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Feathers of a raptor kill, Jura
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Jura
Feathers, probably of a gull killed and plucked by a raptor, perhaps an eagle, Jura
25 August 2018
Sparrowhawk portrait, Hogganfield Loch
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Glasgow - Hogganfield Loch
Sparrowhawk (Accipiter nisus) caught at Hogganfield Loch during the BTO (British Trust for Ornithology) and Friends of Glasgow's Local Nature Reserves ringing event.
19 September 2021
Young Peregrine Falcons, Falls of Clyde
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South Lanarkshire - Falls of Clyde birds and animals
Young Peregrine Falcons (Falco peregrinus) sitting in the nest at the Falls of Clyde
14 June 2003
Hen harrier, Burgar Hill
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Orkney - Evie
Female Hen harrier (Circus cyaneus) flying over Burgar Hill, Orkney
14 May 2013
Male Hen harrier sky dancing
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Dumfriesshire - Langholm Moor
Male Hen harrier (Circus cyaneus) sky dancing display flight, Langholm Moor. He flips over to be upside down at the top of the display, showing his white underside instead of the usual grey back.
The display takes place mainly as the pair form or renew their pair bond in March to May. Later on in the season, most of the male's energy is taken up not in display but with hunting to provide for the female (or more than one!) and the rapidly growing youngsters.
This image was created by combining many shots taken in rapid succession to form a composite image, which gives an impression of the sky dancing display.
19 April 2014
Male Hen harrier sky dancing
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Dumfriesshire - Langholm Moor
Male Hen harrier (Circus cyaneus) sky dancing display flight, Langholm Moor. He flips over to be upside down at the top of the display, showing his white underside instead of the usual grey back.
The display takes place mainly as the pair form or renew their pair bond in March to May. Later on in the season, most of the male's energy is taken up not in display but with hunting to provide for the female (or more than one!) and the rapidly growing youngsters.
This image was created by combining many shots taken in rapid succession to form a composite image, which gives an impression of the sky dancing display. It is cropped from the full display shot to show where the male flips over at the top of the display.
19 April 2014
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
Long-eared owl
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Perthshire
Long-eared owl sitting on a fence on the Perthshire moors in the early evening.
30 August 2009
Short-eared owl
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Perthshire
Short-eared owl sitting on a fence on the Perthshire moors.
They can be seen hunting over the moors in the early evening.
30 August 2009
Golden Eagle's pellets
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CEP - Photos of Golden Eagles by Charles Eric Palmar
Golden Eagle (Aquila chrysaetos) pellets. The eagle, in common with other birds of prey, is unable to digest hair, bones or feathers, accumulations of which are ejected from the crop in the form of castings or pellets. This pictures shows three typical ones and an unusual one composed entirely of lamb's wool. Analysis of such pellets gives an accurate index of the bird's food, which consists chiefly of rabbits and hares in the grassy districts of the western mainland, and grouse and hares in the rolling heather moorlands of central, eastern and northern areas of the HIghlands. Carrion - usually in the shape of a dead sheep or deer - forms a major food item in all districts. Nearly all of the relatively small number of lambs taken come into this latter category, as casualties are often heavy from the treacherous spring weather in the mountains.
