The Ring of Brogar is situated overlooking Loch of Harray and near Loch of Stenness, midway between Stromness and Finstown in Mainland Orkney. It is an impressive stone circle originally having 60 stones and probably used as a lunar observatory.
The Ring of Brogar and one of our collies, Charlie.
The Ring of Brogar is one of the Orkney Islands most popular stone cicles.
While walking around the outer are of the Ring of Brogar with one of my collies, Tibby, on a lead I noticed a duck on it's nest just about 1 metre from the path. I used my telephoto lens on my digital camera to take a close up picture of the duck so not to disburb her. It made my day coming this close to Orkney wildlife.
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Duck on nest at the Ring of Brogar
Larger image of this computer generated picture of the small island off Stromness - Inner Holm.
Kirkwall harbour and town
