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

Bluethroat

Great Reed Warbler

Bedstraw Hawkmoth

Coue's Arctic Redpoll

Pied Flycatcher

Female Red-necked Phalarope

young Otter

Treecreeper

Yellowhammer

Red Grouse chicks

Field Mouse

Skylark brood

Peacock butterfly

Painted Lady

Red Admiral

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.

Goldcrest

Wood Warbler

Bullfinch

Bar-tailed Godwit