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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
Waterfall on Ben Glas Burn, Glen Falloch
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Loch Lomond - Scenery
Waterfall on Ben Glas Burn, Glen Falloch near Loch Lomond, in torrential rain. In the foreground is the floodplain of Glen Falloch, before the River Falloch flows into Loch Lomond.
19 November 2012
Waterfall on Ben Glas Burn, Glen Falloch
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Loch Lomond - Scenery
Waterfall on Ben Glas Burn, Glen Falloch near Loch Lomond, in torrential rain. In the foreground is the floodplain of Glen Falloch, before the River Falloch flows into Loch Lomond.
19 November 2012
Miurburn around Lochindorb
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Grantown on Spey and Lochindorb
Moorland around Lochindorb, Speyside, taken by David Palmar. Muirburn is a management practice in which patches of moorland are burned in rotation, leaving long heather for Red Grouse to nest in and encouraging the growth of short grass for grouse to eat. It is a controversial practice, because it realises carbon into the atmosphere.
18 March 2022
Moorland around Lochindob
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Grantown on Spey and Lochindorb
Moorland around Lochindob, Speyside, taken by David Palmar. Lochindorb Castle is on the left.
18 March 2022
View north from Dumyat over the Ochil Hills
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Stirlingshire - Dumyat
View north from Dumyat, showing land use on the Ochil Hills, with a new road and coniferous plantations in the valley of the Menstrie Burn and the Third Inchna Burn.
14 September 2020
Raven Craig and the cairn, Carrifran Wildwood, Moffat
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Carrifran Wildwood
Raven Craig and the cairn with the Carrifran Burn, Carrifran Wildwood, Moffat
17 September 2020
Games Gill and Firthhope Rigg, Carrifran Wildwood, Moffat
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Carrifran Wildwood
Looking up the valley of the Carrifran Burn towards Games Gill, Carrifran Wildwood, Moffat, with Raven Craig on the left, Firthhope Rigg in the middle, and Gupe Craig on the right.
17 September 2020
Muir burn, Glenshee
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Glenshee - Scenery and Mountain hares in winter
Muir burn, seen from Glenshee. The heather is delberately set alight in winter, to create a patchwork of different ages of heather, so that Red grouse can have areas of long heather to nest in, and also areas of short heather to eat. This practice is now seen by many as doubtful, as it reduces the vegetation on the hills, which drain more quickly and flooding downstream is the result. It also dmages peat, promoting the release of carbon dioxide, the principal greenhouse gas.
