How low can you go?
I’d like you to have a look at two of my photographs, taken a minute or two apart. They are of a …
Ground-nesting Sandy Laverock
There’s a Ringed Plover nest here, next to the footpath, near the coast: I can tell that because, as I walk past, …
Sandy Laverock
This juvenile Ringed Plover is a wonderful bird. In Orkney the Ringed Plover is called Sandy Laverock. The UK conservation status of …
Ringed Plover
Ringed Plover are meant to breed on the coast. Human destruction of the environment means they now breed in gravel pits and …
Don’t try that old broken wing trick on me, Sandy Laverock
We’re walking around the north coast of Papa Westray. It’s one of the smaller inhabited islands of the Orkney archipelago. It’s full …