Papay ranger - Jonathan Ford @papayranger.bsky.social · 7hBarnacles yesterday, Whoopers today. Northern birds bringing light and life. #Papay #Orkney #swanlight 1170
Papay ranger - Jonathan Ford @papayranger.bsky.social · 15/10/2026East coast to West coast Chasing shadows (and birds) #Papay #islandwalks #Orkney 0211
Papay ranger - Jonathan Ford @papayranger.bsky.social · 15/10/2026From the land of ice to the land of gales. Barnacle geese fresh in this morning.. From Svalbard? #Papay #Orkney 0144
Papay ranger - Jonathan Ford @papayranger.bsky.social · 14/10/2026The island has shifted into Winter palette, almost overnight. in light of no trees, to speak of. The sea signals the change. South Wick and North wick today. #Papay #Orkney 1222
Papay ranger - Jonathan Ford @papayranger.bsky.social · 14/10/2026Helen’s #BirdOfTheDay theme today via Atlantic Birding is: #ShoreBirds; any bird on the shore. Four from the Papay shore.. Horse gok - Snipe Knot Purple sandpiper Sanderling #Papay #Orkney 1261
Papay ranger - Jonathan Ford @papayranger.bsky.social · 13/10/2026Pickie, because they pick at your head.. Pickie terno in Papay. 100
Papay ranger - Jonathan Ford @papayranger.bsky.social · 13/10/2026Many thanks - thanks for doing the BOFTD.. 000
Papay ranger - Jonathan Ford @papayranger.bsky.social · 13/10/2026@atlanticbirding.bsky.social has given us #LookingDown for #BirdOfTheDay. A juvenile Pickie on a stab. #Papay #Orkney #fencesitters #arcticterns 2263
Papay ranger - Jonathan Ford @papayranger.bsky.social · 12/10/2026The full feather spectrum of brown, a flying autumn forest floor. In Papay. Wryneck. Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #Brown, any bird with Brown in its plumage. #Papay #Orkney #birdmoths 0282
Papay ranger - Jonathan Ford @papayranger.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Close encounters of the Eigg kind. An Sgurr It would take 8.1875 Papays to be as high. Scaled today. #Eigg #sweeneysbothy #pitchstone #monolith 0151
Papay ranger - Jonathan Ford @papayranger.bsky.social · 30/09/2026No planes or boats to Papay today, but the Gannets were in fine form, fun to watch them from the New pier.. #Papay #Orkney 1101
Papay ranger - Jonathan Ford @papayranger.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Solan goose. Fishing in 50mph winds this morning. Old pier, Papay. #Orkney #Gannets #autumngales 0121
Papay ranger - Jonathan Ford @papayranger.bsky.social · 29/09/2026As today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #EFG I will go with a double G... Glaucous gull.. #Papay #orkney #icebirds 0210
Papay ranger - Jonathan Ford @papayranger.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Passing through. And. Going over. #northernwheater in bound from Greenland #primulascotica the last of the last flowering. #Papay #Orkney #islandautumn 080
Papay ranger - Jonathan Ford @papayranger.bsky.social · 27/09/2026A lost and found seabird. The Great auk, revealed. For today’s #BirdOfTheDay theme is: #Seabirds; any bird found at sea or the coast. #Papay #Orkney #Greatauk 1192
Papay ranger - Jonathan Ford @papayranger.bsky.social · 26/09/2026A breezy, tropical autumn day on South Wick today. #papay #orkney 0131
Papay ranger - Jonathan Ford @papayranger.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Solan goose. With a Bewing backdrop. #Papay #Orkney For the #BirdOfTheDay theme today of #TheDivers, photos of any diving bird, courtesy of @helenbennett.bsky.social . 0130
Papay ranger - Jonathan Ford @papayranger.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Pink-footed geese. An inverted V Over Holland Today #Papay #Orkney 0132
Papay ranger - Jonathan Ford @papayranger.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Aerial reconnaissance over Egilsay today. The 12th century kirk of St Magnus from behind the wheel of an islander. #Papay #stmagnus #Orkney 0102
Papay ranger - Jonathan Ford @papayranger.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Its a good intro to the quality within.. 020
Papay ranger - Jonathan Ford @papayranger.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Selkie 1 and Selkie 2 at Leaper’s geo on yesterday’s Papay Tour. The watchers, watched. 0162
Papay ranger - Jonathan Ford @papayranger.bsky.social · 15/09/2026An Autumn Hen harrier. Thermal. #Papay #Orkney 1191
Papay ranger - Jonathan Ford @papayranger.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Pink feet. Spelling out. The arrival of Autumn. 0181
Papay ranger - Jonathan Ford @papayranger.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Hen harrier. Hovering. Links of Moclett today. #Papay #Orkney #henharrier 1110
Papay ranger - Jonathan Ford @papayranger.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Could be a bit of both of today's themes.. Today’s #BirdOfTheDay theme is: #Mouthful; a bird with anything in its beak Alt is #Black plumage. #Papay #aakward #Orkney 2241
Papay ranger - Jonathan Ford @papayranger.bsky.social · 11/09/2026A recent reconnaissance survey of the Holm of Papay, all the geos, the Holmie sheep and neolithic burial cairns in one go.. An island off an island. #Papay #Orkney #holmsweetholm 094
Papay ranger - Jonathan Ford @papayranger.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Some days, the cloud and the archaeology have equal footing.. The Knap O'Howar on an autumn day. 0345
Papay ranger - Jonathan Ford @papayranger.bsky.social · 04/09/2026Just when you thought it was safe.. A huge male Grey seal on the Holm of Papay today. #Papay #Orkney #selkies 1142
Papay ranger - Jonathan Ford @papayranger.bsky.social · 03/09/2026A first time south. From the high Arctic. Juvenile Sanderling taking in tropical Papay today. #Orkney #Papay #wadersonthemove 0151
Papay ranger - Jonathan Ford @papayranger.bsky.social · 02/09/2026For today's #BirdOfTheDay theme of #ItsAllWhite... A flashback to a 360 degree head turning Snowy owl, #Papay 2021.. All most - all white. #Orkney 0231
Papay ranger - Jonathan Ford @papayranger.bsky.social · 01/09/2026Everyone is welcome in Papay. Apart from the birds. #Papay #Orkney 070
Papay ranger - Jonathan Ford @papayranger.bsky.social · 31/08/2026Selkies at Mary's Geo this morning. Ever inquisitive and ever chilled, eyes on you, unless sleeping.. #Papay #Orkney #selkies 0261
Papay ranger - Jonathan Ford @papayranger.bsky.social · 29/08/2026A small island with small things in big scapes - land and sea. Primula scotica in the last of the second bloom and a distant Risso's dolphin. #Papay #Orkney 0210
Papay ranger - Jonathan Ford @papayranger.bsky.social · 28/08/2026The passers by. Are, passing by. Juvenile Cuckoo. For you. From Papay. And Franz Kline. #cuckoo #papay #passagebirds #orkney 0110
Papay ranger - Jonathan Ford @papayranger.bsky.social · 27/08/2026Kittiwake jnr at the New pier this morning, a gathering spot at this time of year. #Papay #Orkney #kittiwakes 1120
Papay ranger - Jonathan Ford @papayranger.bsky.social · 24/08/2026Always the last to leave. A young Mallimack (Fulmar) still has a way to go before it joins the finest fliers in #Papay. Safe in its Quarry based accommodation. #Orkney #fulmars 0122
Papay ranger - Jonathan Ford @papayranger.bsky.social · 23/08/2026It will be lovely to see you both again. 021
Papay ranger - Jonathan Ford @papayranger.bsky.social · 23/08/2026Papay. The Island state. 23/8/26 From the north. #Papay #Orkney #islandstate #birdseyeview 2246
Papay ranger - Jonathan Ford @papayranger.bsky.social · 23/08/2026Small falcon. Small island. Female Merlin at Breckaskaill this morning. #Papay #Orkney #falcon #merlin 0151
Papay ranger - Jonathan Ford @papayranger.bsky.social · 22/08/2026A scattering of Groatie Buckies- set on a bed of Devonian sandstone 380million years of age. A fine haul on today’s Papay Tour. #Papay #orkney #lakeorcadie #groatiebuckies 081
Papay ranger - Jonathan Ford @papayranger.bsky.social · 21/08/2026Second best to Black guillemots.. but they are all top birds.. 010
