Last Friday was our final session with Ranger Sally (Fair Isle Bird Observatory) before she leaves Fair Isle for her next venture, completing her masters and researching puffins! The children loved working with Sally this year and have enjoyed the activities she has organised, such as building a bug hotel, pond dipping, rock pooling, making trawler nets and searching for plankton, and citizen science projects like The Big Seaweed Search and submitting data from our annual beach clean (Da Voar Redd Up) to the Marine Conservation Society.

Most recently, Sally has taught the children about bird migration so our final session was a local walk to identify migratory birds. We found 10 different birds on the chart Sally gave us. We will miss Sally and wish her all the best!