St Kilda World Heritage Site NTS

Scottish government bans wet wipes containing plastic This type of wipe is a common source of marine litter and can break down into microplastics over time, harming the environment.

A little bit of good news for the ocean
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Crisp winter days often give the best view of St Kilda. This one from Benbecula

Bliadhna Mhath Ur! A guid new year to ane an' a! Happy New Year!

The National Trust for Scotland doesn't have any staff on island at the moment, so we'll post some archive pictures until April when we are back
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Nollaig Chridheil a h-uile duine! Happy Christmas everyone and we'll see you in the new year.
'Twas the night before Christmas and all through the house, not a creature was stirring not even a mouse...' This St Kilda mouse didn't get the Christmas memo and is enjoying a midnight snack

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Two more sleeps, better make sure your chimney is swept for an important visitor
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Advent window 22, a picture from the Trust's archives. The summer months were busy harvesting seabirds and storing them for the winter months
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Its winter solstice in the northern hemisphere. Today St Kilda will see about six and a half hours of daylight, but tomorrow the days start to get longer. Still plenty winter evenings to coorie in next to the fire.
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Cleits are a unique style of building to St Kilda, small stone built turf capped 'sheds'. Great for hiding those Christmas presents in
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All is calm, all is bright . This lovely image of Village Bay was taken on a calm summers day
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Well hello there, welcome to advent window 18. Soay lambs are born in late April and are curious to explore their surroundings
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Advent window 17. The St Kilda wren -Troglodytes troglodytes hirtensis - a unique sub species on the St Kilda archipelago . In the spring and summer the males can be heard singing all over the islands, defending their territories and making their presence felt.

Keeping an eye out for Santa, he won't come if you're awake!
St Kilda has the largest puffin colony in the UK, they love to eat sand eels and other small fish
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Make sure you post your cards in time for them to arrive before Christmas. The St Kilda post office was busy in the summer months with tourists sending postcards

St kilda offers a welcome rest spot for many migrating birds, including these geese.
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A fulmar takes flight. St Kilda has the oldest and one of hte largest fulmar colonies in the UK
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Todays advent - a mini lesson on Gaelic and Scots! Rain swells the Abhainn Mhor (Big River) on a dreich (gloomy) day . #StKilda#NTS#advent

What's behind advent door 11?
This moody shot was taken from Boreray , looking back to Hirta and Soay #advent #NTS #StKilda

📷Rowan Aitchison

In the summer thousands of puffins arrive on St Kilda to raise their young, digging burrows or finding handy hidey-holes for their nests. They are all now out in the Atlantic till the Spring
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Low winter sunshine strikes Village Bay
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On the eighth day of Christmas.... 8 maids a milking.
Both sheep and cows were kept for their milk and 19th century travellers commented on the fine cheeses

In summer the slopes of St Kilda turn pink with campion and thrift

St Kilda is home to the largest colony of northern gannets in the world.

This eider duck made her nest inside one of the many cleits

Soay sheep enjoy the rich grass of a St Kilda summer

Low cloud makes the landscape magical but can also obscure the cliff edges

What's behind today's advent window? A lovely view of the Bay from behind the village

It's that time of year again! Welcome to St Kilda World Heritage Site advent calendar. We'll share an image of this amazing site every day until Christmas.

Whilst giving a talk about #stkilda to the local #WI group in north Wales, Janet Crummy produced a mailboat that she’d found on Lewis when she was living there in 1975! 10 were sent by the Ranger Hugh Brown, 2 were found on Lewis and 4 found in Norway. @n-t-s.bsky.social #stkildaclub

Great to see our #NTSSeabirds and marine life well represented at #EdinburghZoo 's #GiantLanterns exhibition last night 🙂
Thanks to #StKildaClub for the invitation to speak at their annual reunion.
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Delighted to receive this late season record of a 1cy Ring-necked Duck on #StKilda yesterday from @soaysheep.bsky.social researcher Xavier Bal. A 2nd island record after the first in 2000!
Thanks for this fab 📷 @barnardlucy.bsky.social 🙂
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