Swiss Chocolate

 We had four days with new friends from Switzerland and Germany. They were very good company and our Swizz guests left us some yummy chocolate. They can definitely come again. We have had another two 10 out of 10 reviews on booking.com too. A good week.

Jill did a croft visit with one of the farming groups.

they are offering grants to aid waders and land management for them. It was a lovely evening, thank you Alan, your new scrape is lovely. It's a beautiful croft too.

We have fitted in a bit of bird watching too as the weather has been fantastic 

Mostly at Melby.

The starlings have been amazing too.

Jill has been tidying up outside. There is another step too.

Bit of time out

 No change overs today and our guests were off out. So, after some cleaning up we went for some birding. We started at Huxter, where we had a new patch tick, a Rook. Not many on Shetland, a few struggles and a small rookery at Kergord.

Not much else at Melby , Norby or Huxter though, apart from Fulmars and Shags, 

so we headed South to Sumburgh, Virkie and Boddam..

Guillemots,but no puffins.

We did find some pink feet geese and the long staying American wigeon

Making use

 Jill went to the cinema for a treat on Saturday. It was good to borrow Sarah's daughter, Kaitlyn, as an excuse to go and see a children's film. It was the Faraway Tree and it was fun. Lovely cameo parts with Michael Pailin and Lenny Henry.

The last few days have been very busy with guests so not much time for doing much but we have really had some amazing visitors. Jill did fit in a clear up and took some bits to the tip yesterday

As part of the tidy up Jill has made use of the chimney pot that didn't quite look right. It's now planted up with Nasturtiums.

A bit more ditch appeared too.

A quick trip to the village shop this afternoon gave an opportunity for a quick bird watch. Several chiff chaffs and a couple of swallows made it feel a bit spring like.

There was a curlew that actually didn't just run away.

The redshanks are now paired up and there seems a lot this year