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Time and Tide Bell, Camas Bostadh, Great Bernera, Lewis
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Western Isles - Uig, Great Bernera and Mangurstadh, Lewis
Time and Tide Bell, Camas Bostadh, Great Bernera, Lewis, installed in 2010, with the island of Bearasaigh in the background. This is one of 12 bells around the country installed to be rung by the sea at high tide, to celebrate the connection between land and sea, and between ourselves and the environment.
21 June 2011
Stonechat, Great Bernera, Lewis
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Western Isles - Uig, Great Bernera and Mangurstadh, Lewis
Stonechat (Saxicola torquata), Great Bernera, Lewis. Normally a common species, this was the first observed by the photographer anywhere in Scotland in 2011 after two exceptionally severe winter spells in 2009-10 and 2010-11.
21 June 2011
Iron Age House, Bosta, Great Bernera, Lewis
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Western Isles - Uig, Great Bernera and Mangurstadh, Lewis
Iron Age House, Bosta, Great Bernera, Lewis, reconstructed in 1996 after being laid bare by a storm in 1992. Five houses were discovered, dating from the late Iron Age or Pictish period, 400-800 AD. The settlement in a sheltered bay, had running water, good grazing and arable land. The people ate seafood, meat and grain. The village is in the care of the Bernera Historical Society.
21 June 2011
Iron Age House, Bosta, Great Bernera, Lewis
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Western Isles - Uig, Great Bernera and Mangurstadh, Lewis
Iron Age House, Bosta, Great Bernera, Lewis, reconstructed in 1996 after being laid bare by a storm in 1992. Five houses were discovered, dating from the late Iron Age or Pictish period, 400-800 AD. The settlement in a sheltered bay, had running water, good grazing and arable land. The people ate seafood, meat and grain. The village is in the care of the Bernera Historical Society.
21 June 2011
Camas Bostadh and Bearasaigh, Great Bernera, Lewis
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Western Isles - Uig, Great Bernera and Mangurstadh, Lewis
Camas Bostadh, Great Bernera, Lewis, with the island of Bearasaigh in the background.
21 June 2011
Time and Tide Bell, Camas Bostadh, Great Bernera, Lewis
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Western Isles - Uig, Great Bernera and Mangurstadh, Lewis
Time and Tide Bell, Camas Bostadh, Great Bernera, Lewis, installed in 2010, with the island of Bearasaigh in the background. This is one of 12 bells around the country installed to be rung by the sea at high tide, to celebrate the connection between land and sea, and between ourselves and the environment.
21 June 2011
Bridge to Great Bernera, Lewis, across Loch Barraglom
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Western Isles - Lewis
Bridge to Great Bernera (right), across Loch Barraglom, part of Loch Roag, which separates Great Bernera from the mainland of Lewis (left). A mussel farm is to the left of the bridge.
26 June 2011
Whitethroat, Great Cumbrae
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Firth of Clyde - Great Cumbrae
Whitethroat (Sylvia communis), a summer visiting and breeding warbler on Great Cumbrae.
06 June 2009
Great Crested Grebe weed dance
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West Lothian - Linlithgow Loch Great crested grebes
Great Crested Grebe (Podiceps cristatus) pair doing the head shaking display before the weed dance, which is the climax of their courting behaviour prior to mating.
05 March 2013
Great Crested Grebe weed dance
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West Lothian - Linlithgow Loch Great crested grebes
Great Crested Grebe (Podiceps cristatus) pair dive to collect weed, then approach each other to do the weed dance, the climax of their courting behaviour prior to mating.
