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Willow (05 Dec 2010)

After a week and a lot of snow clearing I was finally able to get the car out and visit Barbara. Cara had a new litter, and her…

Starlings (01 Dec 2010)

It was so cold I took a fat ball in the house and crushed it once it had warmed up. I scattered the bits on the snow, and…

Robin (30 Nov 2010)

I was feeding the birds and this lovely robin was a frequent visitor.  He is perfect for a Christmas card, but was so hard to get a good…

Monty (19 Sep 2010)

Monty belonged to my friend Liz, and was a big, beautiful ginger cat.  He is very territorial about her garden hence his torn ear, but mostly likes to…

Triple Trouble! (20 Jun 2010)

I was visiting Barbera as Cara had a lovely litter of kittens.  I walked in one morning and three of them were beautifully lined up.  I pressed the shutter…

Ice Trek (17 Feb 2010)

Sometimes the swans on Gaddon Loch got lucky and someone would feed them.  Here they are trekking back from the edge to one of the holes in the…

Take-off! (17 Feb 2010)

A few of the swans decided that a mixture of running and flapping might be easier than waddling back to the holes in the ice. This swan hasn’t…

Gull Drinking (16 Feb 2010)

Back at Birnie Loch, the hard winter continued and most of the surface was frozen.  The birds were keeping a few holes open, and I spotted this Black-headed Gull…

Immature Mute Swan (17 Nov 2009)

Still at Birnie Loch!  This is one of the 2009 cygnets part-way through the process of changing it’s brown immature plumage for the white of an adult. It…

Mute Swan Preening (17 Sep 2009)

Also taken at Birnie Loch.  Judging by the size of the black knob at the base of his bill, this looks like a cob (male) swan to me….