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Container ship Atlantic Conveyor in Port Glasgow in 1987
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Doon the Watter - Firth of Clyde
Container ship Atlantic Conveyor being lengthened at the Ferguson shipyard in Port Glasgow in 1987. This ship replaced the older one sunk in the 1982 Falklands War. She was broken up in India in 2017. Scanned from a transparency taken by David Palmar.
19 September 2007
Staffa, with green sea and Fingal's Cave
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Mull
Staffa, with green sea and Fingal's Cave. Around the cave can be seen the basalt columns of the Giants Causeway, seen on a Turus Mara boat trip.
26 April 2008
sea breaking over rocks, Staffa
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Mull
Sea breaking over rocks, Staffa. I was seasick, but it was worth it!
26 April 2008
Puffins on Lunga
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Mull
Puffins (Fratercula arctica) and Sea Pink (Armeria maritima) on Lunga, Treshnish Islands, in the Atlantic Ocean off Mull. The adult birds return to their nesting colony in late March or early April and lay a single egg in late April or early May.
24 May 2008
Common Dolphin, Treshnish
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Mull
A Common dolphin (Delphinus delphis) jumping off Treshnish, Atlantic Ocean off Mull
24 May 2008
Seil Sound and Clachan Bridge
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Argyllshire - Firth of Lorn
Seil Sound and Clachan Bridge (the Bridge over the Atlantic) from PS Waverley. The Argyllshire mainland is on the left and Seil is on the right.
23 May 2023
Hooded Crow, RSPB Inversnaid
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Loch Lomond - Inversnaid
Hooded Crow (Corvus cornix) on an SOC Clyde outing to RSPB Inversnaid, taken by David Palmar. Unlike Carrion Crow Corvus corone, Hooded Crow are typically more sociable and will forage in small groups. Both species can interbreed which results in hybrid birds with varying plumages between a grey and black body.
01 May 2022
The Atlantic oak woods of east Loch Lomond, Inversnaid
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Loch Lomond - Inversnaid
The Atlantic oak woods of east Loch Lomond on an SOC Clyde outing to RSPB Inversnaid, taken by David Palmar.
01 May 2022
Male Redstart, RSPB Inversnaid
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Loch Lomond - Inversnaid
Male Redstart (Phoenicurus phoenicurus) on an SOC Clyde outing to RSPB Inversnaid, taken by David Palmar. This species starts breeding in May, and will typically have 1-2 clutches of eggs. Each clutch can contain up to 6-7 eggs in total.
01 May 2022
Clachan Bridge with Erinus alpinus
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CEP - Seil
Colin Palmar admiring the Fairy foxglove (Erinus alpinus) on the stone work of the Clachan Bridge, (known as the Bridge over the Atlantic). Scanned from a slide taken by CE Palmar.
