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female Brambling on frosty branch, Glasgow
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Glasgow - Wildlife and Wildlife Habitat
A female Brambling (Fringilla montifringilla) on frosty branch, Glasgow. Bramblings are unusual visitors to Glasgow gardens. However in 2010, in association with a long period of very cold weather in December, there were large numbers of Bramblings in Scotland, and they were attracted to gardens by winter feeding.
22 December 2010
female Brambling on frosty branch, Glasgow
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Glasgow - Wildlife and Wildlife Habitat
Female Brambling (Fringilla montifringilla) on frosty branch, Glasgow. Bramblings are unusual visitors to Glasgow gardens. However in 2010, in association with a long period of very cold weather in December, there were large numbers of Bramblings in Scotland, and they were attracted to gardens by winter feeding.
22 December 2010
female Brambling on frosty branch, Glasgow
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Glasgow - Kelvindale
A female Brambling (Fringilla montifringilla) on a frosty branch in a Glasgow garden. It has been pecking at the frost to try and get some water.
13 December 2010
female Brambling on frosty branch, Glasgow
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Glasgow - Wildlife and Wildlife Habitat
A female Brambling (Fringilla montifringilla) on a frosty branch in a Glasgow garden. Bramblings are winter visitors to this country.
13 December 2010
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.
11 December 2012
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 Brambling on frosty branch, Glasgow
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Glasgow - Wildlife and Wildlife Habitat
A male Brambling (Fringilla montifringilla) on a frosty branch in a Glasgow garden. Bramblings are winter visitors to this country. They leave the UK in spring to breed in Finland, Scandinavia and Russia. Their numbers fluctuate year to year depending on the availability of beech mast in the breeding grounds.
13 December 2010
female Blackcap in conifer tree in winter, Glasgow
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Glasgow - Wildlife and Wildlife Habitat
Blackcaps, while not common in the winter in Scotland, have become commoner than they used to be in winter. They may be migrants from Scandinavia, while "our" breeding blackcaps have migrated to warmer climes.
