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loch leven

  1. Hiding in plain sight

    Hiding in plain sight

    The art of hiding behind a twig! I wish it was a sedge:)
    • Jaysan
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    • acrocephalus schoenobaenus loch leven scotland sedge warbler twig
    • Comments: 5
    • Category: Britain & Europe
  2. Shoveler without a care

    Shoveler without a care

    This shoveler was happy to go past the hide a few times. It knew there were people inside, but didn't seem worried. And it kept making a constant contact call all along (e.g. the first 6 seconds of https://xeno-canto.org/644500).
    • Jaysan
    • Media item
    • loch leven northern shoveler scotland spatula clypeata
    • Comments: 10
    • Category: Britain & Europe
  3. Prickly job

    Prickly job

    With the help of Aeshna and Ficedula in the insect forum, this poor bumblebee image has been identified as one of two species, most likely Field Cuckoo-bee (Bombus campestris but the other option was Bombus pascuorum. The this is a Spear Thistle Cirsium vulgare, which does look rather like a...
    • delia todd
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    • bumble bee loch leven spear thistle vane farm
    • Comments: 11
    • Category: Wild Flowers, Trees, Shrubs, Fungi
  4. You shall not pass!

    You shall not pass!

    .... well perhaps we'll let you if you promise to be good. On the way to a woodland and hill walk (which we didn't do with the baby). Actually I was hoping to go to the feeding station, but couldn't find it! Due to the construction works they'd moved it, but there were no signs. We didn't find...
    • delia todd
    • Media item
    • loch leven saturday fun vane farm wood carvings
    • Comments: 16
    • Category: Art & Graphics
  5. White and Pink

    White and Pink

    Along the same stretch of path I chased a butterfly around for a bit until he finally settled on this Rosebay Willowherb.... gotcha!! Oh I do have problems trying to get butterflies in shot.
    • delia todd
    • Media item
    • cabbage white butterfly loch leven vane farm
    • Comments: 9
    • Category: Butterflies & Moths
  6. Caught (k)napping

    Caught (k)napping

    We left the first hide and wandered along the path the the next one. There's a steep bank (protecting the birds from disturbance) and covered in a variety of grasses and wild flowers. This was one of them; Common Knapweed.
    • delia todd
    • Media item
    • common knapweed loch leven vane farm
    • Comments: 10
    • Category: Wild Flowers, Trees, Shrubs, Fungi
  7. Hill view

    Hill view

    Out of a side window of the hide, I got this view through the middle distance trees to the Lomond Hills beyond. Not sure, but think the village on of the Balgedies (East or West). This part of the hills is West Lomond at 522m. The area is used by the local gliding school as they get plenty of...
    • delia todd
    • Media item
    • loch leven vane farm west lomond
    • Comments: 11
    • Category: Landscapes
  8. Puddlers

    Puddlers

    Found a Lapwing resting beside one of the pools near the hide, along with a passing Moorhen. Another fully zoomed and well-cropped image due to the distance!
    • delia todd
    • Media item
    • lapwing loch leven moorhen vane farm
    • Comments: 15
    • Category: Britain & Europe
  9. White in the blue and green

    White in the blue and green

    We wandered down to the nearest hide overlooking the loch, though actually it's set some distance back and looks more over the grassland, pools and scrapes before the water. There's some construction work going on to provide an 'accesible' underpass to the hides. Anyway, I managed to get this...
    • delia todd
    • Media item
    • black-headed gull loch leven mute swan vane farm
    • Comments: 12
    • Category: Britain & Europe
  10. Loch Leven

    Loch Leven

    Loch Leven
    • brian483
    • Media item
    • loch leven
    • Comments: 4
    • Category: Landscapes
  11. Loch Leven

    Loch Leven

    Loch Leven, Perth & Kinross from the Cleish Hills
    • brian483
    • Media item
    • loch leven
    • Comments: 2
    • Category: Landscapes
  12. Little Ringed Plover

    Little Ringed Plover

    Thanks for your comments this week. Have a good Bank Holiday week-end! PS - no response as yet from the local authority about the Tawny Owl!
    • Brian Dunning
    • Media item
    • ef 400 do is usm eos 7d little ringed plover loch leven rspb scotland vane farm
    • Comments: 23
    • Category: Britain & Europe
  13. loch leven

    loch leven

    hope you all had a great new year.went to loch leven today hoping to see a white-tailed eagle no luck but an enjoyable day the grandkids had fun on the swings.
    • mags1967
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    • loch leven
    • Comments: 17
    • Category: Landscapes
  14. Loch Leven

    Loch Leven

    Loch Leven looking towards Kinnesswood and the Bishop Hill
    • brian483
    • Media item
    • bishop hill loch leven
    • Comments: 8
    • Category: Landscapes
  15. Can I come ashore?

    Can I come ashore?

    Loch Leven conflict
    • brian483
    • Media item
    • loch leven
    • Comments: 3
    • Category: Landscapes
  16. RSPB Vane Farm, Loch Leven

    RSPB Vane Farm, Loch Leven

    Looking over wetland area, RSPB Vane Farm, taken from part way up Vane Hill, looking approx north west, towards Kinross
    • brian483
    • Media item
    • loch leven
    • Comments: 3
    • Category: Landscapes
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