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Male Goosander on Forth and Clyde Canal, Glasgow
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Glasgow - Kelvin Walkway, Forth and Clyde Canal, Dawsholm and Garscube
Male Goosander (Mergus merganser) on Forth and Clyde Canal, Glasgow, displaying with its beak pointing upwards.
09 January 2011
Goosander pair on the Forth and Clyde Canal, Glasgow
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Glasgow - Kelvin Walkway, Forth and Clyde Canal, Dawsholm and Garscube
Goosander (Mergus merganser) pair on the Forth and Clyde Canal in Maryhill, Glasgow, taken by David Palmar. The male has a dark green head and the female has a brown head, although birders often call it a redhead. The male is dispayling courting behaviour.
14 January 2023
Goosander pair on the Forth and Clyde Canal, Glasgow
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Glasgow - Kelvin Walkway, Forth and Clyde Canal, Dawsholm and Garscube
Goosander (Mergus merganser) pair on the Forth and Clyde Canal in Maryhill, Glasgow, taken by David Palmar. The male has a dark green head and the female has a brown head, although birders often call it a redhead. Immature birds of both sexes also have brown heads.
14 January 2023
Goosander pair on the Forth and Clyde Canal, Glasgow
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Glasgow - Kelvin Walkway, Forth and Clyde Canal, Dawsholm and Garscube
Goosander (Mergus merganser) pair on the Forth and Clyde Canal in Maryhill, Glasgow, taken by David Palmar. The male has a dark green head and the female has a brown head, although birders often call it a redhead. Immature birds of both sexes also have brown heads.
14 January 2023
Stockingfield Bridge construction, Forth and Clyde Canal, Glasgow
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Glasgow - Kelvin Walkway, Forth and Clyde Canal, Dawsholm and Garscube
Works beginning to create the new twin-span pedestrian, cycle and wheeling Stockingfield Bridge over the Forth and Clyde Canal in Glasgow, where the Glasgow branch of the Forth and Clyde Canal joins the main line of the canal which runs from Bowling to Grangemouth. The new bridge will promote active travel and join up communities previously divided from each other, such as Wyndford, Ruchill and Gilshochill. Taken by David Palmar
12 January 2021
Stockingfield Bridge construction, Forth and Clyde Canal, Glasgow
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Glasgow - Kelvin Walkway, Forth and Clyde Canal, Dawsholm and Garscube
Works beginning to create the new twin-span pedestrian, cycle and wheeling Stockingfield Bridge over the Forth and Clyde Canal in Glasgow, where the Glasgow branch of the Forth and Clyde Canal joins the main line of the canal which runs from Bowling to Grangemouth. The new bridge will promote active travel and join up communities previously divided from each other, such as Wyndford, Ruchill and Gilshochill. Taken by David Palmar
12 January 2021
Stockingfield Bridge construction, Forth and Clyde Canal, Glasgow
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Glasgow - Kelvin Walkway, Forth and Clyde Canal, Dawsholm and Garscube
Works beginning to create the new twin-span pedestrian, cycle and wheeling Stockingfield Bridge over the Forth and Clyde Canal in Glasgow, where the Glasgow branch of the Forth and Clyde Canal joins the main line of the canal which runs from Bowling to Grangemouth. The new bridge will promote active travel and join up communities previously divided from each other, such as Wyndford, Ruchill and Gilshochill. Taken by David Palmar
12 January 2021
Red Fox asleep beside the Forth and Clyde Canal, Glasgow
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Glasgow - Kelvin Walkway, Forth and Clyde Canal, Dawsholm and Garscube
Red Fox (Vulpes vulpes) curled up beside the Forth and Clyde Canal, Glasgow, taken by David Palmar. Red foxes do quite well in the city, where it is warmer than the countryside, and where food is in reasonable supply, either from bins, from children throwing away their excess food, or from more conventional sources, such as rodents.
12 January 2021
Black-headed Gull eating white bread on the frozen Forth and Clyde Canal, Glasgow
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Glasgow - Kelvin Walkway, Forth and Clyde Canal, Dawsholm and Garscube
Black-headed Gull (Chroicocephalus ridibundus) eating a slice of white bread on the frozen Forth and Clyde Canal in Maryhill, Glasgow, taken by David Palmar Birds become hungry in the winter when food is scare and the demands of keeping warm increase. , birds will eat whatever they can find, even if white bread is not as good for them as natural food sources.
12 January 2021
Moorhens fighting over bread on the frozen Forth and Clyde Canal, Glasgow
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Glasgow - Kelvin Walkway, Forth and Clyde Canal, Dawsholm and Garscube
Three Moorhens (Gallinula chloropus) fighting over a slice of white bread on the frozen Forth and Clyde Canal in Maryhill, Glasgow, taken by David Palmar Birds become hungry in the winter when food is scare and the demands of keeping warm increase. Birds will eat whatever they can find, even if white bread is not as good for them as natural food sources.