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Wednesday wildlife – stoats, skarfies and selkies

Wednesday, September 21, 2022 (7:30 AM)

This week’s photographs from site director Nick Card.

A cormorant - or skarfie, as they're known in Orkney - coming in to land.

Cormorants sunning themselves.

Flock of dunlins mirrored in the loch.

Knot, still with vestiges of its brick-red breeding plumage.

Lone dunlin.

Rare two-headed cormorant.

Small flock of knot resting on the Stenness shore.

Stoat in dappled sunlight.

Stoat pauses for a portrait.

Swans fly-by of the Ring of Brodgar.

Two seals greet each other.

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