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Hogganfield Loch, Hogganfield Park, Glasgow - Whooper Swan
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Glasgow - Hogganfield Loch
Adult Whooper Swan (Cygnus Cygnus) at Hogganfield Loch in Hogganfield Park, a Glasgow City Council local nature reserve. This location is very suitable for urban birding, with a great variety of species arriving each season. Up to 22 Whooper Swans and two cygnets were here in the winter of 2010-11. In comparison with a Mute swan (Cygnus olor), as well as the difference in their beak colour, it can also be observed that they have a longer straighter neck.
19 January 2011
Blue Tit with sunflower seed in its beak, Glasgow
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Glasgow - Kelvindale
A Blue tit (Cyanistes caeruleus) with a sunflower heart in its beak. The bird visits a feeder for a few seconds, grabs a seed, then retreats to a bush where it can consume the seed safely. Taken by David Palmar in a Kelvindale, Glasgow garden. behind the bird is a hanging nest or resting hole.
30 January 2022
Male Blackcap, Glasgow
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Glasgow - Kelvindale
Male Blackcap (Sylvia atricapilla), a warbler which mostly migrates to Africa for the winter, but a few stay in the UK, or migrate to the UK from Scandinavia for the winter. Taken in a Glasgow garden in January by David Palmar. Despite being insectivorous in the summer, they are attracted to the garden in winter by sunflower seed and fat balls with seeds embedded in them.
30 January 2022
Stockingfield Bridge construction, Forth and Clyde Canal, Glasgow
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Glasgow - Kelvin Walkway, Forth and Clyde Canal, Dawsholm and Garscube
Works beginning to create the new twin-span pedestrian, cycle and wheeling Stockingfield Bridge over the Forth and Clyde Canal in Glasgow, where the Glasgow branch of the Forth and Clyde Canal joins the main line of the canal which runs from Bowling to Grangemouth. The new bridge will promote active travel and join up communities previously divided from each other, such as Wyndford, Ruchill and Gilshochill. Taken by David Palmar
12 January 2021
Stockingfield Bridge construction, Forth and Clyde Canal, Glasgow
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Glasgow - Kelvin Walkway, Forth and Clyde Canal, Dawsholm and Garscube
Works beginning to create the new twin-span pedestrian, cycle and wheeling Stockingfield Bridge over the Forth and Clyde Canal in Glasgow, where the Glasgow branch of the Forth and Clyde Canal joins the main line of the canal which runs from Bowling to Grangemouth. The new bridge will promote active travel and join up communities previously divided from each other, such as Wyndford, Ruchill and Gilshochill. Taken by David Palmar
12 January 2021
Stockingfield Bridge construction, Forth and Clyde Canal, Glasgow
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Glasgow - Kelvin Walkway, Forth and Clyde Canal, Dawsholm and Garscube
Works beginning to create the new twin-span pedestrian, cycle and wheeling Stockingfield Bridge over the Forth and Clyde Canal in Glasgow, where the Glasgow branch of the Forth and Clyde Canal joins the main line of the canal which runs from Bowling to Grangemouth. The new bridge will promote active travel and join up communities previously divided from each other, such as Wyndford, Ruchill and Gilshochill. Taken by David Palmar
12 January 2021
Red Fox asleep beside the Forth and Clyde Canal, Glasgow
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Glasgow - Kelvin Walkway, Forth and Clyde Canal, Dawsholm and Garscube
Red Fox (Vulpes vulpes) curled up beside the Forth and Clyde Canal, Glasgow, taken by David Palmar. Red foxes do quite well in the city, where it is warmer than the countryside, and where food is in reasonable supply, either from bins, from children throwing away their excess food, or from more conventional sources, such as rodents.
12 January 2021
Black-headed Gull eating white bread on the frozen Forth and Clyde Canal, Glasgow
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Glasgow - Kelvin Walkway, Forth and Clyde Canal, Dawsholm and Garscube
Black-headed Gull (Chroicocephalus ridibundus) eating a slice of white bread on the frozen Forth and Clyde Canal in Maryhill, Glasgow, taken by David Palmar Birds become hungry in the winter when food is scare and the demands of keeping warm increase. , birds will eat whatever they can find, even if white bread is not as good for them as natural food sources.
12 January 2021
Moorhens fighting over bread on the frozen Forth and Clyde Canal, Glasgow
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Glasgow - Kelvin Walkway, Forth and Clyde Canal, Dawsholm and Garscube
Three Moorhens (Gallinula chloropus) fighting over a slice of white bread on the frozen Forth and Clyde Canal in Maryhill, Glasgow, taken by David Palmar Birds become hungry in the winter when food is scare and the demands of keeping warm increase. Birds will eat whatever they can find, even if white bread is not as good for them as natural food sources.
12 January 2021
Moorhens competing for bread on the frozen Forth and Clyde Canal, Glasgow
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Glasgow - Kelvin Walkway, Forth and Clyde Canal, Dawsholm and Garscube
Two Moorhens (Gallinula chloropus) fighting over a slice of white bread on the frozen Forth and Clyde Canal in Maryhill, Glasgow, taken by David Palmar Birds become hungry in the winter when food is scare and the demands of keeping warm increase. Birds will eat whatever they can find, even if white bread is not as good for them as natural food sources.