Day one of a week-long tour, and we’re off to a flyer – unbelievably close views of 2 pods of Killer Whales, numbering 6 and 4 animals respectively, doing the full suite of behaviour – active hunting for seals, spyhopping, rolling, tail-slapping… and some of this just a few metres offshore below us. We’ve been [...]
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I like skuas. As a family, they have a lot going for them. They’re an uncomplicated lot, easily pleased. Something to either steal or kill to eat, a nice remote bit of wilderness to nest in, some open sea to ply their trade over… and they’re happy. They get a lot of bad press though, [...]
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…and the birding is easy. Shetland’s basking in some fine weather at the moment, my vegetables are all growing well, and the holes are gradually being dug for the new heligoland. I have trees waiting to be planted in and around it, so anticipate some busy evenings and weekends coming up building it and making [...]
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I saw 2 Arctic Foxes in the area on consecutive days, and on both occasions despite being at least half a mile distant they scarpered at the first sight of me (ha, I have that effect on all things foxy) – a legacy of being persecuted fairly relentlessly in parts of the country. Plenty of [...]
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