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

young Otter

Treecreeper

Yellowhammer

Red Grouse chicks

Field Mouse

Skylark brood

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