The eve morning, unseasonably so…

For the #BirdOfTheDay theme of #sideprofiles. An Auk, it has to be. #Puffin in #Papay - #Orkney

Celestial birds. #pierpleasure #starlings #Kirkwall #Orkney

A bird of the day ran aground. An Aak on land. For #grounded birds #BirdOfTheDay #Papay #Orkney

A solstice dawn. 6 hours and 4 mins to do all that you need to do. With light. #Papay #Orkney

A Grey plover, kind of day. Over before. #Papay #Orkney #islandholm

Clouds as big as islands. Cloud of the day competition over already. #Papay #Orkney #cloudislands

Midden marine mammal Mammal midden marine Marine mammal midden #Papay #orkney #bonearchaeology

An unusually #Quietobserver for #BirdOfTheDay Common tern on the #Papay pier. #Orkney

We have no snow. The Tysties have gone all frosty. Just in case. #Papay #Orkney #blackguillemots

The #BirdOfTheDay theme is #groups.. A Plover arrow. Golden. #Papay #Orkney

Sundown on downtown Papay. 3.20pm Skies afire.

Immer gos vs the sea. #Papay winterer off the New pier today #Orkney #greatnortherndiver #winterloons

Island lights, on land too. There is life in the North. #Aurora #Papay #Orkney

Tonights lights. From the North. Cathode ray lights.

The island taxi..

A winter shore, with Selkie for scale. Where the Outrun swam.. #Papay #Orkney

Herti geo in flood + ebb

All things being equal, levelled up at high tide. #Papay #hightide #orkney

A tangled beginning to the day. #Papay #orkney

Two for #TombTuesday Holm of Papay South - Chambered cairn as seen by the birds of Winter and the birds of Summer. (Holmie sheep in formation. #Papay #Orkney #neolithic

Vestness from the sea. #Papay #Orkney

A winter palace and a winter king. The Knap of Howar and the Papay Great auk on a breezy Papay tour today. #Papay #greatauk #orkney

We have some new interpretation installed at the Old kirk. Reflecting on the multi layered settlement, with images from the site through the ages. From the iron age settlement, through early Christian, to the Norse and right up to the present day. A Papay Ranger design.. #Papay #Orkney #Munkerhoose

Aurora over Midhouse.. Tonight. #Papay #Orkney

A Rose Cottage rainbow. It is the season. #Papay #Orkney

Starlings, lost to their lunacy. #Papay #moonbirds #Orkney

The plane home, view from the rear facing camera!

When you look into the eye of a whale. #Papay #minkewhale #Orkney #adrift #ashore #asunder

Almost lost in the tangle. Minke whale washed up at Backaskaill today, possibly a young one. Beautiful and sad in equal measures. #Papay #whales #Orkney

And that was the day. #Papay #Orkney #islandwinter

Tangle stars, tangle bunting, tangle sparrow. None of them are true. Starling, Snow bunting and Rock pipit on North Wick yesterday. #Papay #tanglebirds #Orkney

Blossom. Y-axis #Papay #islandsurvey #lichen #orkney

The steamer and the school boat, both at the same time this evening.. #Papay #Orkney #seaconnections

South Via. All stone. Flagged. #Papay #Orkney

Holm sound, becomes copper plate, long after the sun had left today. #Papay #holmsweetholm #Orkney

The trouble with rain. Bows. #Papay #Orkney #rainbowdrops

The Old pier perch end. A mirrored sea. #Papay #Orkney

The point of an island? Vestness in todays golden light. #Papay #Orkney

A low light sun dog over Papay International airport yesterday.

Last flights feel like night flights. #Papay #Loganair #islandtaxi #Orkney

For #TombTuesday - Holm of Papay South Chambered cairn. With the only Neoloithic carvings ever found within the Papay archipelago. Boat trips to the Holm run from April to October every year, a service operated by the Papay Development Trust. #Papay #Orkney

The Neolithic gem of Papay at the Knap of Howar. Still the highlight of any island tour! #Orkney #islandtours #papawestray

For #BirdOfTheDay a Papay Kittiwake in full #ShadesOfGrey

The last bit of sun from yesterday afternoon. The end of a fine still day from my perch at the end of the New pier. #papay #orkney

Immer gos on golden pond, and a Razorbill in blue. A still sundown from the end of the New pier this afternoon. #Papay #Orkney #islandofbirds

Just received my gorgeous #Papay calendar! What a view of St Tredwell's Chapel! Thanks @papayranger.bsky.social x

#BirdOfTheDay suggestion is a bird on a post. A Long-eared owl doing just that, roosting before the journey south continues.

The Papay airfield at 2.30am. The lights in the North. #orkney #papay #aurora

Always fun to be the co-pilot on the journey home.. as ever top Loganair pilots! #Papay #orkney #journeyhome