Tale of two otters

 Sad to see our honeymooners head off this morning. We wish them all the best for their future. What a lovely couple.

Yesterday. We popped over to Skerries.  We had a nice red throated diver on the way. 

It was flipping freezing and had actually snowed over night but it was super to catch up with Baz and Emma on the ferry. We congratulated Baz on his new Dandelion book. If Baz doesn't know a type of Dandelion, it doesn't exist!

It stayed cold all day. We had a few chiffys, a Willow warbler, 2 redpolls, 12 swallows and 2 otters. One of Skerries and one were we ate our tea in Scalloway Harbour. Jill always gets excited seeing otters. Jill found a small patch of Danish Scurvy grass just starting to flower. It grows in Norfolk at the road edge as it likes salt 

This one's called spot. Spot the otter!

Honeymoon

 We said goodbye to our fabulous guests, Jaimie and John ( great to meet you) and Joseph and Julia ( super young couple from Golders Green). We sorted the washing and cleaning and had an evening at Melby. 17 common terns and still plenty of Purple Sandpipers, some in full summer plumage 

Today we had four new guests coming in, so we did our chores early and decided to try and find puffins at Sumburgh. Plenty on the sea, but only 1 on the cliffs. Good numbers of razorbills and a showy raven 

Then we headed North checking out several spots. Jill got a Shetland tick, Greenshank, but too far away for photos.

Tonight's guests are amazing a lovely couple from Germany Brigit and Maurice ( think I have spelt both wrong!) and Kirsten and Freddie from Canada and Berlin, who have come to us on their honeymoon. We ordered a sunset specially.