Sunset over Bressay

We were greeted by glorious weather when we arrived, and this stuck around for a couple of days. While we waited for our accommodation check-in, our first outing was to walk from the Sumburgh Hotel up to the well-known Sumburgh Head RSPB site. It’s a short walk on the coastline, and we started to get our first glimpses of the seabirds that use Shetland to nest during the Spring/Summer months. As we started to walk up the hill towards the lighthouse Guillemots lined the lower cliff edges, the intoxicating smell of their guano rising up, Fulmars cackling to each other on the cliff tops, and the clowns of the sea; Puffins, could be seen zooming around and rather clumsily landing at their burrows.