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Floating Sweet Grass, RSPB Loch Lomond
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Loch Lomond - RSPB Loch Lomond
Floating Sweet Grass (Glyceria fluitans), a plant in the family Poaceae which is often located in marshes. In Compartment 30 located near the Airey Woodland Trail, RSPB Loch Lomond, taken by David Palmar
04 July 2023
Cormorants on a floating island, RSPB Lochwinnoch
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Renfrewshire - Lochwinnoch
Cormorants (Phalacrocorax carbo) on an artificial raft or floating island at RSPB Lochwinnoch, created for conservation purposes, taken by David Palmar. Mostly these are immature Cormorants with a white breast and a generally greyer appearance, but with one darker adult.
12 December 2021
Black-headed gulls in winter and in summer plumage, Black Devon Wetlands
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Clackmannanshire - Alloa, Clackmannan and Black Devon
A Black-headed gull (Chroicocephalus ridibundus) still in winter plumage (left) and one already in summer (breeding) plumage (right) swim in front of a floating island, Black Devon Wetlands, Clackmannanshire
23 March 2019
Little grebe, Lennoxtown
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CEP - Stirlingshire and East Dunbartonshire
Little Grebe (Tachybaptus ruficollis) nesting on a body of water near Lennoxtown in East Dumbartonshire. Little grebes are the UK's smallest water diving bird, only around half the size of a moorhen. They nest on floating platforms, raising clutches of 4-7 young. Scanned from a slide taken by CE Palmar in 1981.
13 September 1981
Grey heron on floating island, Hogganfield Loch
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Glasgow - Hogganfield Loch
A Grey Heron (Ardea cinerea) takes advantage of the safety offered by a Biohaven - a floating island on Hogganfield Loch, Glasgow. These islands were partly the result of action by the Friends of Glasgow's Local Nature Reserves, and are designed for the safety of roosting and breeding birds.
