Comments on: Birdspotting – a Bluffer’s Guide

By: Dead Badger

Dead Badger — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 18:52:58 +0000

It’s not Handa, I’d remember a name like that; I forget where it actually is though. Judging by the order of my photos it has to be somewhere on the Orkney mainland.

And yes, I’m pretty sure we did see some genuine skuas, although perhaps not quite as many as were claimed at the time. Fortunately they just gave us the evil eye and occasionally went “arrk.” I’m not sure I would’ve got out of the car if I’d known about the divebombing.

By: Anne

Anne — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 17:22:33 +0000

At the risk of exposing myself as a twitcher, arctic skuas in seagull-like densities may not be so scandalous, depending on where you were in western Scotland. Handa Island, just off the very-north west of Scotland, has masses of the things. They’re particularly fond of dive-bombing, a charming greeting involving wacking the subject in the back of the head with their full weight behind taloned feet. Other than that they’re quite nice though. Your picture looks an awful lot like Great Stack on Handa, but then one sea-cliff is kinda like another really, red pandas aside.

By: Dead Badger

Dead Badger — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 21:11:54 +0000

The only reason I’m not deleting that is because it’s 25% of the comments I’ve ever received at this site.

Now that’s standards.

By: j-rizzle

j-rizzle — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 18:31:24 +0000

First