A flapper skate mermaid purse

Spotted a couple of strangely large mermaid’s purses on the beach at Birsay on Orkney. Looked it up on the internet - a from flapper skate, apparently, very rare and needed reporting.

Lesson: if you see something a bit out of the ordinary, look it up.

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An oldie from Aug 2018, juv gull, one of many that seemed to be collecting sticks or stones, followed by a short flight only to drop them.
Adolescent competitiveness.... 🤔

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Some key photographic moments from 2023.
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1Jay in the garden
2 Freshly fledged juvenile kestrel
3 Little Ringed Plover
4 Grey Seal
5 Turnstone
6 Blackbird (m) in the garden

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