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Female Pied Flycatcher, RSPB Inversnaid
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Loch Lomond - Inversnaid
A female Pied Flycatcher (Ficedula hypoleuca) holding an insect in its beak while perched on a tree branch in Inversnaid, on the east bank of Loch Lomond in Scotland. Female Pied Flycatchers are characterised by a pale brown colour. The species is insectivorous and catches insects while flying, as its name suggests. Description by Ilaria Lonero.
17 June 2009
Female Pied Flycatcher, Inversnaid
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Loch Lomond - Inversnaid
A female Pied Flycatcher (Ficedula hypoleuca) peeping out of a Schwegler nest box in Inversnaid, on the east bank of Loch Lomond in Scotland. Pied Flycatchers are hole-nesting birds and readily use human-provided nest boxes. They are migratory and are found in UK only during the breeding season, when they arrive after spending the winter in western Africa.
Description by Ilaria Lonero
17 June 2009
Male Pied Flycatcher, RSPB Inversnaid
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Loch Lomond - Inversnaid
A male Pied Flycatcher (Ficedula hypoleuca) perched on a tree branch in Inversnaid, on the east bank of Loch Lomond in Scotland. Male Pied Flycatchers are black above and white below, with white patches on the wings, on the tail sides and on the forehead. The term hypoleuca, in fact, comes from the Greek hupo, "below", and leukos, "white". Description by Ilaria Lonero.
17 June 2009
Pied flycatcher male, Inversnaid
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Loch Lomond - Inversnaid
A male Pied Flycatcher (Ficedula hypoleuca) perched on a tree branch at RSPB Inversnaid, on the east bank of Loch Lomond in Scotland. Male Pied Flycatchers are black above and white below, with white patches on the wings, on the tail sides and on the forehead. The term hypoleuca, in fact, comes from the Greek hupo, "below", and leukos, "white". Description by Ilaria Lonero.
17 June 2009
Male Pied Flycatcher, Inversnaid
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Loch Lomond - Inversnaid
A male Pied Flycatcher (Ficedula hypoleuca) entering a Schwegler nest box at RSPB Inversnaid, on the east bank of Loch Lomond in Scotland. Pied Flycatchers are hole-nesting birds and readily use human-provided nest boxes. They are migratory and are found in the UK only during the breeding season, when they arrive after spending the winter in western Africa. Description by Ilaria Lonero.
17 June 2009
Pied Flycatcher nest box with eggs, SCENE, Rowardennan
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Loch Lomond - East Loch Lomond
A clutch of Pied Flycatcher (Ficedula hypoleuca) eggs at the Scottish Centre for Ecology and the Natural Environment (SCENE), in Rowardennan, on the eastern shore of Loch Lomond in Scotland. British Pied Flycatchers typically lay a single clutch of 6-7 eggs during April-May although replacement clutches may be laid if the first clutch is lost early in the season. The incubation lasts for 13-15 days, and the young fledge at 16-17 days after hatching. Fledglings and adults remain close to the natal area for around 45 days, and adults begin migration towards Africa between mid-July and mid-August. Description by Ilaria Lonero.
15 May 2011
Female Pied Flycatcher at Rowardennan, Loch Lomond
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Loch Lomond - East Loch Lomond
A female Pied Flycatcher (Ficedula hypoleuca) perched on a tree branch at the Scottish Centre for Ecology and the Natural Environment (SCENE), in Rowardennan, on the eastern shore of Loch Lomond in Scotland. Female Pied Flycatchers are characterised by a pale brown colour. Description by Ilaria Lonero.
11 May 2011
Hen harrier, Burgar Hill
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Orkney - Evie
Female Hen harrier (Circus cyaneus) flying over Burgar Hill, Orkney
14 May 2013
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
Blackbird on Rose hips
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Glasgow - Wildlife and Wildlife Habitat
Blackbird (Turdus merula) female eating a Rose hip, Glasgow. Many Blackbirds are resident, but in winter their numbers are swelled by visitors from their breeding grounds in the north, such as Scandinavia.
