Known best for it’s archaeology and connections with the two World Wars, the Orkney Islands are also a fantastic place for wildlife. Never before had I seen so many curlew, lapwing, oystercatchers, fulmar, starlings… just to name a few. I visited in July 2025 and returned in May 2026.
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It’s been a busy, photography-filled few weeks here in the Scottish Highlands where I’ve taken guests to meet my red squirrels, the dolphins, osprey and dragonflies as well as spending many evenings in the company of my garden badgers.
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It was wonderful to return to Lunga and the company of the personable puffins again after missing my regular May trips due to Covid.
Great to be back on Mull in late April 2019 for a week of wonderful wildlife encounters including otters, sea eagles and puffins.
A whistle-stop visit to East Lothian: encounter with a scruffy juvenile heron and the seabirds of St Abbs Head.
A weekend of wildlife including elusive puffins, seabirds, red squirrels, hares and red kites.
They may be busy, but there’s some wonderful wildlife to see on The Farne Islands including puffins, guillemots, fulmars and razorbills.
Mountain hares, otters, puffins, water voles and gannets – photographic highlights from the first half of 2017.
Puffins are amazing little seabirds – not only are they gorgeous to look at during the breeding season and certainly
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