This site is basically an online diary of birds seen on Whalsay in the
Shetland Islands. Current news, with tales of past rarities and a few
photographs thrown in.
Eastern Subalpine Warbler
Turbocharged Orca off Foula
Dark morph adult Long tailed Skua
Blue-winged Teal
Bluethroat
Two-barred Crossbill
Snipe
Great Reed Warbler
Wood Warbler
Bedstraw Hawkmoth
Grasshopper Warbler
Yellow breasted Bunting
Long-tailed Skua
Coue's Arctic Redpoll
Steppe Grey Shrike
Pied Flycatcher
Female Red-necked Phalarope
Long-eared Owl
young Otter
Treecreeper
Yellowhammer
Red Grouse chicks
Field Mouse
Skylark brood
Peacock butterfly
2nd winter drake King Eider
Painted Lady
Heron
Red Admiral
Stonechat
Breaching Orca in Yell sound
Blue Tit
Greenish Warbler
Narthusius Pipistrelle bat
Collared Flycatcher
Hummingbird Hawkmoth
First winter Little Gull
Redshank chick
Buff-breasted Sandpiper
Spyhopping Orca
Crossbill
Crossbill drops a seed.
Icterine Warbler
Great White Egret
Goldcrest
Golden Plover
Wood Warbler
Bullfinch
Bar-tailed Godwit
Waxwing
Cuckoo