? Or will the chicks have all starved to death again? A happy outcome there I'm pleased to report with quite a few Arctics already flying and a pile of chicks at different st...
