Papay ranger - Jonathan Ford
@papayranger.bsky.social
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Artist, island ranger, curator of feathers.
On Papay you would say stabbed.. For the
#BirdOfTheDay
theme of
#Posted
Horse gok on a stab.
#Papay
#Snipe
#Orkney
about 21 hours ago
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A Great aak for
#SuperSeabirdSunday
Our brothers of the Arctic on Fowl Craig, one fine summer.
#Papay
#Orkney
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about 23 hours ago
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There aren't many serene days on
#Papay
But on a calm Autumn day a Grey phalarope, obliging as ever. Known as a Haf web on Papay. For the
#BirdOfTheDay
theme of
#Serenity
2 days ago
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A good airt of wind for the Mallimacks today.
#Papay
#fulmars
#Orkney
#winddialect
3 days ago
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Fowl craig, and the Great auk. The King of the Auks.
#Papay
#Orkney
3 days ago
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On the capacity of volume 2
3 days ago
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A black and white bird in black and white, on a very black and white day. For the
#BirdOfTheDay
Alt theme of
#Black&White
Thanks to Rob and Alan.. Caloo or Long-tailed duck
#Papay
#Orkney
#winterducks
4 days ago
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The capacity of volume, with an easterly gale.
#Papay
#Orkney
4 days ago
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A Neolithic winter. The Knap O'Howar on a snowy Papay day in January. A fastness in time, caught.
#Papay
#neolithic
#archaeology
#orkney
5 days ago
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The only Spoonbill ever recorded on Papay. Good enough for the
#BirdOfTheDay
theme of
#longnecked
I think…
#orkney
#longbirds
#islandofbirds
5 days ago
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Tystie incoming. On a rare calm day, even in summer.
#BirdOfTheDay
theme is
#Reflections
#Papay
#greatauks
#blackguillemot
#redfeet
6 days ago
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The seasonal sideways on Papay! Good to be back.. We have the best pilots.
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7 days ago
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Leaving Aberdeen - northern seas await.
8 days ago
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All wing and no legs... A junior Pickie (Arctic tern). For today's theme of
#shortlegs
for
#BirdOfTheDay
#Papay
#Orkney
#islandofbirds
8 days ago
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The Old Kirk and the sea. Looking South to St Boniface kirk on my first ever visit to Papay, Christmas eve 2013. An island of light, to come.
#Orkney
#Papay
#islandlight
#Spring
8 days ago
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A
#Papay
Dunter with Dunter-lings. For the
#BirdOfTheDay
theme of
#Ducks
Eider duck to you, too.
9 days ago
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For today’s
#BirdOfTheDay
alt theme of
#Blue
A late visitor to Papay, a few years ago. Caught in an Autumn breeze at Hookin. A Bluethroat, with still a bit caught.
#Orkney
#bluebirds
10 days ago
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reposted by
Papay ranger - Jonathan Ford
Steve Dudley
10 days ago
Please help to end the senseless harvesting of Gannets. It’s a ‘tradition’ that needs stopping. Please sign the petition which is already over 80,000 and I’m told the highest signed petition ever for a Scottish Parliament petition.
#birdingScotland
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Petition: Stop the Guga Hunt
Calling on the Scottish Parliament to urge the Scottish Government to amend Section 16 of the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981 to remove the power to grant licences for taking Gannets on Sula Sgeir.
https://petitions.parliament.scot/petitions/PE2202
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The
#BirdOfTheDay
theme today is
#EyeContact
A Bridled guillemot, much cleverer than a normal Guillemot.
#Greataak
#Papay
#Orkney
11 days ago
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As brown as a moth or the forest floor in autumn. On an island with no trees..
#brownisbeautiful
for
#birdoftheday
a
#Papay
passage migrant. Wryneck.
13 days ago
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As
@robcrank68.bsky.social
theme for today’s
#BirdOfTheDay
is
#Paddling
A Chaldro among the ware. Oystercatcher.
#Papay
#islandbirds
#Orkney
14 days ago
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For the
#BirdOfTheDay
theme of
#poise
. A Dunlin on Mull Head.
#Papay
#Orkney
#islandbirds
15 days ago
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reposted by
Papay ranger - Jonathan Ford
Corinna
16 days ago
Some great place-names too! Courtesy of Marwick: Hassings ON hálsa m. 'neck', for the isthmus joining the Holm to Cairn Head... the route from the island... to an island (at low tide) & Tide o' Hest m. 'stallion' somewhere off the south end there.
add a skeleton here at some point
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Whoopers in North Wick. Mute in South Wick. For the
#BirdOfTheDay
theme of
#Swans
#Papay
#Orkney
#swanseas
16 days ago
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Our boat trips out to the Holm of Papay start again this April, the ultimate island off an island off and island experience with some great Neolitithic burial chambers along the way.
#Papay
#Orkney
#archaeology
of
#islands
16 days ago
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A Marsh warbler for today’s
#birdoftheday
theme of
#birdinabush
This one in the quarry garden at Holland farm.
#Papay
#orkney
#islandbirds
17 days ago
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Fowl Craig from Leaper’s Geo. Skarfies already staking a claim for the best nest spots.
#Papay
#birdnames
#Orkney
18 days ago
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A bad hair day for a Hair duck. Red-breasted merganser in a brisk Southerly. Hair duck, Papay name.
#Papay
#Orkney
#birdnames
18 days ago
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For the
#birdoftheday
theme of
#feedingtime
Tystie with food for a young one..
20 days ago
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A bit of a quick screenshot, amazing aurora tonight..
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20 days ago
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In the cold light of day, Iceland gull for
#BirdOfTheDay
bathed in island
#WinterLight
#Papay
#Orkney
#whitewinger
21 days ago
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"This that you see here I did design among the ice" Friderich Martens - 1 June 1671. Mallimack.
21 days ago
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Four studies in purple. Always a highlight in the Winter
#wetlandbirdsurvey
Purple sandpiper in the golden light of Winter at Weelies Taing today.
#Papay
#Orkney
22 days ago
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Counting while recounting.
#Papay
#greatauk
#webscount
22 days ago
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A very grainy Glaucous gull, in the fading light today. Having a rest while feeding on a Minke whale..
#Papay
#Orkney
#gulls
23 days ago
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An island. Colour ringed. For winged. Migration
#Papay
#stonebuilt
#Orkney
23 days ago
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A Pickie on a stab. A Whaap on a stab. For the theme of
#PerfectPerch
two for the price of one for the
#BirdOfTheDay
23 days ago
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For the early birds..
24 days ago
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reposted by
Papay ranger - Jonathan Ford
Corinna
25 days ago
The 'other' Marwick (Ernest W., writer & folklorist) noted that Via is "pronounced Veea" & that tradition says "there was on[c]e a church here" & that the "bu'(?) was present in the flat piece of ground behind the home." 'Bu' is perhaps 'bow' 'indicating the cultivated ground' there (H. Marwick).
add a skeleton here at some point
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One for the
#BirdOfTheDay
theme of
#Raptors
Cattie-face or Short-eared owl on Papay, Orkney
25 days ago
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Sand drift. North via and South via.
#Papay
#Orkney
25 days ago
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Winter's fallen ware. Herti Geo - Papay - Orkney - Today
26 days ago
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The solitude of the winter sea. The
#BirdOfTheDay
theme from
@alan678.bsky.social
is
#Solitude
Red-throated diver in a stormy North Wick, Papay, Orkney
27 days ago
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Pier end, all calm now.
27 days ago
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For today’s
#birdoftheday
theme - three seen in Papay raptors -
#birdsinflight
- Merlin, Short-eared owl and Snowy owl.
28 days ago
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For the gale force early birds.. winds blur the sun..
28 days ago
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For
#StandingStone
Sunday. Stenness on the way to Papay,,
29 days ago
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Watery pleeps as they are known in Papay. Or Redshank. Which should rightly be orangeshank. On the Old pier at Nouster.
30 days ago
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Papay to Kirkwall - we are connected again.
about 1 month ago
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The light difference between the beginning and the middle. A Papay winter's day. South Wick and North Wick.
about 1 month ago
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