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Greenland White-fronted Geese flying near Loch Lomond
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Loch Lomond - RSPB Loch Lomond
Greenland White-fronted Geese flying near Loch Lomond, including one with a neck collar
29 December 2008
Greenland White-fronted Geese flying near Loch Lomond
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Loch Lomond - RSPB Loch Lomond
Greenland White-fronted Geese flying near Loch Lomond, including one with a neck collar
29 December 2008
Greylag geese, Birsay, Orkney
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Orkney - Birsay
Greylag geese (Anser anser) near the Loch of Banks, Birsay, Orkney. Two of them have neck collars which enables them to be more easily tracked than just having leg rings, which are difficult to read.
07 July 2013
White Fronted Geese, Loch Sween
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Argyllshire - Loch Sween and Loch Melfort
White Fronted Geese, Loch Sween, showing a neck collar which enables the bird to be tracked on migration by observation, being easier to read than a leg ring, which it also carries. To read the leg ring, the bird would need to be caught.
07 November 2010
Greenland White-fronted Geese flying near Loch Lomond
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Loch Lomond - RSPB Loch Lomond
Greenland White-fronted Geese coming in to land near the Endrick mouth marshes, Loch Lomond. If you look closely at the leading goose, you will see that it has a neck collar, which has a combination of letters and numbers on it, which enables it to be tracked on migration.
29 December 2008
Volcanic plugs of Dumgoyach, Park Hill, Dumgoyne and Dumfoyn
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Campsie and Fintry Hills
The volcanic plugs of Dumgoyach, Park Hill, Dumgoyne and Dumfoyn from Campsie Dene Road, Blanefield. These old Carboniferous volcanic remnants are part of the Clyde Plateau Lavas formation and are believed to be about 330 million years old.
26 December 2023
Volcanic plugs of Dumgoyne and Dumfoyn from Campsie Dene Road, Blanefield
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Campsie and Fintry Hills
The volcanic plugs of Dumgoyne and Dumfoyn from Campsie Dene Road, Blanefield. These old Carboniferous volcanic remnants are part of the Clyde Plateau Lavas formation and are believed to be about 330 million years old.
26 December 2023
Yellow Flag Iris and Duncryne, RSPB Loch Lomond
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Loch Lomond - RSPB Loch Lomond
Yellow Flag Iris (Iris pseudacorus) in Twenty Acres - compartment 10, RSPB Loch Lomond, a habitat suitable for butterflies, taken by David Palmar. In the background is Duncryne, a crag and tail landform. The crag is an old volcanic neck - probably Carboniferous - and the tail, being in the lee of the hard crag rock, has escaped as much glacial erosion by the last ice age in the region of 10,000 years ago.
07 June 2023
Red-necked grebe with beak wide open, Hogganfield Loch, Glasgow
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Glasgow - Hogganfield Loch
Red-necked Grebe with its beak wide open at Hogganfield Loch, Glasgow, taken by David Palmar. This was in response to a female goosander disturbing it as it slept. The bill of a Red-necked Grebe is yellow and black, with the black tip fading during the non-breeding season.
Red-necked Grebe (Podiceps grisegena) seen preening on Hogganfield Loch, Glasgow, taken by David Palmar. This adult is displaying its summer plumage with its rusty-red coloured neck, grey/white cheeks and a black cap.
