Northern Long-tailed Tits at Strand Loch, Tingwall & The Northern Lights!

Northern Long-tailed Tit

In the Plantation at Strand Loch, Tingwall 

 

Four Northern Long-tailed Tits were found in the plantation by Strand Loch, near Tingwall this afternoon! I had fabulous views of these, but more distant than the ones on Yell. Lovely to see Deryk Shaw who was warden on Fair Isle when I last visited. Also John and Dennis Coutts, Kevin Kelly & I presume wife, Adrian Kettle, Adam and myself enjoying these charasmatic little birds. Raining on and off whilst I was there. Then went off to find my own birds, but nothing else found by dusk. A male Siberian Rubythroat was trapped and ringed on North Ronaldsay today!

Rainbow over Gallow Hill – taken from my driveway

 

Scalloway – from the Scord this evening

 Tingwall Valley

Scalloway – from the Scord this evening

 

After seeing all the pictures of Northern Lights here on Facebook this evening, I just went to see them for myself  and took some handheld photos on my old iphone, not very good pictures, but glad I went out. The temperature outside was -1.5° so drove very carefully! Taken from the Scord at Scalloway and Tingwall Valley. I shouldn't be so lazy as I have the correct lens for my Canon R5 for taking shots of the Northern Lights.