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Up Helly Aa Shetland

Tonight Tuesday 27th January is the Torch procession and burning of the Galley. Lightup is 7.30pm GMT.

www.//uphellyaa.org covers all information on the Festival.

UpHellyAa.com will also be covering the event live from 7pm GMT.

And 2026 greeted us with snow!

Farewell 2025.

**A glorious sunset sees the end of the year.**

Seasons greetings.

Wishing you all a very Happy Christmas and every good wish for 2026.

There will be full updates in the New Year.

Salmotrutta.

At last ….

**….. finally last week and nearly three weeks later than usual the resident pair of Mute Swans appeared from the far rush with this years brood of four cygnets and to date have remained there.**

Unusual Visitors

**Hybrid/Feral geese – for several years a small flock of these geese** **have occasionally been seen on the Loch the result of interbreeding between wild Greylag and domestic geese.** **The Lapwings and Mallards are not disturbed by their prescence!**

Coconut Alley

With Spring well underway the Whins (Gorse) along the track to the Loch are in full bloom and the air is full of the scent of coconut created by the golden blossoms.