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Male Orange Tip butterfly on Garlic Mustard, Baron's Haugh
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North Lanarkshire - Baron's Haugh and Dalzell Woods
Male Orange Tip (Anthocharis cardamines) butterfly on Garlic Mustard (Alliaria petiolata), Baron's Haugh RSPB Reserve, taken by David Palmar
06 May 2023
Male Hen harrier sky dancing
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Dumfriesshire - Langholm Moor
Male Hen harrier (Circus cyaneus) sky dancing display flight, Langholm Moor. He flips over to be upside down at the top of the display, showing his white underside instead of the usual grey back.
The display takes place mainly as the pair form or renew their pair bond in March to May. Later on in the season, most of the male's energy is taken up not in display but with hunting to provide for the female (or more than one!) and the rapidly growing youngsters.
This image was created by combining many shots taken in rapid succession to form a composite image, which gives an impression of the sky dancing display.
19 April 2014
Male Hen harrier sky dancing
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Dumfriesshire - Langholm Moor
Male Hen harrier (Circus cyaneus) sky dancing display flight, Langholm Moor. He flips over to be upside down at the top of the display, showing his white underside instead of the usual grey back.
The display takes place mainly as the pair form or renew their pair bond in March to May. Later on in the season, most of the male's energy is taken up not in display but with hunting to provide for the female (or more than one!) and the rapidly growing youngsters.
This image was created by combining many shots taken in rapid succession to form a composite image, which gives an impression of the sky dancing display. It is cropped from the full display shot to show where the male flips over at the top of the display.
19 April 2014
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
Sardinian Warbler
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St Abb's
A male Sardinian Warbler (Sylvia melanocephala) at the Mire Loch, St Abb's. Although common in the Mediterranean, these appear only rarely in Scotland, blown in by south-easterly winds.
19 October 2013
Tree Sparrow perching
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Clackmannanshire - Alloa, Clackmannan and Black Devon
Male Tree Sparrow (Passer montanus) perching, South Alloa
19 February 2013
Tree Sparrow perching
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Clackmannanshire - Alloa, Clackmannan and Black Devon
Male Tree Sparrow (Passer montanus) perching, South Alloa
19 February 2013
Male Teal, Kinneil
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Falkirk - Bo'ness and Kinneil
Male Teal (Anas crecca) taking off, Kinneil
15 February 2013
Osprey family on nest, Loch of the lowes
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Loch of the Lowes SWT Reserve
The entire Osprey (Pandion haliaetus) family of 2003 at the Loch of the Lowes SWT Reserve. The female and three young are on the nest, and the male is landing with a fish.
06 July 2003
Male Goosander preening
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Glasgow - Hogganfield Loch
Male Goosander (Mergus merganser) preening, Hogganfield Loch
