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There was a really international flavour to the second outing of the year to the west side, where you have a chance to see some of the island’s breeding seabirds. Two sisters, one from the Netherlands, the other from Denmark; a family from Germany; and a young lass from South Africa. Also, a couple of [...]

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In the first event of its kind, the two North Isles’ Rangers led a joint expedition to Papay on Sunday June 8th, taking advantage of Orkney Ferries’ Sunday excursion. Anne Bignall’s Eday group met up with Rod Thorne’s Sanday contingent, and arrived on Papa Westray at noon. A minibus shuttle soon had the 2-dozen strong [...]

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Just before the assembly point, at least one car-full of the group had good views of a striking Red-backed Shrike on the fence-wires by the Fish-house Trowie, resting in the wheelbarrow. The crossing to Start point – a tidal island – was still slightly damp at about 1 o’clock; but almost everyone had Wellies, so [...]

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June 15th 2004 was a “Sanday Sunday”, and the Cricket Club took advantage of the convenient ferry times to arrange a home match against Stromness. Stromness batted first. They scored 87 altogether. Then Sanday batted. Though Ivan Leslie scored 29 and Bob Beale 22, the total score for the Sanday team was 79. Both teams [...]

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A full programme of Ranger Events for June has been published…

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