From Canada to Derbyshire

 Some more lovely guests. A mother and son from Canada  and a lovely solo traveller from Derbyshire and the reviews are still awesome. 

The weather has turned autumnal so it was too rough for Skerries today. We popped out to see the distant ring neck duck and had a 2nd look for the Hornemans Arctic redpoll, after not connecting with it yesterday. We still didn't!. Nice drive out though. Rough lochs and beautiful skies.

 We also stopped by our friend Penny's house to see her new bookcases and house design. It's all looking really lovely.

The joys of trying to get to Fair Isle!

 Day out with Leo, our guest, today to do a tour of the South of the mainland.

The weather was really nice.

We did the statutory photo in front of the Twatt sign and went to find the troll rock- although it's now a fairy rock.

We had a few birds too.

Nothing close though.

Today, Leo was due to fly to Fair Isle but unfortunately after dropping him at the airport, the flight got cancelled so Jill headed back to collect him for another nights stay. Hopefully he will get there tomorrow.

Several new bookings today and Jill had time for coffee with Sarah in Fjara. Nice!

Its awesome

 We love showing our home and area to our guests. Yesterday we had a new arrival. Leo is from London and liked our house so much , he is staying longer than planned and has booked an extra day!

He arrived by bus, so Jill collected him from the bus stop. Then we did a mini tour to show him the area. He loves it.

Today Jill did the cleaning early and headed out to Mossbank to pick up Mark for our day out, stopping at Co- op to pick up some ingredients as Leo is cooking us a meal.

The weather is still good so we sauntered around Nesting and the North Lerwick area including some of the docks.

The docks were very productive the light was amazing and there was plenty to see .

We drove home and met up with Sarah to take Mark home with some time to have a chat with our guests. Then Leo cooked an amazing Chinese dish.

Introductions

 We invited one of our guests to Out Skerries  today as he is a good birder. It was a truly beautiful day and the sea was really calm. There had been a Hoopoe about for a few days and we were pleased it was still there but it was difficult and flighty. We started one end of the ridge and walked along the area it ha been seen.

The sheep here are just odd!

We found the Hoopoe but only in flight and very distant.

Yup, that's how far away!

Actually most things were distant today, but we had Kestrel, Robin, 2 Whitethroat, 2 Lesser whitethoat, 5 blackcap, 2 spotted flycatchers,3  whinchat, around 14 willow warblers, 2 grey herons, 2 whimbrel and 2 skylarks, also a painted Lady and small tortoiseshell.

We also saw 2 minki whales, 2 sooty shearwater and 1 manx shearwater. 

It was definately a day where everything was too far away!

Before we left we visited our friends Jilly and Bert for some coffee. It was great to see them and we introduced them to Mark. Both Mark and Bert had been in kosovo.

Framed

 As promised yesterday, a photo of the new pictures.

Also, the old door has been given a new decal.

It went well with 2 rooms full and we got another lovely visitor book entry from our new Ukranian friends.

After cleaning up we went for shopping and a quick birdwatch. Not much about, but the ruff was still at Melby and there were more Dunlin coming in.still quite a few willow warblers too.

Off to Skerries tomorrow