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May 2013
Wood Warbler
- 09/05/2013
- MIKE THROWER
- Ardnamuchin
- Highland
October 2012
Arctic Redpoll
- 01/10/2012
- MIKE THROWER
- Unst Shetland
- Shetland
- Great bird
- and approachable.
January 2013
Harbour Heron 2
- Grey Heron
- 26/01/2013
- Ian Gourlay
- Harbour
- St Andrews
- Fife
- Picked up some nice backlit detail here
- another second and he was off across the harbour again.
January 2013
Harbour Heron
- Grey Heron
- 26/01/2013
- Ian Gourlay
- Harbour
- St Andrews
- Fife
- This one's quite regular around the harbour and surrounding reefs at low tide.
January 2013
Harbour Heron 3
- Grey Heron
- 26/01/2013
- Ian Gourlay
- Harbour
- St Andrews
- Fife
- Dinosaur/Pterodactyl ancestry a bit evident here? Wonderfully graceful fliers once under way
- but sometimes clumsy flappers getting off the ground.
May 2013
Leucistic Oystercatcher
- 13/05/2013
- John Chapman
- Aberdeen
- North-east Scotland
December 2012
Fulmar
- 18/12/2012
- Ian Gourlay
- St Andrews
- Fife
- Shows the down canted beak of the fulmar and its chubby little body. A true seabird
- doesn't scavenge landfills and ploughed fields like many gulls.
December 2012
Robin
- melophilus (British)
- 01/12/2012
- Ian Gourlay
- West bank of Loch Leven - by the harbour.
- Perth and Kinross
- Looking pugnacious
- only about four feet away at the freshwater harbour for angling boats
- Loch Leven.
December 2012
Portrait - Robin
- Robin
- melophilus (British)
- 01/12/2012
- Ian Gourlay
- Loch Leven
- Kinross.
- Perth and Kinross
- Included to show the whiskers on the bird's face - before this shot
- I hadn't realised they had these.
December 2012
Heron
- Grey
- 18/12/2012
- Ian Gourlay
- Shore
- St Andrews
- Fife
- Hunched and shivering at the foot of the cliffs
- he looked sorry for himself in the cold wind.
April 2013
Immature Herring Gull
- Herring Gull
- 25/04/2013
- Ian Gourlay
- St Andrews
- Fife
- Young birds carry their immature plumage for up to two seasons.
April 2013
Greater Scaup
- 14/04/2013
- Davie Abraham
- Auchenharvie
- Saltcoats
- Ayrshire
