Orkney Field Club Holders & Membership Details					 3
Presidents Letter								 4
Editorial									 4
Orkney's New County Flower							 5
Editor's Note on Armeria Maritima						 6
Meadow Brown Fact Sheet								 8
Slug is a Four Letter Word							11
Purple Ramping Fumitory								14
Blotchnie Fiold Revisited: 18th June 2004					19
House martin Nesting in Orkney in 2005						21
Strange Goings-on in Great Western Road						22
Redressing The balance - Year 8							22
The Field Studies Council							24
Plants in a Drowned Winter Landscape						28
2004 Surveys of Orkney Trout Populations					33
Botanical Recording in 2004							41
Bees and Wasps 2004								44
Fish 2004									46
Amphibia 2004									46
Bats 2004									47
Orkney Cetacean Report 2004							47
Bearded Seal 2004								50
Lepidoptera Report for 2004							50
Stonewort Records 2004								54
Draft Minutes of the 2005 Annual General Meeting				60
Statement of Accounts 2004							62
Recorders and Recording, Orkney, VC111, 2005 Update				63
Guidelines for Bulletin Contributors						68