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Sucked eggs, Lake of Menteith
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CEP - Stirlingshire and East Dunbartonshire
Sucked eggs of Grey heron (Ardea cinerea), Pheasant (Phasianus colchicus), Wood pigeon (Columba palumbus) and Blackbird (Turdus merula) indicating the presence of a predator, scanned from a slide taken by CE Palmar at the Lake of Menteith, Stirlingshire
30 May 1985
Moss carder bumblebee on Bird's Foot Trefoil, North Uist
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Balranald and western North Uist
Moss carder bumblebee (Bombus muscorum) on Bird's Foot Trefoil (Lotus corniculatus), Balranald, North Uist. More frequent in the north and west of Scotland, this bee can be found in flower-rich habitats. The abdomen is usually paler than the thorax, appearing almost blonde in some individuals, while the thorax is often a deep ginger colour, darker than the Common Carder.
29 May 2017
Bittern chick with eggs scanned in greyscale
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CEP - Norfolk
Bittern (Botaurus stellaris) chicks with eggs, taken in Hickling Broad in May 1939. Scanned from a slide taken by CE Palmar. Bitterns only have a single brood each year. Being a scanned image there is no metadata stored with the image, so the location and the date taken were interpreted from his notebooks and are accurate to within a few miles and a few days respectively.
12 May 1939
Oystercatcher nest, Strachur
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CEP - Argyllshire
Oystercatcher (Haematopus ostralegus) nest with a clutch of 3 eggs in Strachur, Argyll and Bute. Scanned from slide taken by CE Palmar
28 November 2016
Common Gull eggs, Loch Gair
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CEP - Loch Gair
Common Gull (Larus canus) nest with a clutch of 3 eggs, on the banks of Loch Gair, Argyllshire. Scanned from a slide taken by CE Palmar
15 February 2017
Bird's Foot Trefoil, Allt Mhuic, Loch Arkaig
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Allt Mhuic Loch Arkaig
Bird's Foot Trefoil (Lotus corniculatus) on Butterfly Conservation Scotland's nature reserve at Allt Mhuic, Loch Arkaig, taken by David Palmar
30 May 2023
Bird's Foot Trefoil, Allt Mhuic, Loch Arkaig
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Allt Mhuic Loch Arkaig
Bird's Foot Trefoil (Lotus corniculatus) on Butterfly Conservation Scotland's nature reserve at Allt Mhuic, Loch Arkaig, taken by David Palmar
30 May 2023
Eggs on the Northern Brown Argus butterfly on Common Rock Rose, Grantown-on-Spey
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Grantown on Spey and Lochindorb
Eggs on the Northern Brown Argus (Aricia artaxerxes) butterfly laid on its caterpillar food plant Common Rock Rose (Helianthemum nummularium) near Grantown-on-Spey taken by David Palmar
25 June 2023
Northern Brown Argus butterfly on Bird's Foot Trefoil near Grantown -on-Spey
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Grantown on Spey and Lochindorb
Northern Brown Argus (Aricia artaxerxes) butterfly showing its underwing on Bird's Foot Trefoil (Lotus corniculatus) near Grantown -on-Spey, taken by David Palmar
25 June 2023
Bird's Foot Trefoil, Cochno
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West Dunbartonshire and Clydebank
Bird's Foot Trefoil (Lotus corniculatus), Cochno, taken by David Palmar