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Common lizard, Great Cumbrae
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Great Cumbrae, Firth of Clyde
Common lizard (Lacerta vivipara), Great Cumbrae, taken by David Palmar. This one is a gravid female as can be seen from its shape!
18 June 2022
Green Dock Beetle
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RSPB Loch Lomond
A gravid female Green Dock Beetle (Gastrophysa viridula), RSPB Loch Lomond
29 May 2016
Hen harrier, Burgar Hill
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Evie
Female Hen harrier (Circus cyaneus) flying over Burgar Hill, Orkney
14 May 2013
Hen harrier food pass
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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
Blackbird on Rose hips
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Glasgow - Wildlife and Wildlife Habitat
Blackbird (Turdus merula) female eating a Rose hip, Glasgow. Many Blackbirds are resident, but in winter their numbers are swelled by visitors from their breeding grounds in the north, such as Scandinavia.
11 December 2012
Osprey family on nest, Loch of the lowes
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Loch of the Lowes SWT Reserve
The entire Osprey (Pandion haliaetus) family of 2003 at the Loch of the Lowes SWT Reserve. The female and three young are on the nest, and the male is landing with a fish.
06 July 2003
female Blackcap in conifer tree in winter, Glasgow
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Glasgow - Wildlife and Wildlife Habitat
Blackcaps, while not common in the winter in Scotland, have become commoner than they used to be in winter. They may be migrants from Scandinavia, while "our" breeding blackcaps have migrated to warmer climes.
15 December 2010
Pochard, RSPB Saltholme
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Northumbria and Durham
A female Pochard (Aythya ferina) swimming at RSPB Saltholme, County Durham
01 March 2024
Long-tailed Duck, Lossiemouth
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Lossiemouth
A female Long-tailed Duck (Clangula hymalis) belonging to the family Anatidae, diving into the River Lossie, Lossiemouth
29 January 2024
Long-tailed Duck, Lossiemouth
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Lossiemouth
A femaie Long-tailed Duck (Clangula hymenalis) belonging to the family Anatidae, on the River Lossie near Lossiemouth.