
Days out
Mill Dam, Shapinsay 0.4 miles from here
Mill Dam is a wonderful wetland where wading birds and ducks can be seen all year round.
Mill Dam is a wonderful wetland where wading birds and ducks can be seen all year round.
Explore the thick heath at Cottascarth, look skyward for birds of prey as you scrunch toward our grass-topped hide. Settle into the hide, and keep watch for Hen Harriers, Short-eared Owls and Curlews.
Trumland is a mosiac of some of Orkney’s most spectacular habitats: explore the blanket bog and wet heath, or scramble the rocky outcrops and willow scrub, surrounded by bubbling Curlews and calling Cuckoos.
Discover Onziebust, a mosaic of glorious wildflower meadows, grassland fields and wetland areas on this island paradise for wildlife.
Marvel at hunting Short-eared Owls and Hen Harriers on the moorland or set out on a coastal walk to see Black Guillemots bobbing on the water and hear Twites twittering overhead.
Birds of prey rule the roost at Birsay Moors – see Red-throated Divers and Hen Harriers soar above this wild and rugged moorland.
A strip of land between two lochs, spot Curlews, drumming Snipe, Lapwings and Dunlins gathering around the water's edge at Brodgar.
Sit on a bench beneath the vast open skies above The Loons, close your eyes and enter a different world, alive with bird calls. This is a wonderful landscape, rich with many wild species.
Discover a spectacular seabird city at Marwick Head, with breathtaking views along the Orkney coastline.
Hoy is a landscape that will leave you speechless – all the better to listen out for the calls of Puffins, Razorbills and Fulmars that ring out from this rugged stretch of coastline.