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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
Waxwing on Rose hips
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Glasgow - Wildlife and Wildlife Habitat
Waxwing (Bombycilla garrulus) on Rose hips, which were slightly too big for them to swallow whole, so they preferred smaller Berberis and Cotoneaster berries, Glasgow. Its crop is bulging with berries, which they gobble at an astounding rate of several every minute.
11 December 2012
Waxwing on Berberis
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Glasgow - Wildlife and Wildlife Habitat
Waxwing (Bombycilla garrulus) hanging upside down to get at Berberis berries, Glasgow
11 December 2012
Feeding Tree Sparrow, Loch Spynie
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RSPB Loch Spynie
Adult Tree Sparrow (Passer montanus) at a feeding station by Loch Spynie, taken by David Palmar.
21 March 2022
Blue Tit with sunflower seed in its beak, Glasgow
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Glasgow - Kelvindale
A Blue tit (Cyanistes caeruleus) with a sunflower heart in its beak. The bird visits a feeder for a few seconds, grabs a seed, then retreats to a bush where it can consume the seed safely. Taken by David Palmar in a Kelvindale, Glasgow garden. behind the bird is a hanging nest or resting hole.
30 January 2022
Slices of white bread on the ice, Forth and Clyde Canal, Maryhill
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Glasgow - Kelvin Walkway, Forth and Clyde Canal, Dawsholm and Garscube
Half a white loaf thrown out on to the icy Forth and Clyde Canal in Maryhill, taken by David Palmar. Such supplementary feeding may save some birds from starvation in winter, but it is much better to feed them with grain, or wholemeal bread, as white bread is not good for them and can clog up their insides.
03 January 2021
Sea urchin shell in Herring gull nest
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Firth of Clyde - Ailsa Craig birds (except Gannets)
A broken sea urchin (Echinoidea) shell in a nest on Ailsa Craig, evidence of what a Herring gull (Larus argentatus) was feeding its chicks.
01 July 2007
Skylark, Kirkbuster, Stronsay
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Orkney - Stronsay
Skylark (Alauda arvensis), Kirkbuster, Stronsay, Orkney, with food in its beak, showing evidence of breeding
08 July 2019
Red Admiral butterflies on a Turkey Oak trunk, Millport
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Firth of Clyde - Millport
Group of Red Admiral (Vanessa atalanta) butterflies sippig sap running down the trunk of a Turkey oak (Quercus cerris) tree in the grounds of the Cathedral of the Isles, Millport
