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Eider Duck family and Common seals, Ham Voe, Foula
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Shetland - Foula
Eider Duck (Somateria mollissima) family and Common seals (Phoca vitulina), Ham Voe, Foula
30 June 2014
Eider Duck family and Common seal, Ham Voe, Foula
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Shetland - Foula
Eider Duck (Somateria mollissima) family and Common seal (Phoca vitulina), Ham Voe, Foula
30 June 2014
Eider Duck family, Ham Voe, Foula
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Shetland - Foula
Eider Duck (Somateria mollissima) family, Ham Voe, Foula.
30 June 2014
Common cotton grass, Foula
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Shetland - Foula
Common cotton grass (Eriophorum angustifolium), by the Ham Burn as it exits the Mill Loch, Foula, Shetland. A member of the sedge family, this plant thrives in wet acidic habitats such as bogs, hence its other name 'Bog cotton'. Botanically it is not related either to cotton or to grass.
29 June 2014
Yellow flag iris, Foula
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Shetland - Foula
Yellow flag iris (Iris pseudacorus) by the Ham Burn as it exits the Mill Loch, Foula.
29 June 2014
Fulmar pair, Foula
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Shetland - Foula
A pair of Fulmars (Fulmarus glacialis) interacting at their nesting colony on the slopes above Ham Voe, Foula. Fulmars greet and talk to each other, sometimes when one of the pair has just arrived at the nest, and sometimes while brooding is going on and they feel like an outbreak of pair bonding.
30 June 2014
Fulmar pair, Foula
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Shetland - Foula
A pair of Fulmars (Fulmarus glacialis) interacting at their nesting colony on the slopes above Ham Voe, Foula. Fulmars greet and talk to each other, sometimes when one of the pair has just arrived at the nest, and sometimes while brooding is going on and they feel like an outbreak of pair bonding.
30 June 2014
Silverweed, Foula
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Shetland - Foula
Silverweed (Argentina anserina) at Ham Voe, Foula
30 June 2014
Tormentil, Foula
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Shetland - Foula
Tormentil (Potentilla erecta) at Ham Voe, Foula
30 June 2014
Northern marsh orchid, Foula
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Shetland - Foula
Northern marsh orchid (Dactylorhiza purpurella), Ham Voe, Foula
