Whalsay Bird Diary   by John Lowrie Irvine

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

l

young Otter

Treecreeper

Yellowhammer

Red Grouse chicks

Field Mouse

Skylark brood

Sk

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

Back to top