Wildlife
On our trips in 2017, we saw:
- Grey and Common Seals
- Porpoises
- Bottle nose dolphins
- Minke Whale
- Guillemots and Black Guillemots
- Arctic Terns
- Razorbills
- Fulmars
- Shags
- Great Skuas
- Puffins
- Herring gulls
- Eider Ducks
- Great Northern Divers
- Black Throated Divers
- Swans
- Blackback Gulls
- Gannets
- Greylag Geese
- Ravens
- Herons
- Cormorants
- Long-tailed Ducks
- Oyster Catchers
- Peregrine Falcons
- Curlews
- Sheld Ducks
- Kittiwakes
- Ringed Plovers
- Mallards
- Arctic Skuas
- Red Shanks
![Great Skua in flight](http://www.orkneyboattrips.co.uk/ESW/Images/Greatskuainflight.jpg)
![Common Seal](http://www.orkneyboattrips.co.uk/ESW/Images/Seal.jpg)
![Shag in flight](http://www.orkneyboattrips.co.uk/ESW/Images/Cormorantinflight.jpg)
![Dolphins in Scapa flow](http://www.orkneyboattrips.co.uk/ESW/Images/Dolphins.jpg)
![Long-tailed duck](http://www.orkneyboattrips.co.uk/ESW/Images/long-tailed-profile-enhanced.jpg)
![Peregrine Falcon](http://www.orkneyboattrips.co.uk/ESW/Images/perigrin.jpg)
Grateful thanks to Esther Neate, Jimmy Kirkton, Adam Clark, Michael Cook and Andrew Corse for permission to use their photos taken from Dawn Star and Dawn Star II.