My first hour or so out of the house was an opportunity for my 6 year old daughter to stretch her legs in a local playground a few hundred yards from our base in Lake City. Next up overhead the dark form of a turkey vulture gliding around, closely followed by several more and a black vulture in tow. In one of the trees at the playground another mo.

A lovely day in Shetland. Weisdale Voe in bright early spring sunshine. An amazing place, housed in an old church, and containing a huge instagram. Standing stone, part of the Clava cairns, a type of Bronze Age circular chamber tomb cairn. Snow as part of every day living! .

This is the blog for bird sightings and related news in the Calderdale area. It is generally updated daily. Monday, March 19, 2018.

Andrew Cockroft, Birds , Moths and Butterflies. A regular look at the varied wildlife that I come across in Northowram a small village in Calderdale and days out around the UK. Most observations are from the house and gardens Vis mig records are within 500m of the house. Sunday, 8 April 2018. First Swallow today at Cooper Bridge flying down the river. Sunday, April 08, 2018. Saturday, 7 April 2018. Saturday, April 07, 2018. Friday, 6 April 2018. Friday, April 06, 2018. Thursday, 5 April 2018.

The Orkney Book of Wildflowers is scheduled for publication at Christmas 2014. Tim Dean is writing the text, Anne Bignall is painting the habitats and flowers and the Orcadian is responsible for the publishing. The book will be a sister volume to The Orkney Book of Birds and will follow the same unique and successful format. Monday, 7 October 2013. Still in flower 6th October.

Sunday, 19 September 2010. As Sian intimated in her comment to my previous post, Rousay is a beautiful island. The view from our walk. just like little cotton wool balls. This massive stone is in a field on a hill side looking out over the northern islands. Gods of the Earth Gods of the Sea. Friday, 17 September 2010.

Old Nisthouse day-to-day rook data. A rook diary from Orkney. Asymp; Leave a comment. Quite a few dead adult rooks around, and a few very weak adults on the way out as well. One dead chick found under the nests so far. Asymp; Leave a comment. Young rooks could be heard in the nest today.

Burray is one of the Southern isles on the East side of Scapa Flow linked to the Orkney Mainland by the Churchill Barriers. Friday, 24 July 2015. Sunday, 26 April 2015. Tree Sparrow and other sightings. That said Summer migrants are arriving or passing through. I have seen Tree Sparrows down South and I have even ringed a few but I had .