Last Friday was a peach of a day, much sunnier than forecast and ideal for a walk on the west coast of mainland Orkney. Our Lass and I parked by Skaill Bay and set off towards Marwick along the low clifftops.
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| Rock Pipit |
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| You've either got or you haven't got... stile! |
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| This sea stack is known variously as Stack of Roo or Castle of Geostic |
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| A portal to another realm |
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| Stack of Roo |
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| A Fulmar family |
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| Risso's Dolphins out to sea |
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| Puffins |
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| A parasitic wasp Amblyteles armatorius |
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| Skylark |
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| Looking north towards Marwick Head |
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| A tranquil rockpool with the Atlantic beyond |
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| Our Lass and the Old Man of Hoy |
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| Hoy and a lumpy bit of mainland Scotland |
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| A fish fossil with a limpet shell for scale |
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| Still looking north to Marwick Head |
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| Looking south towards Skaill |
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| Puffins |
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| Puffins |
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| Stack of Roo |
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| It looked to be a glorious day at sea too |
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| A bit like a shield bug, but I don't think it is |
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| Ringed Plover |
4 comments:
Great pictures - You are really lucky to live in such a beautiful place with so much nature on your doorstep.
Alyson, we very are! It hasn't been a bad place to be locked down, but due to necessarily-cancelled plans, we're missing family very much.
Our good friends are heading up to Orkney soon for a holiday so I'll send a link to your blog. They love the great outdoors so it will inspire them I'm sure.
If they need any help or advice, feel free to pass on my details.
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