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Redshank chicks, Deils Craig Moor, Strathblane
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CEP - Stirlingshire and East Dunbartonshire
3 Redshank (Tringa totanus) chicks in Deil's Craig Moor, Strathblane. Scanned from a slide taken by CE Palmar in 1979.
28 May 1979
Marsh violets, Deils Craig Moor
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CEP - Stirlingshire and East Dunbartonshire
Marsh violets (Viola palustris) on Deil's Craig Moor (Dumbrock Muir), Strathblane. Scanned from slide taken by CE Palmar in 1979.
28 May 1979
Redshank chicks, Deils Craig moor, Strathblane
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CEP - Stirlingshire and East Dunbartonshire
3 Redshank (Tringa totanus) chicks in Deil's Craig Moor (Dumbrock Muir), Strathblane. Scanned from a slide taken by CE Palmar in 1979.
28 May 1979
Hen harrier food pass
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Dumfriesshire - Langholm Moor
Hen harrier (Circus cyaneus) pair in a food pass. The male brings food to the female, who flips upside down to receive it. A food pass can take place either during courtship, as in this case, or during brooding of the chicks later in the season, when the female is mostly on the nest and the male does much of the hunting.
This image was created by combining many shots taken in rapid succession to form a composite image, which gives an impression of the food pass, in which the male Hen harrier (above), carrying food, catches up with the female, who flips over to receive the prey item he drops for her, often a vole or a Meadow pipit, or sometimes a Red grouse chick.
19 April 2014
Lesser Black-backed gulls in flight and Ailsa Craig
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Firth of Clyde - Ailsa Craig scenery, plants and animals
Lesser Black-backed gulls (Larus fuscus) in flight and Ailsa Craig, Firth of Clyde
01 July 2007
Common blue butterfly on Heather, Ailsa Craig
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Firth of Clyde - Ailsa Craig scenery, plants and animals
Common Blue (Polyommatus icarus) butterfly on Heather or Ling (Calluna vulgaris), Ailsa Craig, Firth of Clyde. A very common butterfly, found in a range of sheltered sunny habitats. Underwings are similar between sexes. However, colouration can vary in the female's upper wings, with some being more brown than blue.
05 August 2008
Gannetry on Ailsa Craig
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Firth of Clyde - Ailsa Craig Gannets
An overview from the sea of a large part of the Northern Gannet (Morus bassanus) breeding colony or gannetry on Ailsa Craig, which in 2014 was over 33,000 pairs.
05 August 2008
Ailsa Craig Lighthouse
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Firth of Clyde - Ailsa Craig scenery, plants and animals
Ailsa Craig Lighthouse, completed by Thomas and David Stevenson in 1886 and jetty, Ailsa Craig, Firth of Clyde
05 August 2008
Heather around Ailsa Castle, Ailsa Craig
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Firth of Clyde - Ailsa Craig scenery, plants and animals
Purple Heather or Ling (Calluna vulgaris) adorns the slopes around Ailsa Castle on Ailsa Craig in the late summer. This 16th century castle on the eastern side of the island was built for the Hamilton family.
05 August 2008
Manx Shearwaters, Firth of Clyde
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Firth of Clyde - Ailsa Craig birds (except Gannets)
Group of Manx Shearwaters (Puffinus puffinus) on the Firth of Clyde
