East coast to West coast

Chasing shadows (and birds)

#Papay
#islandwalks
#Orkney

From the land of ice to the land of gales.

Barnacle geese fresh in this morning..

From Svalbard?

#Papay
#Orkney

The island has shifted into Winter palette, almost overnight.
in light of no trees, to speak of.
The sea signals the change.

South Wick and North wick today.

#Papay #Orkney

Helen’s #BirdOfTheDay theme today via Atlantic Birding is:

#ShoreBirds; any bird on the shore.

Four from the Papay shore..

Horse gok - Snipe
Knot
Purple sandpiper
Sanderling

#Papay
#Orkney

@atlanticbirding.bsky.social
has given us #LookingDown for #BirdOfTheDay.

A juvenile Pickie on a stab.

#Papay
#Orkney
#fencesitters
#arcticterns

The full feather spectrum of brown, a flying autumn forest floor.
In Papay.

Wryneck.

Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #Brown, any bird with Brown in its plumage.

#Papay
#Orkney
#birdmoths

No planes or boats to Papay today, but the Gannets were in fine form, fun to watch them from the New pier..

#Papay
#Orkney

As today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #EFG

I will go with a double G...

Glaucous gull..

#Papay
#orkney
#icebirds

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

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

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

Solan goose.

With a Bewing backdrop.

#Papay
#Orkney

For the #BirdOfTheDay theme today of #TheDivers, photos of any diving bird, courtesy of @helenbennett.bsky.social
.

Pink-footed geese.

An inverted V

Over Holland

Today

#Papay
#Orkney

Aerial reconnaissance over Egilsay today. The 12th century kirk of St Magnus from behind the wheel of an islander.

#Papay
#stmagnus
#Orkney

An Autumn Hen harrier.

Thermal.

#Papay
#Orkney

Hen harrier.
Hovering.

Links of Moclett today.

#Papay
#Orkney
#henharrier

Could be a bit of both of today's themes..

Today’s #BirdOfTheDay theme is:

#Mouthful; a bird with anything in its beak

Alt is #Black plumage.

#Papay
#aakward
#Orkney

A recent reconnaissance survey of the Holm of Papay, all the geos, the Holmie sheep and neolithic burial cairns in one go..

An island off an island.

#Papay
#Orkney
#holmsweetholm