Shetland Seabird Tours

Welcome to Super Seabird Sunday where we ask you to share photos, videos & artwork of seabirds to brighten up timelines. To get us started here are thousands of Puffins on the Isle of May #SuperSeabirdSunday

Just ONE WEEK to go until the Aussie Bird Count kicks off! 🐦

From 20–26 Oct, Australians everywhere will spend 20 mins counting the birds!

One in six Aussie birds faces extinction – which means every bird counts!

👉 aussiebirdcount.org.au
#AussieBirdCount #BirdLifeAustralia #BirdLifeOz

Rarity finders: White-throated Needletail in Yorkshire Mandy Gregory and Ray Maddison discuss a routine visit to Tophill Low NR that transformed into an unforgettable day when a White-throated Needletail appeared, while Ashley Saunders describes the bird's remarkable relocation at Bempton Cliffs RSPB.

Rarity finders: White-throated Needletail in Yorkshire

Mandy Gregory and Ray Maddison discuss a routine visit to Tophill Low that transformed into an unforgettable day, while Ashley Saunders describes the bird's remarkable relocation at Bempton Cliffs:

Dream finds yesterday with Ayda and I finding 2 Columbus Crabs on a washed up buoy covered in goose barnacles on Burra, Shetland. #beachcombing #shetlandswildlife #shetland #marinelife #columbuscrab #atlanticdrift

4 full tours today with a break in the weather! Here’s a beautiful Atlantic Puffin bringing in sandeels for its chick. There are only a few puffin now on the waters around Noss & on the cliffs as the pufflings fledge and they all head off for a long 8 months on the open sea! #thenossboat #nossboat

CAA issues first launch licence for UK space company A GLASGOW-BASED space company has been granted the first ever vertical launch licence for a UK firm, and could launch up to 16 rockets a year from Unst....

A Glasgow-based space company has been granted the first ever vertical launch licence for a UK firm, and could launch up to 16 rockets a year from Unst.

shet.news/lcvh9

Vacancy opens for one of the UK’s most remote nursing jobs A RARE opportunity has come up for someone to work in Fair Isle as the community’s nurse. NHS Shetland is looking for a district nurse/nurse practitioner for...

A rare opportunity has come up for someone to work in Fair Isle as the community’s nurse.
NHS Shetland is looking for a district nurse/nurse practitioner for the island, which has a population of around 60.
shet.news/c3hxp

Amazing trip today with @thenossboat.bsky.social

Thank you for a memorable day 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿💙

#plasticfreeoceans 🙏🏻

@rachelburden.bsky.social I just thought I would share this photo I took last week up in the Shetland Islands. The Gannets nests are made almost exclusively of plastic. And if you look you will see one of them is caught up and hanging dead from the nest.

So sad 😞

Summer plumaged Grey Phalarope found by Phil yesterday morning. I got to see it in late evening light last night around 9pm! So glad I did! Look at those feet! #shetland #springbirding #greyphalarope

Eye-browed Thrush - Yell. Wasn’t expecting this belter of a thrush on my way to change over our self catering Solan House on Unst today. Found earlier by Christian Melgar and found out in the open for us with minutes to spare by Adrian Kettle. Only our second for Shetland after Phil’s bird in 2020.

A break in the weather today, we have 5 full tours in much improved conditions! Many of our June dates are fully booked already. Fancy a seabird spectacular boat tour to Noss with our very own resident Shetland naturalist and skipper Phil!? Get in touch today or check out our availability online!

Global Birdfair
11, 12 & 13 July 2025
Lyndon Top, near Oakham Rutland
Don’t miss out
Info and tickets at
www.globalbirdfair.org

#birds #birdlife #conservation #nature #festival #rutland

Nest material collecting during gale force winds - Atlantic Puffins in abundance at Sumburgh Head today. A brief lunchtime visit gave me the puffin fix I craved. #puffins #sumburgh #shetland #seabirdtours #thenossboat

Razorbill in Lerwick Harbour last week. #shetland #seabirds #auks #razorbill #boattours #thenossboat

Today was an exciting day of quality over quantity, the highlight being a male Western Subalpine Warbler. Other notable birds included the first Buzzard recorded since 2020 and a mobile Turtle Dove. Read more on our latest sightings www.fairislebirdobs.co.uk/latest_sight...
📸 A Penn

Happy 99th Birthday, Sir David Attenborough! 🎉

Today, we celebrate not just an extraordinary milestone, but an extraordinary life. We join the global chorus in expressing our deepest gratitude for Sir David Attenborough’s lifelong dedication to the natural world. 🌍🎂

📸Chris Howard/BBC/Silverback

Great to have you back out with us Jon! Love the Risso’s shot! Incredible scarring!

Risso's Dolphin (Grampus griseus) © Jon Dunn

An amazing encounter with a nursery pod of Risso's Dolphins today on our Shetland Nature tour, while out off Noss with @thenossboat.bsky.social - as ever, exemplary boat-handling by skipper Phil with the animals' welfare always at the forefront. And yes, that's a bonus Puffin!

Gannets at Noss - what an incredible sight! Join us for a real gannet’s eye view in 2025, the holiday highlight for thousands of passengers each year. Your highly experienced naturalist crew are professional ornithologists & photographers, let’s show you you’re very own ‘Attenborough Moment!’