Updates to the photoscot.co.uk Nature Stock Image Library - look here to see what's new
13 February 2012 - Photos of birds around Musselburgh uploaded, showing waders such as Dunlin, Bar-tailed Godwit, and Redshank, a Pink-footed Goose, Snow Buntings, Twite, Long-tailed Duck and a Smew at Tranent taken on a recent RSPB Glasgow mid-week excursion.
12 February 2012 - Photos of a walk in Glen Doll with the Angus Ranger uploaded, showing the snowy mountain and coniferous forest scenery, and some Common Crossbills and a Red Squirrel taken in very poor light conditions.
6 February 2012 - Photos of the Lecht area uploaded, showing the scenery, the skiiing area, snow buntings and red grouse
5 February 2012 - Photos of Hogganfield Loch in Glasgow uploaded, showing Goosanders, Goldeneye, Tufted Duck and Greylag Goose.
4 February 2012 - Photos of the Campsie Fells, Fintry Hills and Gargunnock Hills uploaded, including Crossbills, Greylag Geese and Blackface sheep.
3 February 2012 - Date of a photography walk at Mugdock Country Park, now confirmed as Sunday 1st April 2012, and with details similar to previous walks, e.g on the Mugdock page from March 2011.
A further photography walk will be held at the same times and same place on Sunday 14th October 2012.
20 January 2012 - Uploaded pictures of birds and scenery is Islay and Jura taken from the Islay Ferry.
26 September 2011 - uploaded some new information about the performance of our solar PV panels - Solar Panels page.
22 September 2011 - Uploaded images of North Harris, including flowers of the machair at Hùisnis.
5 August 2011 - Information about two photography walks as part of the Kirkintilloch Canal Festival on 23rd and 25th August uploaded to the Events Page.
2 August 2011 - Uploaded a story about a Seatrek day trip to St Kilda
2 August 2011 - Finished uploading 135 pictures of a fantastic day trip to St Kilda on Seatrek's MV Lochlann from Miabhaig, Lewis.
1 August 2011 - More St Kilda pictures uploaded, and a new graph of solar panel output has been added to the Solar Panels page
31 July 2011 - Started to upload over 100 images of St Kilda, and the 4 hour boat trip to St Kilda from Miabhaig, Lewis on Seatrek's MV Lochlann. (Many more images of St Kilda still to go.)
21 July 2011 - Swimming beaver images uploaded into story about the Scottish Beaver Trial project in Knapdale
21 July 2011 - Solar Panels page updated at last!
7 June 2011 - Several more scenery images uploaded into story about Lewis
31 May 2011 - New stories (red dots on the map) created for North Harris and for Lewis and several more pictures uploaded.
10 May 2011 - Updated figures for generation by our PV solar panel installation have been put on the
29 March 2011 - Images of Great Spotted Woodpecker, Greylag goose, Chaffinch, Jackdaw and Common toad in Mugdock Country Park uploaded.
25 March 2011 - Updated figures for generation by our PV solar panel installation have been put on the Solar Panels page.
28 February 2011 - Updated figures for generation by our PV solar panel installation have been put on the Solar Panels page.
23 February 2011 - New images of Common frog (Rana temporaria) and Froglife staff and Glasgow University students and staff renewing a pond liner at the Glasgow Univeristy wildlife garden.
14 February 2011 - New images of the Islay ferry, otter, blue tit, goosander, red-breasted merganser, eiders, oyster catchers, great northern diver, and red-throated diver in North Kintyre uploaded.
9 February 2011 - A new page about my father Charles Eric Palmar and his pictures has been added, based on what was on on the old photoscot.co.uk site.
Internal links to some photos taken on Wild Caledonia wildlife holidays have been updated.
In addition, these photo captions link externally to the Wild Caledonia wildlife holidays website.
2 February 2011 - 89 photos of the Arden Grange and Siberian Husky Club of GB Aviemore Sled Dog Rally Sunday 23 January 2011 uploaded. that's all the pictures of this event uploaded now.
If your image appears on this site and you are unhappy about that, simply contact us quoting the image ID number and it will be removed.
1 February 2011 - 147 photos of the Arden Grange and Siberian Husky Club of GB Aviemore Sled Dog Rally Sunday 23 January 2011 uploaded.
More still to be processed and uploaded.
31 January 2011 - 44 photos of the Arden Grange and Siberian Husky Club of GB Aviemore Sled Dog Rally Sunday 23 January 2011 uploaded.
Many pictures from Sunday are still to be processed and uploaded.
You can search by Competitor number to find your own picture, e.g. You could type "Competitor 41" into the search box.
If you don't find your photo, you could also try searching for Competitor number unknown which describes any photo where the number on the bib was unreadable.
27 January 2011 - 95 photos of the Arden Grange and Siberian Husky Club of GB Aviemore Sled Dog Rally Saturday 22 January 2011 uploaded.
You can search by Competitor number to find your own picture, e.g. You could type "Competitor 31" into the search box.
If you don't find your photo, you could also try searching for Competitor number unknown which describes any photo where the number on the bib was unreadable.
21 January 2011 - Details of a photography course at Glasgow University on Saturday 19th March 2011 are on a new Glasgow University Digital Wildlife Photography page
21 January 2011 - Details of a photography walk at Mugdock Country park on Sunday 27th March 2011 are on a new Mugdock page
20 January 2011 - started a page about our new PV Solar Panel installation in Glasgow.
19 January 2011 - added information explaining how to use this site to the Further Information index page.
19 January 2011 - pictures of Hogganfield Loch
11 January 2011 - A one-day digital wildlife photography walk at Mugdock Country Park on Sunday 27 March 2011 added to the Events Page.
18 January 2011 - pictures of Kelvingrove Museum, Forth and Clyde Canal Kelvin Aqueduct and River Kelvin and a Collared Dove uploaded.
17 January 2011 - several pictures of Goosanders uploaded.
16 January 2011 - Welcome to the new version of photoscot.co.uk.
For the past two years, this site has been hosted under www.searchphotoscot.co.uk, as a temporary measure while development continued, thus leaving the old site intact.
This new site has now replaced the old one. We hope you like it.
You can search it in four ways - by a text search, by clicking on a red dot on the map, by clicking on a topic in the topic list, or by clicking on a gallery.
Have fun and please send some feedback to info@photoscot.co.uk with any suggestions.
11 January 2011 - Details of a one-day digital wildlife photography course on Saturday 19 March 2011 at Glasgow University added to the Events Page.
11 January 2011 - How not to lose your data page has been enhanced with additional advice.
January 2011 - Dozens of photos of birds in my Glasgow garden during the hard frost and snow of December 2010 added.
2011
December 2010 - test version of Google Checkout added to Shopping Cart page.
November 2010 - Hundreds of photos of the Outer Hebrides added - so far mainly Barra and the Uists.
8/3/2010 - Details of a talk to be given to the Clyde SWT Members' Centre on 22 April 2010 added to the Events Page.
26/2/2010 - Details of Mugdock Country Park Photography Walk on Sunday 28th March 2010 added to Events Page.
20/10/2009 - Details of Glasgow University Department of Adult and Continuing Education Photography Course at DACE and in Kelvingrove Park on Saturday 27th March 2010 added to Events Page.
11/6/09 - Beta test of a major site overhaul to provide keyword, gallery and location searches, and to provide online shopping facility, under the temporary url www.searchphotoscot.co.uk.
11/6/09 - There are lots of updates missed out here which were developed on the old site during 2008.
11/6/09 - New images from the Cairngorms added.
29/7/07 - new scanning page added with details of the scanning service for slides, negatives or prints
13/7/07 - 12 more images added to Ailsa Craig page - gannets, gulls, guillemot, the cottage and the lighthouse
9/7/07 - 8 images added to Ailsa Craig page - of Gannets, Gulls and Manx Shearwater, and pictures of the month for June and July. Talks and events page and species and topic list updated.
21/6/07 - 3 images of golden eagles added to Mull page.
20/6/07 - 3 images of River Ba and Glen Coe added to Rannoch Moor page
18/6/07 - 6 images added to the Mull page on the June 2007 Wild Caledonia wildlife holiday.
Species List updated.
27/5/07 - 9 more images added from Mull on the May 2007 Wild Caledonia wildlife holiday.
22/5/07 - 9 images added from Mull on the May 2007 Wild Caledonia wildlife holiday.
21/5/07 - Talks and events page updated with details of the RSPB Glasgow local group meeting talk on 7 October, and my developing ideas for a new Photoshop course to be run in autumn 2007.
7/5/07 - Loch of the Lowes page started with 3 images of Great Crested Grebes.
Index page - descriptions when hovering over red dots considerably enhanced.
4/5/07 - England page updated with more avocets and black-tailed godwits, green-winged teal and pintail
3/5/07 - England page updated with fighting black-tailed godwits and a lapwing displaying at Marshside RSPB Reserve, and kingfishers at Slimbridge WWT Reserve.
1/5/07 - England page updated with images from Leighton Moss RSPB Reserve - avocets, shoveler, marsh harrier, greylag goose and sedge warbler.
30/4/07 - 3 images of the Add Estuary and 3 of red-breasted mergansers displaying added to the Argyllshire page.
26/4/07 - 3 images taken by people on the Falls of Clyde photography walk added to the second photography walk page.
25/4/07 - 15 images of plants added to Falls of Clyde page
24/4/07 - 6 more images added to Mull page, and new Ardgour and Ardnamurchan pages created.
23/4/07 - A selection of bird and people photos taken on the April 2007 Wild Caledonia wildlife holiday has been added - pages on Argyllshire and Mull; species list also updated.
22/4/07 - the photoscot.co.uk / SWT Photography walk at the Falls of Clyde went well, with very positive feedback from the 9 participants. Thanks to all who participated. Link to second photography walk page
20/4/07 - two new pages - Glen Falloch, Crianlarich and Tyndrum, and Rannoch Moor uploaded
18/4/07 - only one place now available on the photography walk on 22nd April - see walks page.
OK - I've finally had to admit it exists! - a start has been made on a new page on England and Wales, accessible also by clicking on the tiny map in the south-east corner of the Scotland map on the index page.
4/4/07 - picture of the month added
clarification of prices for photographs, and additional description of website construction prices added to services and prices page
27/3/07 - 3 more photos added to Largs page, renamed Largs and Wemyss Bay page
23/3/07 - How not to lose your data page has been enhanced with additional advice.
11/3/07 - Turnberry page updated to include Turnberry Lighthouse, Turnberry Hotel, Culzean Castle and Dunure
New PS Waverley Cruises on the Firth of Clyde page started.
Largs page now has enlarged thumbnails.
A new page giving advice on how not to lose your data has also been written.
10/3/07 - 4 more images added to Glenshee page - red grouse and mountain hare footprints, and 3 of snow-covered mountains and ski slopes
9/3/07 - 3 more images added to Hunterston page - bulk coal carrier "Mineral London" on 3rd March 2007 and Hunterston Nuclear Power station and wind farm at dawn
4/3/07 - new moon page created following last night's lunar eclipse with several moon pictures on it.
2/3/07 - Some of the enlarged thumbnails of peregrine falcons on the Falls of Clyde page and the ptarmigan walking across the snow on the Glenshee page now have insets showing part of the picture in greater detail.
28/2/07 - Ptarmigan, red grouse, montane vegetation, scenery and more mountain hares added to Glenshee page.
15/2/07 - Stylesheet applied with green background to all pages. Please email to tell me whether you like it!
Three new pictures added to Clyde Pelagic Cruises page - grey wagtail, hybrid or hooded crow and shags in Kyles of Bute.
14/2/07 - talks and events page and services and prices page updated with new events - Biodiversity Forum in Helensburgh, and wildlife holidays with Wild Caledonia
11/2/07 - Greylag geese flock flying over Cumbrae added to Cumbrae page.
4/2/07 - New page on Glenshee skiiing area - mountain hares in winter coat, red deer herd, Cairngorms with snow and statues near skiing centre
2/2/07 - 3 more pictures added to aurora borealis page, and enlarged pictures now linked to all thumbnails
1/2/07 - New page on Kintyre - Machrihanish shelduck and common seals, and Jura sunset from Kintyre
31/1/07 - New page on Caerlaverock SWT Reserve, and Species List and Services and Prices pages updated
30/1/07 - Talks programme for 2007 updated
18/1/07 - Services and Prices page updated with more information.
4/1/07 - Tree sparrows, house sparrows and yellowhammer at Farmland Bird Winter Feeding Project at Millichen added to Glasgow page.
3/1/07 - Red Throated Diver close up, Capercaillie female and Capercaillie next added to CEP page.
1/1/07 - Golden Eagle chicks, Great Skua chicks and Arctic Skua chick added to CEP page.
31/12/06 - Swifts moved from Cumbrae page to a page of their own, and a male Shelduck added to the Sanda page.
28/12/06 - My father's Storksbill, Yellow flag irises and Yellow Pansies (Viola curtissii) uploaded to CEP page.
27/12/06 - My father's Fulmar and Snipe's nest uploaded to CEP page.
24/12/06 - 6 of my father's black and white pictures of bitterns at the nest, and a golden eagle at its nest uploaded to CEP page
23/12/06 - 17 more pictures from 2006 added to Sanda page - Eider Ducks and brood, wheatear, rock pipit, linnet, stonecrop, peregrine falcon, shelduck.
21/12/06 - mountain hare thumbnails increased in scale; snipe and jack snipe put on Glasgow page
19/12/06 - many links to existing pages put on species and topics list.
17/12/06 - Arctic Terns and Rabbit added to Isle of May page
11/12/06 - new Oban page added with Castle Stalker and Loch Feochan - lichens and highland cattle
9/12/06 - Glen Doll page updated from 2 images to 12.
2/12/06 - new Turnberry page started, with gannet diving above Ailsa Craig, and a flock of mergansers flying through a sunset in front of Kintyre, and Glen Doll page started, with mountain hare on Great Dreish.
30/11/06 - new pages on Ailsa Craig, Arran and Largs and new page of scanned photos by my father. Also a new stylesheet for the index page, and links from the species list to large thumbnails. New talks dates on talks page.
17/11/06 - new cute furry animals page with red squirrel, fox and mountain hare, and some additions to the species list, and news of the next photoscot/SWT photography walk
23/10/06 - Report and pictures from the first photoscot.co.uk photography walk
16/10/06 - Image and hotspot tags now working in Firefox as well as in Internet Explorer.
15/10/06 - Large images linked to almost all Falls of Clyde page thumbnails.
10/10/06 - New peregrine falcon images on the Falls of Clyde page.
13/9/06 - On the Falls of Clyde page there are some new images and larger images have been linked to most of the thumbnails. Click the thumbnails for larger images.
25/7/06 - More swifts, a swallow and house martins in flight added to Cumbrae page
18/7/06 - this new updates page
Swifts in flight added to Cumbrae page;
Canoeists on the Eileans and Marine Biological Satation from the sea and research boat Aora added to Millport page.
14/7/06 Hunterston Nuclear power Station and wind farm, Isle of May puffins, Argaty Red Kites - kites and buzzard, and additions to the Great Cumbrae page, the Clyde Pelagic Cruises page, the walks and talks pages and 3 new pages on photoscot.co.uk services and prices , about photoscot.co.uk and technical details of pictures.
March 2006 - site started