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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…
Towards the end of November it started to snow – and snow, and snow, and snow. I had left the heads on the self-sown teasels and they made…
I went to my usual perch at Drumcarrow Craig to watch the Red Arrows from a distance. Usually during the second part of the display various groups come…
Kite Landboarding is one of the relatively new wind sports, and the West Sands at St Andrews are an ideal venue as there is a large almost flat…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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….
I found my new lens was excellent for ‘wildlife’ photography. Actually the resident birds at Birnie and Gaddon Lochs are fairly habituated to people, and this duck was quite…