a busy Friday morning, with our first tour groups, Kirsty and her knitting group from KnittingTours.com followed by Kate Humble with her Wild and Woolly group from Shetland Nature
Lovely to meet you all, enjoy our beautiful Islands and come back soon🧸
#burrabears #shetland

We are delighted to welcome young Theo de Clermont Theo Declermont to the team this season. Theo is on a ‘sabbatical’ (of sorts) from our good friends over on Mull, Ewan Miles having been a valued member of the team there for the past three seasons.

Fantastic Theo de Clermont , kicking off with a 💥 - just don’t expect the sunshine to continue…. 😉

Good to meet up again with Iolo . One of your best -very informative & insightful and of course entertaining as usual ! Thank you
Totally agree with your view that Wolves & Bears should be reintroduced into the House of Commons 🤣Iolo Williams Shirley Hall Brydon Thomason

Another amazing idea by Shetland Seabird Tours • The Noss Boat

A massive shout to Indy Kiemel Greene and Katie Monk setting out n this epic fundraiser for Hebridean Whale & Dolphin Trust - both they and especially HWDT, very worthy of support! 👇

A big moment for our Orchids of Sicily tour today when the group found what hopefully may prove in time to be Italy's 1st accepted record of Lesser Flamingo* (Image c/o guest Pete)

We may be orchid-hunting, but that doesn't mean we ever stop looking for other wildlife!

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Go Mariposa!! Awesome work, as if your debut season hadn’t already got off to a dream start! Great work Mariposa Nature Tours
Couldn’t be happier for my good pal Jon Dunn 🇺🇦 and the team 👏

Fancy joining me for some Shetland spring birding? 11-17th May. Last minute availability- 2 spaces now come available. Last year’s itinerary saw all iconic Shetland breeding birds, turned up a PACIFIC DIVER and saw Eastern & Western Subalp, Hoopoe- oh and Orca and Otters too!

A magical Orkney spring dawn, windy and sunny. Geese were on the move, a Short Eared Owl surveyed the rushes from its fence post and Brown Hare's grazed quietly in the wide open fields. I saw my first spring migrant too, a beautiful male Wheatear, what a journey he's had!

If anyone wants to know what I have been doing the last 16 months of my life, this 😅🥳

Calling all birders, photographers, wildlife guides & dog walkers. Please Lek it be in 2024.

The mesmerising spectacle of thousands of Guillemots descending off the ledges of Hornøya as a White-tailed Eagle soars over the island.
What a place.

Hornøya Guillemots at sunset.

The sheer numbers of auks here on Hornøya is just mind blowing and tbh, actually quite overwhelming. Truly epic. I can’t help but imagine that this was how our UK colonies might have looked a couple of hundred years ago.
What a special place.

A couple of Vardo/Hornoya BOC highlights from yesterday. Bruini’s and Willow Grouse. Our last day today- can’t believe that a week nearly over! Already looking forward to our return next year.

Common Guillemot colony, Hornøya. Even if I wrote a thousand words, I couldn’t do justice to how mind blowing it is. Atlantic Puffin on snow was the headline act for most, but it is the sheer numbers of seabirds in the Arctic seascape & confiding nature that really got me.

Having an amazing tour so far to Northern Finland & Arctic Norway. Some highlights from our first couple days in Finland with Finnature, co-lead with my good pal KevMorgans

Walking through Helsinki Airport and had to double take as I heard the sweet sound of Rosefinch in song as we walked through this. Love it. 🇫🇮