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Magpie nest building, Kelvindale
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Glasgow - Kelvindale
Magpie (Pica pica) carrying a stick as it builds a nest in a Common Hawthorn (Crataegus monogyna) tree in a Kelvindale garden, taken by David Palmar. Magpies typically lay around four to six eggs, and tend to have one brood a year. The nest itself is usually in a tree (up to 25m) or in thick cover such as in jagged hedgerows.
16 March 2022
Gannet in flight with nesting material, Ailsa Craig
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Ailsa Craig Gannets
Northern Gannet (Morus bassanus) in flight with nesting material, in this case grass plucked from an area above the gannetry, Ailsa Craig
Black-headed gull (Chroicocephalus ridibundus) with nesting material at Leighton Moss in Lancashire
24 April 2004
Dipper, Falls of Clyde
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South Lanarkshire
Dipper (Cinclus cinclus) collecting nesting material at Falls of Clyde
07 September 2003
Great Crested Grebe, Loch of Lowes
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Loch of the Lowes SWT Reserve
Great Crested Grebe (Podiceps cristatus), giving nesting material to its mate at Loch of the Lowes
05 July 2004
Osprey, Loch of Lowes
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Perthshire
Osprey (Pandion haliaetus), bringing nesting material back to the nest at Loch of the Lowes
06 July 2003
Hooded crow family on nest, Kintyre
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CEP - Kintyre
The stick nest of a Hooded crow (Corvus cornix) with an adult feeding its three young, south Kintyre. Scanned from a slide taken by CE Palmar in Glendale, Mull of Kintyre1984
18 May 1984
Young Hooded crows in a nest, Kintyre
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CEP - Kintyre
Three young Hooded crows (Corvus cornix) in a nest in Glenadale, Mull of Kintyre, in 1984, scanned from a slide taken by CE Palmar. The slide illustrates the nest site in a Silver Birch (Betula pendula) tree.
18 May 1984
Gannet gathering nesting material, Troup Head
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Troup Head, Aberdeenshire
Northern Gannet (Morus bassanus) gathering nesting material, Troup Head
05 July 2008
Gannets disputing nesting material, Bass Rock
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Bass Rock
Two Northern Gannets (Morus bassanus) in a dispute over nesting material, Bass Rock