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Osprey camp group, Loch Garten
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CEP - Speyside and Cairngorms
Osprey Camp, Loch Garten, 1965. (left to right) George Waterston (Director of RSPB Scotland), unknown volunteer, John Murray (Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum Taxidermist), Tony. A dedicated group of volunteers watching the Osprey nest 24 hours a day to ensure its safety. RSPB Scotland has been protecting Ospreys at Loch Garten since 1958 and celebrated its 60th season of 'Operation Osprey' in 2018. Scanned from a slide taken by CE Palmar. The date taken is approximate, but the month is correct.
10 March 1965
Osprey camp group Loch Garten
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CEP - Speyside and Cairngorms
Osprey Camp, Loch Garten, 1965. (left to right) Tony, John Murray (Taxidermist at Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum), Mike Everett (Assistant to George Waterston), Ian Lyster (curator of birds in the Royal Scottish Museum), Charles Cowper (Electronic engineer). A dedicated group of volunteers watching the Osprey nest 24 hours a day to ensure its safety.
RSPB Scotland has been protecting Ospreys at Loch Garten since 1958 and celebrated its 60th season of 'Operation Osprey' in 2018. Scanned from a slide taken by CE Palmar. The date taken is approximate, but the month is correct.
10 March 1965
St John's Wort, Auchlochan, South Lanarkshire
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South Lanarkshire - Auchlochan
St John's Wort (Hypericum sp.), Auchlochan, South Lanarkshire
13 July 2024
Scrapyard on River Clyde
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Doon the Watter - Glasgow to Bowling 2023
John R Adam metal processing company scrapyard on the River Clyde upstream of King George V Dock, taken by David Palmar
23 May 2023
General cargo vessel Triton and scrapyard, River Clyde
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Doon the Watter - Glasgow to Bowling 2023
General cargo vessel Triton at the John R Adam metal processing company scrapyard on the River Clyde upstream of King George V Dock, taken by David Palmar
23 May 2023
Crawler cranes and wind turbine blades, King George V Dock
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Doon the Watter - Glasgow to Bowling 2023
Liebherr and Multidocker crawler cranes, and a set of wind turbine blades at King George V Dock, Glasgow, taken by David Palmar
23 May 2023
Square-stalked St John's Wort at the Howietown Heritage and Nature Sanctuary, Old Sauchie
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Stirlingshire - Howietown and Old Sauchie
Square-stalked St John's Wort (Hypericum tetrapterum) at the Howietown Heritage and Nature Sanctuary Charitable Trust, Old Sauchie
06 August 2022
Cranes at UIE yard, 1987
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Doon the Watter - Clyde Tunnel to Erskine Bridge
Cranes at UIE yard, 1987. Formerly John Brown's shipyard, which became part of Upper Clyde Shipbuilders in 1968, then Marathon, then UIE (Union Industrielle d'Entreprise) bought the shipyard in 1980, built oil rigs for the North Sea such as this one - Conoco Vulcan - and closed it again in 2001. Scanned from a transparency taken by David Palmar.
18 September 2007
Number 736, Q4 or QE2 under construction at John Brown's shipyard in 1967
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Doon the Watter - Clyde Tunnel to Erskine Bridge
Number 736, Q4 or eventually QE2 (Queen Elizabeth the Second) as she was to be named, under construction at John Brown's shipyard in Clydebank in 1967. Scanned from a transparency taken by David Palmar.
20 September 2007
QE2 and Volnay in John Brown's fitting out basin, 1968
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Doon the Watter - Clyde Tunnel to Erskine Bridge
QE2 (Queen Elizabeth the Second) in the fitting out basin following her launch at John Brown's shipyard in Clydebank in 1968. To the left is bulk carrier Volnay, which was scrapped in 1996. Scanned from a transparency taken by David Palmar.
