Wild Shetland Tours

Jun 1
1 min

Booted Warbler

The highlight of the spring as far as birds were concerned, for me anyway, was the appearance of a Booted Warbler in our garden at Bakkas...

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Nov 2, 2019
1 min

Waxwings

There was a small arrival of Waxwings into Shetland during October and the early part of November. This species is always eagerly awaited...

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Oct 1, 2019
2 min

2019 moths

Moth recording is a big interest of mine. For those who are unaware of this pastime, it involves basically having a big wooden box with a...

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Sep 16, 2019
2 min

A grand day out

A massive westerly storm had passed through Shetland over the weekend of September 14th/15th 2019, which looked ideal for bringing someth...

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Sep 1, 2019
3 min

Citrine Wagtail

Whilst guiding a day-trip on 2nd September 2019, and after visiting Eshaness, we called in at Hillswick to look for Otters before heading...

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Sep 1, 2019
1 min

Two-barred Crossbills

The summer of 2019 will long be remembered by Shetland's birdwatchers due to the enormous influx of the usually very rare Two-barred Cros...

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Jul 31, 2019
1 min

Otters

We've had lots of nice encounters with Otters over the spring and summer, on Mainland, Yell and Unst in particular. The individual below w...

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Jul 18, 2019
1 min

Dolphins

Whilst guiding on 18th July 2019, we were fortunate to discover a large pod of Atlantic White-sided Dolphins off the east coast of Yell. ...

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Jun 23, 2019
1 min

Butterflies

Shetland has a very small butterfly list; only 13 species have reliably been recorded in the islands! Of these, eight are classified as v...

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Jun 5, 2019
1 min

Great Knot

In a magnificent spring packed full of scarce and rare migrant birds in Shetland, what was probably the highlight was the appearance of a...

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May 15, 2019
1 min

Firecrest

May 15th was a gloriously sunny day in Shetland. Just prior to heading out guiding for the day I was putting the recycling out and heard ...

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May 1, 2019
1 min

Fair Isle

I was lucky enough to spend three days in late April guiding on Fair Isle, my favourite island in Shetland. The weather was beautiful, an...

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Feb 22, 2019
1 min

Tengmalm's Owl

The big bird news in Shetland recently has been the discovery of a Tengmalm's Owl in the west mainland. It was first seen by Jackie and E...

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