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    Info - Best Place For Great and Arctic Skua?

    Handa I've been to Handa twice It's the tops, for me, for Skuas. Even had an argument with one that refused to move off the path, even when I was 10ft away from him! They like to use the lochan near the cliffs as a bath.
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    Swan behaviour

    Swan behaviour 2 A couple of weeks ago I was at Loch Balgavie (Angus) and saw the self-same thing! I thought a unpaired male had maybe antagonised the other. They went at it hammer and tong for about 10 minutes. They also attracted the attention of the geese who flew in to spectate!
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    Waxwings an unexpected joy !

    63 waxwings! We had a flock of 63, yes, 63 around our garden last week. Stayed long enough to strip our Cotoneaster (a couple of days) and disappeared. My wife is a garden birdwatcher for BTO, she was looking forward to putting them down on her report sheet! Read that once, in about, every ten...
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    Comment by 'Bob Pert' in media 'Fulmar'

    Lovely pic. I see he has the usual drip at his nose, recycled seawater LOL!
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    Comment by 'Bob Pert' in media 'Three Wise Herons'

    Love it, if that's what you can get with a "Bigma" I want one! |=)|
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    Comment by 'Bob Pert' in media 'Grey seal pup'

    I should have made it clear in my original posting that this was actually a rescue situation. I'm a British Divers Marine Life Rescue medic and was in the middle of accessing this pup when I took the picture. It was uplifted and taken to SSPCA Middlebank for rehabilitation where it died of...
  7. Kittiwake at Arbroath sea cliffs

    Kittiwake at Arbroath sea cliffs

    Kittiwake against a backdrop of the red sandstone sea cliffs at Arbroath.
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  8. Fulmar with red tail

    Fulmar with red tail

    This bird flew past me and I saw what appeared to be a red tail! Didn't take long to figure out why after I quickly fired off this shot and zoomed in on it. Arbroath sea cliffs are red sandstone and this birds tail feathers have been rubbing on the wall of the cliffs as it sits on it's very...
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    • Category: Britain & Europe
  9. Kittiwakes fighting

    Kittiwakes fighting

    Whilst out Arbroath sea cliffs taking "in flight" pics I noticed this pair of protaganists having a barney in the sky. They were so intent on their fight that they tumbled into the water and continued knocking seven bells out of each other!
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    Comment by 'Bob Pert' in media 'Seal on the rocks'

    Beautiful pin sharp pic of a Common, she looks like she's contented! They hold their flippers like that when they are "just right" for temperature. When they get a bit warm they'll open the flippers to a fan and if they get too warm (not often in Scotland!) they'll wave the opened...
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    Comment by 'Bob Pert' in media 'What else do you do on a dull day?'

    Absolute cracker of a picture!
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    Comment by 'Bob Pert' in media 'Slender-billed Gull'

    What a beautiful bird, well photographed.
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    Comment by 'Bob Pert' in media 'Northern Fulmar'

    Lovely picture, somebody else who likes Fulmars. I see the air brakes on!
  14. Juvenile Chaffinch

    Juvenile Chaffinch

    Should have been in the mountains but the rain was bucketing down and my wife and I were quietly reading in our tent at Roy Bridge campsite. I was aware of some movement at the skirt of the tent, looked round and this wee thing hops into the tent and takes up residence on one of the campseats...
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  15. Ptarmigan changing plumage

    Ptarmigan changing plumage

    Not he best of pics, I must look out the slide and rescan it!
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