I've been enjoying sketching streets and buildings in Kirkwall in ink and watercolour.

If you’ve ever wanted to show someone the difference between a Common Cormorant and a Shag, here it is.

How many chicks do you think these Common Guillemots are sheltering on their ledge nests?

Species evolve in harness with one another and often reach a stalemate of Cold War proportions. Out in the haar is an Arctic Skua chasing an Arctic Tern. Or did it start the other way around? 1/3

Arctic Terns have been mobbing this Arctic Skua; they recognise it as a threat instinctively. Arctic Skuas live by hunting the hunters. They are the equivalent of Omar from The Wire; the character who steals from the drug-dealers. 2/3

House Sparrows are recognised by fewer and fewer people. Let’s give them some love.

A final evening with the Puffins is always an emotional experience.

How much abuse are you likely to receive if you support women’s sport being free of men? Here’s some I received from a professor: thehallofeinar.com/2025/08/adult-… Linda Blade Jon Pike

How is it possible that CBeebies, the BBC aimed at children under 6, can claim that a male prostitute was an ‘inspirational mother’? Here’s my study of how a story got rewritten so it is now unrecognisable: thehallofeinar.com/2025/08/saint-…

Donkeys are beautiful animals but I'm still not leaving my house to them when I die.

An uncommon Common Gull is today's wildlife and nature post. Beautiful, aren't they?