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Blue sky over Tinto, South Lanarkshire
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South Lanarkshire
Blue sky over Tinto, South Lanarkshire, famous for its red Felsite rock, with which many roads in Lanarkshire are surfaced, and its periglacial stone stripes.
10 April 2016
Periglacial geomorphology on a Hoy hill
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Orkney - North Hoy
This hill on north Hoy illustrates either periglacial geomorphology - solifluction terraces, stone stripes or perhaps a mixture of both on the hill top, above a steep gullied slope and a field of Buttercups (Ranunculus sp.)
06 July 2013
Svensson's Copper Underwing Moth Caterpillar, Great Cumbrae
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Firth of Clyde - Great Cumbrae
Probable Svensson's Copper Underwing or possibly Copper Underwing Moth Caterpillar (Amphipyra pyramidea), from which it was only distinguished in the 1960s. Taken near the Gowk Stone on Great Cumbrae by David Palmar
18 June 2022
Small Heath butterfly on Buttercup, Great Cumbrae
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Firth of Clyde - Great Cumbrae
Small Heath (Coenonympha pamphilus) butterfly on Buttercup (Ranunculus sp.), Great Cumbrae, taken by David Palmar
18 June 2022
Stone loach
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Loch Lomond - South Loch Lomond
Stone Loach (Barbatula barbatula), River Endrick, cauight by electrofishing by Glasgow University Zoology students while trying to catch River Lampreys.
05 April 2012
Cinnabar Moth caterpillar, Hamiltonhill Claypits
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Glasgow - North (Ruchill, Hamiltonhill, Forth and Clyde Canal Glasgow Branch)
Cinnabar Moth (Tyria jacobaeae) caterpillar feeding on Common Ragwort (Jacobaea vulgaris), Hamiltonhill Claypits Local Nature Reserve, Glasgow
10 July 2018
CEP under bridge, Burn of Edramucky, Ben Lawers
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CEP - Perthshire
CE Palmar under a bridge over the Burn of Edramucky on the road to Lochan na Lairige, south-west of Ben Lawers, over looking Loch Tay. Scanned from slide taken by CE Palmar.
22 May 1976
Old Brig o' Dee, Balmoral
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CEP - Aberdeenshire
Old Brig o' Dee, Balmoral, originally built in the 1500s but was almost all rebuilt in the early 1700s and again in the mid 1800s in order to widen it from 14ft actoss to 26ft. Scanned from a slide taken by CE Palmar.
30 September 1974
Croft field strips and fallow on the machair, North Uist
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Western Isles - Balranald and western North Uist
Traditional extensive croft field strips on the machair at RSPB Balranald, North Uist, showing strip fields of mixed barley and oats, and a fallow section on the right. Note how wildlfowers have been left rather than killed by herbicides, which provides nectar for insects and seeds for birds.
08 August 2017
Shoulder-stripe moth, Kilmartin
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Argyllshire - Mid Argyllshire
Shoulder-stripe moth (Anticlea badiata) in Kilmartin Glen, Argyllshire
