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vane farm
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Escaped
Back in August, a cousin and her husband visited Scotland and we arranged to meet up at Loch Leven RSPB reserve, as it was about half-way between us. It was good to catch up with them after many years. This reserve used to be called Vane Farm. We had lunch there then a wander round the reserve...- delia todd
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- 2022 august eurasian magpie kinross loch leven rspb nikon coolpix p900 pica pica saturday fun scotland vane farm
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- Category: Britain & Europe
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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
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- Category: Wild Flowers, Trees, Shrubs, Fungi
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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
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- loch leven saturday fun vane farm wood carvings
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- Category: Art & Graphics
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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
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- cabbage white butterfly loch leven vane farm
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- Category: Butterflies & Moths
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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
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- common knapweed loch leven vane farm
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- Category: Wild Flowers, Trees, Shrubs, Fungi
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Grey? in the green
Greylags don't look particularly 'grey' do they? Actually it was such a surprise to realise there were two geese in this picture. The first two in the series, the one on the left had it's head turned away, and only in the last two did it turn to look at her mate! She blended in so well in the...- delia todd
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- 2018 anser anser fuji finepix hs50 greylag july kinross loch leven rspb scotland vane farm
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- Category: Britain & Europe
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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
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- loch leven vane farm west lomond
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- Category: Landscapes
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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
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- lapwing loch leven moorhen vane farm
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Family time
A full zoomed and heavily cropped picture this one, so you can tell it's quite a distance from the hide. However, I did want to record the family of Mute Swans out for a swim.- delia todd
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- loch leven reserve mute swan family vane farm
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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
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- black-headed gull loch leven mute swan vane farm
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Priory island
Just poking it's nose into this picture is the peninsula for St Serf's Island. You can read more about the history of this place (dating back to 800 and something) then becoming an Augustine Priory. https://canmore.org.uk/site/27872/loch-leven-st-serfs-island-st-serfs-priory-church Virtually...- delia todd
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- loch leven nature reserve st serf\'s island vane farm
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- Category: Landscapes
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Loch and hills with signs
This is the view from the car park across Loch Leven. I'd arranged to meet up with my niece, her husband and their baby son Joseph, my first sighting of the wee mite (he's a year old this week)! I had a wander about the car park and road while waiting for them and was rather struck with this...- delia todd
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- 2018 fuji finepix hs50 exr july kinross loch leven rspb scotland vane farm
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Heres looking at you kid
I visited Vane Farm near Kinross this morning a 11am and caught this lovely closeup of the Lapwing- DMelrose10
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- bird face lapwing look vane farm
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Lapwing
Arrived at Vane farm, Kinross at 7 am after an hour and 10 minutes drive. I entered hide 1 to find only 1 tufted duck sitting in the water. This was taken from hide 3 the Gillian Hide, If I remember correctly.- DMelrose10
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- bird lapwing vane farm
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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
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Another view from the top of the hill
AAP This picture is looking down onto the wetland area of Vane Farm reserve, if you get out your binos you might see the hides;) In the distance you can see the Ochil Hills.- delia todd
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I can't get rid of that itch
AAP There were lots of Mute Swans at Vane Farm, in fact there was one on a nest right beside the path on the way into a hide. Digiscoped- delia todd
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- mute swan vane farm
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I got to the top...
... in the days when I still could! This was actually the first time I'd climbed up to the top of the hill at Vane Farm and oh how well worth-while it was. This is Loch Leven and the island you can see is St Serf's Island which has the remains of an Augustinian Priory. AAP- delia todd
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- Category: Landscapes
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Dozy Oystercatcher
AAP Another from that trip to Vane Farm. I can't believe it's nearly 6 years ago! I thought this one was asleep until I saw his eye open when I looked at the pictures later! Digiscoped- delia todd
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- oystercatcher vane farm
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And shake it all about
AAP I had a very lovely visit to Vane Farm with two keen young birders back in the summer of 2006. From one of the hides we spotted this Black-headed Gull on the far side of the loch. It was having a bit of a preen. Digiscoped- delia todd
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- 2006 black-headed gull chroicocephalus ridibundus june leica apo 77 & nikon 4500 perthshire scotland vane farm
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- Category: Britain & Europe
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Pink-footed Geese
AAP Back in 2005 I paid an autumn visit to Vane Farm to see the geese. Hundreds of pinkies had arrived - this picture shows just a few of them. Somewhere, in amongst, was a Barnacle Goose. Digiscoped through the heat haze.- delia todd
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- pink-footed goose vane farm
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- Category: Britain & Europe