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Walking Group One 25th April 2024
Five hardy souls collected today at Happy Valley for the first Hill Walk of the year .The temperature was cool with a North Easterly wind blowing and a hint of rain on arrival.
Off we set heading towards Russadale Quarry, spotting a Buzzard on the way.Turning into the footpath we remained sheltered from the wind all the way to the top of the hill.
The sun was out at the Quarry and a Greenshank was feeding at the edge of the Lochan. Then it was up the Peat road to the summit with spectacular views across Stenness and Harray Lochs, plus a view of the Closed Road beyond the Watch Stone. On the other side we looked over the Flow and down towards the Oil Platform and South Ronaldsay
Then it was back down after a stop for a snack and finally a walk around Happy Valley itself. The Daffodils planted by James and others were looking lovely and the Bluebells are days away from opening. Then it was on to a well deserved lunch at the Pier Cafe, having walked 4 miles and gone up 800 feet (and down again )
The next walk will be on Friday 24th May and hopefully more hills and views.
Keep moving.
BIRD WALK FEBRUARY
by TIM WRIGHT - 17:09 on 20 February 2013
Nine hardy souls met at the Evie Sands today in a stiff South easterly wind but cold,dry weather.We walked from beyond the Broch back to the toilets and luckily the tide was out so we were able to get down on the shore.All the usual birds of the shore were seen such as Turnstones,Ring Plover as well as Merganzers,Long Tailed Ducks and a solitary Great Northern Diver.The highlight was a Red Throated Diver seen out at sea but not on the Burgher Hill Loch when we went up later.We were all very happy to get back to the cars and warm up.
Beryl is looking into orginizing a trip to Westray to walk the West Side walk.She is planing this for June 12th .She is discussing this with Graham Maben to take us to the start of the walk and to bring us back to the village at the end.There is a maximum number of 14 for this and it requires a reasonable degree of fitness as I think it is approx 8 to 10 miles .The members of the group today seemed keen to take this on .More information will follow.
Tim 20.02.13
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