OFC Office Holders								 3
Presidents Letter								 4
Editorial									 4
Obituary									 5
Friends in Need Indeed								 6
OBRC Field Courses 2003								 6
Three-spinned Sticklebacks (Gasterosteus Acyleatus) in the Loch of Stenness	 8
Electro-fishing Orkney Burns							14
House martin Project - Year 3 Report						18
Redressing the balance - Year 7							23
An American Visitor								24
Kirkhope: Anecdotal Observations						30
Recording Ethics								31
How I came to Know Wildflowers							33
A Unusual Local Weed, and Some National Research into Geneflow			34
The Origin and Evolution of Wild Turnip, Brasica rapa, in the UK		35
Stonewort Records 2003								37
The Scarlet New Zealand Truffle, pauroctylis Pila				39
Bryophyte Report 2003								42
Wildflowers in Orkney in 2003							43
Orkney Marine Molusca								45
orkney Coleoptera (Beetle) Records 2001-2003					48
Grasshopper and Cricket Records: 2002 and 2003					52
Ants in Orkney: 2001, 2002, 2003						53
Dragonflies in Orkney 2002,2003							55
Lepidoptera Report for 2003							58
Amphibia - 2003									64
Fish - 2003									65
Social Wasps - 2003								66
Orkney Cetacean Report - 2003							67
Brown Hares and Water								71
Bumbles and Other Bees - 2003							72
Annual General Meeting								74
OFC Juniors Report								75
Statement of Acccounts 2003							76
Recorders and Recording, Orkney, VC111, 2004 Update				77