Outdoors - Nature

Mill Dam RSPB Reserve is a wetland on the island of Shapinsay in the Orkneys, a natural marsh was dammed in Read more…

Fitty Hill has some excellent views over the Westray coastline and should be part of any coastal walk. Also where Read more…

The Old Man of Hoy is a sea stack situated on the island of Hoy in Orkney, near to the Read more…

North Hill is a remote and windswept coastline jutting out into the north-east Atlantic. Its highest point – Errival – Read more…

The Churchill Barriers are a series of four causeways in the Orkney Islands with a total length of 1.5 miles Read more…

The Brough of Birsay is a small 21-hectare uninhabited tidal island off the north-west coast of The Mainland of Orkney. Read more…

The Standing Stones of Stenness is a Neolithic monument on the Mainland, the largest island of the Orkney Isles. Dating Read more…

Noup Cliffs sit over 76 metres above the sea on the north-west coast of Westray in the Orkney islands.  This is home Read more…

The Knowe of Queen o’ Howe is one of Orkney’s lesser-known but fascinating archaeological sites on the Mainland. It is Read more…

The North Ronaldsay Bird Observatory (NRBO) was established in 1987 to study and record the migrant birds that pass through Read more…