Outdoors

Take the first step in developing your wildlife garden by joining biodiversity specialist Eileen Summers in looking for wild seeds in the park. We'll be joined by its designer, Paul Green, ethnobotanist Anna Canning with information about plant uses, and artist Lin Chau showing how seeds and leaves can be incorporated into paper.

A tour of the Earl’s Bu site in Orphir, from the Round Church to the site of a horizontal mill, accompanied by archaeologist Dr Colleen Batey and rounded off by a brown bag lunch of Orkney fare, with the kind of items that might have been enjoyed by the Earls themselves!

Come and join the Orkney Native Wildlife Project at the Ring of Brodgar in this family-friendly open day and explore every part of the world's largest stoat eradication project. Look too for the native Orkney vole, and make nature journals. There is no charge for this event.

See some of the Museum’s natural history collection, then set off to the Point of Ness and beyond to see seashells and stromatolites, granite rocks and wildflowers. On the way there are stories about famous naturalists such as Hugh Miller and Robert Rendall, and views across the harbour from the cannon and across Hoy Sound.

This guided walk with Rangers Sandra Miller and Elaine Clarke of Historic Environment Scotland explains more about the site, its history, archaeological investigations and its place in Orkney's Neolithic past. Howie Firth accompanies them to highlight some of the astronomical questions raised over the years.

Drop by to meet volunteers from Orkney Marine Mammal Research Initiative (OMMRI), who will let you have a look through their telescope and share information about their work and how to identify different species.

Join Whale and Dolphin Conservation at Yesnaby car park to watch out for whales, dolphins and porpoises. Over-18s only. There is no charge for this event. CANCELLED DUE TO WEATHER