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An ancient tree root in a drainage ditch
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Sutherland - Forsinard and Halladale
An ancient tree root in a drainage ditch on the Dubh Lochans Trail, Forsinard Flows RSPB Nature Reserve. Trees grew in warmer, drier climates of the postglacial era, then cooler wetter conditions hastened their demise and promoted the growth of peat.
23 May 2011
Ancient tree roots in Loch Droma
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Ullapool, Coigach and Inverpolly
Ancient tree roots exposed by the low water level in Loch Droma caused by the drought in 2012
19 June 2012
76-1133 Scots pine, Loch Morlich
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CEP - Speyside and Cairngorms
Scanned from a slide taken by CE Palmar
26 September 1976
An ancient and apparently healthy Juniper in Abernethy Forest
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Nethybridge and Dulnain Bridge
An ancient and apparently healthy Juniper (Juniperus communis) in Abernethy Forest near Nethybridge, where a minority of the Junper plants are dead or dying, possibly infected with the fungal disease Phytophthora sp. The ancient nature of this bush can be deduced from the think gnarled trunk.
28 January 2019
Himalayan Balsam plants pulled up and hanging in a tree to dry out
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Loch Lomond - RSPB Loch Lomond
Conservation in action - pulled up plants of Himalayan Balsam (Impatiens glandulifera), an invasive non-native species (INNS), hanging in a tree to dry so that their roots dry out and the plant dies.
26 July 2018
Himalayan Balsam plants pulled up and hanging in a tree to dry out
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Loch Lomond - RSPB Loch Lomond
Conservation in action - pulled up plants of Himalayan Balsam (Impatiens glandulifera), an invasive non-native species (INNS), hanging in a tree to dry so that their roots dry out and the plant dies.
26 July 2018
C E Palmar - A record Golden Eagle scots pine tree eyrie 19 feet
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CEP - Photos of Golden Eagles by Charles Eric Palmar
C E Palmar - A record Golden Eagle scots pine tree eyrie 19 feet deep and used for over 60 years, taken in 1953.
22 October 2010
Uprooted tree, Linlithgow Loch
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West Lothian - Linlithgow and Beecraigs
Uprooted tree which has fallen over in a recent storm at Linlithgow Loch, taken by David Palmar. Storms are becoming more frequent in this era of climate change, and we will have to pay for the damage.
20 February 2020
Robin on tree root
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Stirlingshire - Aberfoyle
Robin (Erithacus rubecula) on a tree root, Aberfoyle
16 December 2014
Wildlife walk to Malls Mire Jackdaw roost
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Glasgow - Malls Mire and Richmond Park
An Urban Roots wildlife walk, led by Tom Cooper and Sandy McNeill at Malls Mire, Toryglen, to see hundreds of Jackdaws (Corvus monedula) coming in to roost in the trees as dusk falls.
