Very Special Film night

 Lovely sunrise again yesterday.

Jim was here. We are clearing space so next week we can crack on with the extension. Yay!

Today we had a bit of a drive out. We looked for the American Coot but couldn't find it  Did have distant views of Little Grebe, Morhen and Red-necked Grebe.

There were also lots of Whoopers about today.

The light was pretty bad and the wind was still brisk so some good waves and a few birds at Grutness.

Quite a few curlew about.

We stopped in Lerwick on the way back to try for the Northern Eider. Difficult as the light was atrocious.

This evening we had a super time at the Walls Hall. Local celebrities Billy and Susan Mail were holding a big screen viewing of the National Geographic film

It was filmed in Walls. Jill has photographed the otters in the film  playing and feeding in the Voe. If you haven't seen it  on the tv yet we highly recommend it. It won the windscreen Panda Award for best wildlife film.

It was a good evening with a big turn out.

Spiggie

 Luckily a rare visitor, an American Coot, stayed fir a 2nd day at Spiggie so we took off to go and see it as it is a new bird in the UK for Jill

Spiggie is a lovely spot and it is lovely n sunshine.

The Coot was still there but was very distant. You could make out the differences between a normally Coot and this one. Black tip on bill and white butt when upturned. Photos were rubbish though.

Rob treated Jill to a late lunch at Fjaras. Yummy.

Lovely sunrise.

Today we had Jim in sorting the window in the byre. It's good to get rid of the bit of ply in front of it 

Jill carried on with the next bit of the path and the end of the bit in the courtyard.

Pleased with the path.

Storm Bert

 It's been quite wild the last few days. When it's wild, Shetland is beautiful.

 Jill popped down to the beach to watch the sun go down over the waves.

The burn between the loch and sea was fuller than ever. It would have been impressive when the mill was working.

Today the weather was better as it wasnt so cold. Jill worked on a bit more path and cleared out the debris from the trench round the extension. It did get chilly!

Still trying to sort out the EV point for the car. Motability don't seem very keen to sort it out with any speed and Ohme are making lots of excuses. It's all very disappointing and frustrating. Motability said today that it might invalidate the warranty if we keep using the 13amp grannie charger. Doh, easy fixed if they sort the charging point. 

Lovely rainbows today.

Scenic trip out

 Still snow on the ground so there has been nothing going on with the house. Unfortunately the new tablet Rob has been on for his heart made his leg swell and the fluid caused his newly healed foot to open again. Sigh. Not quite so bad this time though.

 We went and discussed roof trusses in town while we were there and then we stopped by the GP for a new prescription

Today, collecting the prescription meant we had time out for a wander.

We started at Melby,  where we got our first Shetland Grey Plover.

. The coast was weird as Sandness has no snow but Ronas Hill was covered

There were a few long tailed ducks about, a Dunlin, Seals and lots of twite.

There were 11 Whoopers at zbousta having fun breaking the ice.

We headed to town and had lunch on the harbour watching the gulls. The weather turned nasty and it as almost dark by 2pm.

We watched the freight ferry leave early to outrun the weather.