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Dunnet Head (09 Jun 2024)

Dunnet Head is the northern-most point on the UK Mainland – John O’Groats isn’t that, nor is it the northern-most settlement! It’s also another place to see nesting…

Return to Scrabster (09 Jun 2024)

We got up early on the 9th to catch the first ferry back to Scrabster, which left at 9am. I got a shot of the leading lights at…

Brough of Birsay (08 Jun 2024)

This was becoming a very busy day! The Brough of Birsay can only be access at low (or low-ish) tide, and the warden at the Broch of Gurness…

Broch of Gurness (08 Jun 2024)

We visited yet another wonderful site on the 8th! Broch of Gurness is Iron Age rather than Neolithic, and very well preserved. It has a stunning site, overlooking…

Birsay Moor and Sands of Evie (08 Jun 2024)

Birsay Moor is one of the higher points of Orkney, and is an RSPB Nature Reserve. We didn’t stop to look at birds, but it gives lovely views…

Yesnaby (08 Jun 2024)

Yesnaby is on the west coast of the Orkney mainland, and gives easy access to view spectacular sea cliffs, plus the birds that nest there. The weathered horizontally…

Hoy Sound (08 Jun 2024)

Our last day in Orkney, and we walked along Hoy Sound, past the Links Battery, to Warebeth and back. The day turned into a bit of a photo-fest…

Fields, Strathmiglo (28 Apr 2021)

My favourite fields, yet again! I liked the strong diagonal, and the contrast between the potato field on the right, and the wheat or barley field on the…

Silver Birch (01 Apr 2021)

I had seen the light through the silver birch a week or so before and come back once when it wasn’t sunny enough. Today it was what I…

River Braan (01 Nov 2020)

Another visit to a favourite place to take photos, when the SEPA Waterlevel data suggested there would be plenty of water – and there was. This photo illustrates…