A stone #Papay stile today for @judithjesch.bsky.social & @lakesstiles.bsky.social between Scarra Ber (ON skarfr 'shag' & 'rock') & The Sneck, perhaps Scots 'latch of a door or gate' in the sense of closing off the hill dyke here to prevent stock from crossing at low tide #Orkney #PlaceNames

Passing through.
And.
Going over.

#northernwheater in bound from Greenland

#primulascotica the last of the last flowering.

#Papay
#Orkney
#islandautumn

THE HIGH ISLAND - 'The High Island is spell-binding. Atmospheric, compulsive and utterly gripping, Anderson is on fire' — Helen Fields, international bestselling author of the DCI Callanach series
https://bit.ly/4pzBB4H #TheHighIsland #LinAnderson #Orkney #CrimeFiction

THE HIGH ISLAND - 'The sense of place is strong and the plot is as intriguing as ever – in The High Island Lin Anderson has worked her particular magic once more' — Alexander McCall Smith
https://bit.ly/4pzBB4H #TheHighIsland #LinAnderson #Orkney

Old Tour #Scotland #Ancestry Travel Visit #Genealogy #Scottish Family #History Blog #photography of a young fisherman on the #Fair #Isle. An island in northern Scotland, lying around halfway between mainland #Shetland and the #Orkney #Islands tour-scotland-photographs.blogspot.com/2015/07/old-...

Moonlight and the Hamnavoe

#Stromness #HarvestMoon #Orkney

#Orkney 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 📷 😍

A lost and found seabird.

The Great auk, revealed.

For today’s #BirdOfTheDay theme is:

#Seabirds; any bird found at sea or the coast.

#Papay
#Orkney
#Greatauk

THE HIGH ISLAND - 'The sense of place is strong and the plot is as intriguing as ever – in The High Island Lin Anderson has worked her particular magic once more' — Alexander McCall Smith
https://bit.ly/4pzBB4H #TheHighIsland #LinAnderson #Orkney

The famous Neolithic ‘dresser’ from House One at Skara Brae on Orkney. 📸 My own. #StoneworkSunday #Prehistory #SkaraBrae #Orkney

THE HIGH ISLAND - 'The High Island is spell-binding. Atmospheric, compulsive and utterly gripping, Anderson is on fire' — Helen Fields, international bestselling author of the DCI Callanach series
https://bit.ly/4pzBB4H #TheHighIsland #LinAnderson #Orkney #CrimeFiction

On this day #OrkneyBirding ... Black-throated Thrush is the first for #Orkney with seven subsequent records, the most recent in 2025. Surprisingly, nearly half of the county's 21 Melodious Warblers have been away from North Ronaldsay.
#rarebirds

A breezy, tropical autumn day on South Wick today.
#papay
#orkney

Though the letter was sent five years before the Great Fire of London, it was sent very close to where the fire later started. Peter Winchester captained several ships at the time and the letter was sent to him from Thomas Buchanan who lived on the island of Shapinsay, #Orkney.