St Kilda World Heritage Site NTS

And then there were three! That's the full @N_T_S team back for another exciting season on #StKilda! For updates from the island this year, please follow our new social media account over on BlueSky: bsky.app/profile/stkildawhs.… ...you can also follow us on Instagram (@stkildan)

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'Twas the night before Christmas and all through the house not a creature was stirring not even a... Someone didn't get the memo! This St Kilda mouse is enjoying a midnight snack Have a lovely Christmas and we'll see you in the New Year

Hope your chimney is swept and ready for an important visitor......

The Soay lambs are born in April and May All I want for Christmas is ewe.....

Happy winter solstice - that's the days getting longer now but still plenty time to coorie in by the fire

I hid those presents in a cleit......

Advent window 19 - a summer evening in Village Bay . We'll be migrating to Blue Sky in the new year , why don't you join us there? @stkildawhs.bsky.social

Gleann Mor on the north of the main island from Soay

These small storage buildings, or cleits, are everywhere on St Kilda. These two are in Gleann Mor but there are over 1400 of them in the archipelago. Now which one did I hide those Christmas presents in....?

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The spectacular outline of Dun, which protects Village Bay from the worst of the Atlantic storms

Everyone was involved in the seabird harvest , storing up vital supplies for the winter

All is calm, all is bright . This lovely image of Village Bay on a still summer's day.

As the party season starts the old dances are sometimes the best... you put your right leg in ......

Three wise men - bearing the gift of drystane dyking. Every year there are dykes and cleits to repair and we couldn't do it without these skilled craftsmen

A Great skua keeping lookout from a ruined cleit. These birds were badly hit by avian flu and we are now part of a project to look at their immunity.

Puffinopolis! Spending most of their lives at sea, puffins come ashore to raise their young. St Kilda has the largest concentration in the UK You can follow us here too stkildawhs.bsky.social

One from the archives - this was taken in the early 20th century. Women knitted items to sell to tourists, an important part of their income

Looking east to the other Western Isles, they are there on the horizon