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Papay ranger - Jonathan Ford
@papayranger.bsky.social
Artist, island ranger, curator of feathers.
A special request for @matthew-blake.bsky.social and @shroomgirl.bsky.social
St Tredwell's chapel on a frozen in part loch.
Rain and low cloud stopped play.

#Papay #Orkney
January 6, 2026 at 11:51 AM
Voyager 1 - a pilgrimage.

An ice planet twinned with saturn.

#Papay
#Pilgrimage
#Orkney
#Saturn
#sttredwell
January 6, 2026 at 9:06 AM
This island state.
The island state.
Today 5/1/26

Definitely not the 51st.

Ice Station Papay - Orkney
January 5, 2026 at 6:20 PM
Snow off the Mull.

#Papay #Orkney #cloudspotting
January 5, 2026 at 12:58 PM
South Wick Rover.
With perserverance.

#Papay
#planetpapay
#Orkney
#snowsand
January 4, 2026 at 7:06 PM
The last plane out before the shut down.

Ice Station Papay.
January 4, 2026 at 12:04 PM
Winter light
Cloudlit

Island.

#Papay #Orkney
January 3, 2026 at 8:13 PM
South Via.
Looking North.

#Papay #Orkney #islandsnow
January 3, 2026 at 2:45 PM
Luminosity device
January 3, 2026 at 10:29 AM
The Papay Cloud Appreciation Society
January 2, 2026 at 3:43 PM
An island icing.

#Papay #Orkney
January 2, 2026 at 2:23 PM
As the gales blow us into 2026, time to wish everybody a fun and healthy new year.

2025 was definitely the year of the Great auk for me.

Enjoy your Hogmanay wherever you are and see you on the other side.
December 31, 2025 at 12:34 PM
Live rainbow cam…

Winds getting cooler from the North.

#Papay #Orkney
December 30, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Hookin Croft, a half moon spindle whorl, and the narrow path to the far north.. #Papay #Orkney #today
December 27, 2025 at 5:02 PM
For the #BirdOfTheDay theme of #outstretched, with a hint of #red too.

A Papay Pickie.
December 27, 2025 at 11:55 AM
For the early birds.. Starlings get the left overs…
December 27, 2025 at 8:55 AM
Happy christmas to you all from a very still Papay.

All the best for the festive season
December 25, 2025 at 4:09 PM
The eve morning, unseasonably so…
December 24, 2025 at 9:47 AM
For the #BirdOfTheDay theme of #sideprofiles.

An Auk, it has to be.

#Puffin in #Papay - #Orkney
December 23, 2025 at 12:28 PM
December 22, 2025 at 3:24 PM
A bird of the day ran aground.
An Aak on land.
For #grounded birds

#BirdOfTheDay
#Papay
#Orkney
December 22, 2025 at 1:51 PM
A solstice dawn.
6 hours and 4 mins to do all that you need to do.
With light.

#Papay
#Orkney
December 21, 2025 at 9:06 AM
A Grey plover, kind of day.
Over before.

#Papay
#Orkney
#islandholm
December 20, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Clouds as big as islands.

Cloud of the day competition over already.

#Papay
#Orkney
#cloudislands
December 19, 2025 at 10:45 AM
Midden marine mammal
Mammal midden marine
Marine mammal midden

#Papay
#orkney
#bonearchaeology
December 18, 2025 at 4:24 PM