On Papay you would say stabbed.. For the #BirdOfTheDay theme of #Posted Horse gok on a stab. #Papay #Snipe #Orkney

A Great aak for #SuperSeabirdSunday Our brothers of the Arctic on Fowl Craig, one fine summer. #Papay #Orkney

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

A good airt of wind for the Mallimacks today. #Papay #fulmars #Orkney #winddialect

Fowl craig, and the Great auk. The King of the Auks. #Papay #Orkney

On the capacity of volume 2

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

The capacity of volume, with an easterly gale. #Papay #Orkney

A Neolithic winter. The Knap O'Howar on a snowy Papay day in January. A fastness in time, caught. #Papay #neolithic #archaeology #orkney

The only Spoonbill ever recorded on Papay. Good enough for the #BirdOfTheDay theme of #longnecked I think… #orkney #longbirds #islandofbirds

Tystie incoming. On a rare calm day, even in summer. #BirdOfTheDay theme is #Reflections #Papay #greatauks #blackguillemot #redfeet

The seasonal sideways on Papay! Good to be back.. We have the best pilots.

Leaving Aberdeen - northern seas await.

All wing and no legs... A junior Pickie (Arctic tern). For today's theme of #shortlegs for #BirdOfTheDay #Papay #Orkney #islandofbirds

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

A #Papay Dunter with Dunter-lings. For the #BirdOfTheDay theme of #Ducks Eider duck to you, too.

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

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

The #BirdOfTheDay theme today is #EyeContact A Bridled guillemot, much cleverer than a normal Guillemot. #Greataak #Papay #Orkney

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.

As @robcrank68.bsky.social theme for today’s #BirdOfTheDay is #Paddling A Chaldro among the ware. Oystercatcher. #Papay #islandbirds #Orkney

For the #BirdOfTheDay theme of #poise. A Dunlin on Mull Head. #Papay #Orkney #islandbirds

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.

Whoopers in North Wick. Mute in South Wick. For the #BirdOfTheDay theme of #Swans #Papay #Orkney #swanseas

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

A Marsh warbler for today’s #birdoftheday theme of #birdinabush This one in the quarry garden at Holland farm. #Papay #orkney #islandbirds

Fowl Craig from Leaper’s Geo. Skarfies already staking a claim for the best nest spots. #Papay #birdnames #Orkney

A bad hair day for a Hair duck. Red-breasted merganser in a brisk Southerly. Hair duck, Papay name. #Papay #Orkney #birdnames

For the #birdoftheday theme of #feedingtime Tystie with food for a young one..

A bit of a quick screenshot, amazing aurora tonight..

In the cold light of day, Iceland gull for #BirdOfTheDay bathed in island #WinterLight #Papay #Orkney #whitewinger

"This that you see here I did design among the ice" Friderich Martens - 1 June 1671. Mallimack.

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

Counting while recounting. #Papay #greatauk #webscount

A very grainy Glaucous gull, in the fading light today. Having a rest while feeding on a Minke whale.. #Papay #Orkney #gulls

An island. Colour ringed. For winged. Migration #Papay #stonebuilt #Orkney

A Pickie on a stab. A Whaap on a stab. For the theme of #PerfectPerch two for the price of one for the #BirdOfTheDay

For the early birds..

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).

One for the #BirdOfTheDay theme of #Raptors Cattie-face or Short-eared owl on Papay, Orkney

Sand drift. North via and South via. #Papay #Orkney

Winter's fallen ware. Herti Geo - Papay - Orkney - Today

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

Pier end, all calm now.

For today’s #birdoftheday theme - three seen in Papay raptors - #birdsinflight - Merlin, Short-eared owl and Snowy owl.

For the gale force early birds.. winds blur the sun..

For #StandingStone Sunday. Stenness on the way to Papay,,

Watery pleeps as they are known in Papay. Or Redshank. Which should rightly be orangeshank. On the Old pier at Nouster.

Papay to Kirkwall - we are connected again.

The light difference between the beginning and the middle. A Papay winter's day. South Wick and North Wick.