"The Joy of Sisk"
female Siskin (Spinus spinus) at Grimbister, #Orkney, today.
#OrkneyBirding #BirdingScotland #UKBirds #UKBirding #Birds #Wildlife #UKWildlife #Nature #Photography #birdsoftheworld #ornithology #Siskin #finch 🪶
Pink flowers bloom along the edge of the group, water below joined to the sea through an opening in the rock {copyright M. Frost}
A second offering from #Orkney #Scotland for the #BlueSkyArtShow x #BloomScrolling — an #opening to the sea — The #Gloup at #MullHead #photography
A walk along the cliffs on a bright sunny blue sky day. The view looks down onto a small inlet behind the eroded cliffs. A narrow passage allows the sea forms a stony beach covered by clear blue water. On the other side the small rocky island is a narrow section of rock joined to the mainland. On the horizon a tiny white yacht sails the calm sea.
#BlueSkyArtShow #Openings
Along the coast of #Orkney mainland peninsula #Deerness last summer. A maze of cliff erosion and inlets.
#Landscape #Photography #Coast #Rocks #Scotland
Restored walls and openings to Skara Brae settlement along the coast of Orkney {copyright M. Frost}
For #ColorADay #GreenSat x #BlueSkyArtShow, #openings as windows into history at #SkaraBrae #Orkney #photography
"Catcher Caught on Camera"
Eurasian Oystercatcher (Haematopus ostralegus) at Scapa, #Orkney.
#OrkneyBirding #BirdingScotland #UKBirds #UKBirding #Birds #Wildlife #UKWildlife #Nature #Photography #birdsoftheworld #ornithology #Oystercatcher #wader 🪶
"Ruby Two's Day"
two Redwings (Turdus iliacus) at Grimbister, #Orkney, this morning.
#OrkneyBirding #BirdingScotland #UKBirds #UKBirding #Birds #Wildlife #UKWildlife #Nature #Photography #birdsoftheworld #ornithology #Redwing 🪶
Old Tour #Scotland #Ancestry Travel Visit #Genealogy #Scottish Family #History Blog #photography of salvaging Brems a Brummer class minelaying German light cruiser at #Scapa Flow, #Orkney #Islands. Scapa was main base of the #British Grand Fleet tour-scotland-photographs.blogspot.com/2017/10/old-...
We have an announcement.
OUR CHERRY TREE IS BUDDING! 🌸
Thank you to the Orkney Japan Association - our tree is one of 30 cherry trees planted across #Orkney as part of the Sakura Cherry Tree Project. 🌸❤️🌸
Tour #Scotland travel photograph and video Blog clip, with #Scottish music, of the #Old #Beacon #Lighthouse on #Island Of #North #Ronaldsay on #ancestry, #genealogy, #history visit and trip to the #Orkney #Islands tour-scotland-photographs.blogspot.com/2021/06/old-...
Tour #Scotland travel photograph and video Blog clip, with #Scottish music, of the new #Lighthouse on #Island Of #North Ronaldsay on #ancestry, #genealogy, #history visit and trip to the #Orkney #Islands tour-scotland-photographs.blogspot.com/2021/06/new-...
Tour #Scotland travel photograph and video Blog clip, with #Scottish music, of the South Lighthouse on #ancestry, #genealogy, #history visit and trip to #Fair #Isle, located halfway between the #Shetland #Islands and the #Orkney #Islands tour-scotland-photographs.blogspot.com/2021/07/sout...
I know I should be getting to sleep but this is too exciting! It's a beautiful clear night sky in #Orkney with a full moon and finally a manned flight will be heading towards it in just a few minutes!! 🚀 #ArtemisII #NASA
Old Tour #Scotland #Ancestry Travel Visit #Genealogy #Scottish Family #History Blog #photography of Peat Carts on the #Orkney #Islands. Crofters bringing home the peat back to their cottages, and ready for use was very labour intensive tour-scotland-photographs.blogspot.com/2011/02/old-...
On the way to my #OnePlaceStudy Another ferry to go after the current one and a quick visit to #Orkney Archive
First swift.
First swallow.
First cuckoo.
You can keep them all.
Nothing uplifts the spirit more than the first Bonxie.
Over Hinso today.
#Papay #firstbirds #Orkney #greatskua #bonxielove
A whistle stop tour of Papay today..
A patient auk.
Arrival.
Knap of Howar.
Island all.
#Papay #Orkney
Cast Forward - Artwork from Orkney’s Senior School Pupils is on display at the Pier Arts Centre until 18 April 2026
The Pier Arts Centre is open Tuesday-Saturday 10:30am-5pm. Admission is Free
#PierArtsCentre #Orkney #schools
April 2021. #Orkney vole living in House 7 at #SkaraBrae. There were loads in the village at the start of the spring that year following #Covid by August they were all gone due to the stoats 😭
This is such good news, I have been worried about them! #Orkney voles are unique, arriving on the islands during the #Neolithic they have a lot to tell us about human and species migration
#Zooarchaeology
BBC News - Stoat cull credited with rise in Orkney vole activity
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Nope, but I can do a tenuous 4...
1. I used to work and volunteer at #Orkney Museum
2. My son's friend at primary school was Otto Barthurst's son
3. Otto directed Colin Firth in Lockerbie the Search for Truth
4. Colin and Kevin Bacon appeared in the 2005 film Where The Truth Lies
🫳🎤 💥 Boom!
Israeli occupation and illegal settlements in the #WestBank Thank you as always to @theorkneynews.bsky.social for their consistent coverage of #Palestine & events by Amnesty Orkney & Orkney Friends of Palestine in #Orkney who continue to raise awareness & support for Palestinians. #PalestineLandDay
The view out the back of the library. It's very cloudy but very light.
Well this is quite unbelievable.
We started back in early January on a cold, dark night BUT now it's the end of March and it's Monday night and it's 5pm so it's time for EPISODE TWELVE of 'How light is it in #Orkney at 5pm this week?'
OMG
PEOPLE
IT
IS
THIS
LIGHT!
💡❤️🌞
Bringing some representation for the underappreciated #selkie for this month's #hardcoverchallenge 💪 Love getting to paint some of the UK folklore I grew up reading about.
@hardcoverart.com
#fantasyart #folklore #nsfwart #orkney
Orkney / This Life Andrew Greig For Catherine and Jamie It is big sky and its changes, the sea all round and the waters within. It is the way sea and sky work off each other constantly, like people meeting in Alfred Street, each face coming away with a hint of the other’s face pressed in it. It is the way a week-long gale ends and folk emerge to hear a single bird cry way high up. It is the way you lean to me and the way I lean to you, as if we are each other’s prevailing; how we connect along our shores, the way we are tidal islands joined for hours then inaccessible, I’ll go for that, and smile when I pick sand off myself in the shower. The way I am an inland loch to you when a clatter of white whoops and rises . . . It is the way Scotland looks to the South, the way we enter friends’ houses to leave what we came with, or flick the kettle’s switch and wait. This is where I want to live, close to where the heart gives out, ruined, perfected, an empty arch against the sky where birds fly through instead of prayers while in Hoy Sound the ferry’s engines thrum this life this life this life.
It is big sky and its changes,
the sea all round and the waters within.
It is the way sea and sky
work off each other constantly…
—Andrew Greig, “Orkney/This Life”
from INTO YOU, @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social 2001
#poem #poetry #Orkney
www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/poem/orkney-...
