New friends

 Woke out guests up this morning as the Orcs were about, they shot out of the door really quickly!

Jill started the day, in the rain, making a compost heap. Long overdue?.

On Fetlar we met two chaps up for the Classic Car show and we met again today.

Jill took them up to the old Radar base above the house and it was fascinating. They have obviously been around quite a few military sites so they were able to help with working out what some of the buildings actually were. We found 2 bunkers.

It was amazing weather too and we had to be careful of the wildlife up there.

Jim and Jonathan were good company.

The spam find, unfortunately, wasn't that old.

Rob had an evening hospital appointment so we got that done and came home via Melby. Lots of common terns, oystercatchers and Sanderling.

Nice surprise, 2 great northern divers, one in full summer plummage.

The funny thing was, we met up with Jim and Jonathan again!

On the way home, our friend came to see us and we had lots of redshank.

Lovely day

More curlew than you can shake a stick at

 It seemed today was the day for Curlew to be on the move with their newly hatched chicks. After dropping off at the post office and buying biscuits, Jill did a few diversions on the way home, starting at Whitesness.

It's a very quiet road . On Gruting Voe, there was a large group of male eider around the mussel beds.

On the way back Jill spotted an adult Curlew on a wall. Then 4 chicks came out of the grass and came right up to the fence by the car. So sweet.

The adults were quite happy watching.

Until another Curlew came calling. It got pretty violent.

On the way home, Jill spotted a further 11 youngsters.