Why tour Orkney with us?
We pride ourselves on the attention given to you, our guests, in blending Orkney’s wildlife and culture. We live here, and know that you will witness memorable lifetime sightings in our beautiful archipelago with its 5,000+ year-old monuments.
The weather will be fresh, the days long and the sights and sounds of our Simmer Dim will remain with you always.
Highlights include Long-tailed duck, Scaup and Great-northern divers, close up and breath-taking in their summer plumage. Lapwings, Curlews, Snipe and Redshank will be calling and displaying. Hen harriers will be ‘sky-dancing’ or making food passes for your enjoyment.
May brings the 1st flowering of the Scottish primrose, then later the cliff-tops will shock with their pinks and blues: Thrift and Spring squill. Other delights include large seabird and auk colonies on RSPB reserves; Arctic and Little terns, Arctic skuas and Bonxies; and perhaps even Orca or other cetaceans in Scapa Flow or the Pentland Firth. Orchids are in bloom in the moorlands and sea turf.
