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up the hill

  1. Invasion

    Invasion

    I could have given you a picture of a single Northern Wheatear, but this was the first time I'd managed to find 4 together on my patch; think they'd just arrived. We were certainly being treated that day, what with yesterday's Skylark too. Remember that big black hole in the dyke (wall)... it...
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    • 2024 april drimmie nikon coolpix p900 northern wheatear oenanthe oenanthe perthshire scotland up the hill
    • Comments: 9
    • Category: Britain & Europe
  2. Bliss

    Bliss

    We had a wonderful session on my Up the Hill patch a couple of weeks ago. Not just one but two pairs of Wheatears were just arrived and this Eurasian Skylark spent ages enjoying a dust bath! I really liked this pose I captured. Saturday Fun Sorry to be so late with this, as I was half way...
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    • 2024 alauda arvensis april drimmie eurasian skylark nikon coolpix p900 perthshire saturday fun scotland up the hill
    • Comments: 8
    • Category: Britain & Europe
  3. My tree

    My tree

    I spotted this picture on a scroll through some images last night and it so reminded me of the Sycamore Gap Tree beside Hadrian's Wall, which was vandalised by being completely chopped down one night in September. Such a shame for this iconic place. The National Trust are trying to decide what...
    • delia todd
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    • 2023 august blairgowrie drimmie perthshire saturday fun scotland the lochan tree up the hill
    • Comments: 6
    • Category: Landscapes
  4. Balancing

    Balancing

    Off up to my Patch again. Didn't see much but had quite a bit sitting on wires as we approached. First was a Meadow Pipit, giving a rather nice pose. Sorry, I just completely forgot that yesterday was Saturday!
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    • 2023 anthus pratensis august blairgowrie drimmie meadow pipit nikon coolpix p900 perthshire scotland up the hill
    • Comments: 8
    • Category: Britain & Europe
  5. Wired up

    Wired up

    Making our way slowly along the road home, I spotted this Meadow Pipit sitting on a fence wire. The dark background is actually a hill covered with pine trees!
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    • anthus pratensis drimmie meadow pipit perthshire scotland up the hill
    • Comments: 14
    • Category: Britain & Europe
  6. The wee one

    The wee one

    Then an old friend appeared much further up the lochan. The lovely Little Grebe (or Dabchick). Too far away to get a really decent image, so I didn't attempt to crop too much, as I thought the setting was attractive anyway. The vegetation was looking really lush!
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    • 2020 blairgowrie dabchick drimmie july little grebe perthshire scotland tachybaptus ruficollis up the hill
    • Comments: 18
    • Category: Britain & Europe
  7. Back on the Patch

    Back on the Patch

    A couple of days later we checked for the feeders, but still none. So we drove on up the Glen heading towards Glenshee, but turned off onto the Tullymurdoch road across the moor where we'd explored the previous day out. The weather wasn't as good and we really didn't see much, apart from a...
    • delia todd
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    • 2020 blairgowrie common moorhen drimmie gallinula chloropus july nikon coolpix p900 perthshire scotland up the hill
    • Comments: 13
    • Category: Britain & Europe
  8. Keep your head down, I'm landing

    Keep your head down, I'm landing

    AAP Sometimes the oycs weren't loafing about on the causeway, but were plodding about up on the hillside. This is one of my numerous attempts at a flight shot with the little Coolpix.
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    • flight oystercatcher up the hill
    • Comments: 24
    • Category: Britain & Europe
  9. Common Gulls (Sub-adult)

    Common Gulls (Sub-adult)

    AAP This was digiscoped up on my patch a few years ago. It looks like it was a very hot, sunny day. These two look too old to have been hatched there that summer.
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    • 2005 blairgowrie common gulls july juvenile/immature larus canus nikon coolpix 4500 & leica apo77 perthshire scotland sub-adult the patch up the hill
    • Comments: 23
    • Category: Britain & Europe
  10. Common Gull

    Common Gull

    AAP I kept trying (and hoping) for 'the' flight shot with the little Nikon Coolpix, but really asking a bit much. Anyway this was taken up on my Patch a few years ago. Sometimes there were just 2 or 3 birds there, other times 50 or more.
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    • 2005 blairgowrie common gull flight july larus canus nikon coolpix 4500 perthshire scotland the patch up the hill
    • Comments: 23
    • Category: Britain & Europe
  11. Common Gull Juveniles

    Common Gull Juveniles

    AAP I don't 'do' gulls but I think these two were too old to be that year's brood and I'm really not sure if they were born on my patch at all. Many times I thought there were a couple sitting on nests but never saw any baby ones until 2010. Loads of gulls seemed to like the area and would...
    • delia todd
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    • 2005 blairgowrie common gull july juvenile nikon coolpix 4500 & leica apo77 perthshire scotand the patch up the hill
    • Comments: 27
    • Category: Britain & Europe
  12. Common Gull loafing

    Common Gull loafing

    AAP It's amazing how confusing a different angle makes - this one almost made me thing Kittiwake! That bill just looks short, thin and pointed - nothing like the before and after pictures. He'd been dozing on the causeway at my Patch on a rather hot June day. One of the more numberous species...
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    • 2005 blairgowrie common gull june larus canus nikon coolpix 4500 & leica apo77 perthshire scotland the patch up the hill
    • Comments: 25
    • Category: Britain & Europe
  13. Young Stonechat

    Young Stonechat

    AAP There was a little road cut through my patch lined on both sides with gorse (unfortunately this has now all been ploughed up). Anyway, quite a few birds used it during the summer, for breeding and Stonechats were amongst them. Digiscoped
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    • blairgowrie drimmie european stonechat juvenile/immature leica apo 77 & nikon 4500 perthshire saxicola rubicola scotland stonechat up the hill
    • Comments: 22
    • Category: Britain & Europe
  14. I'm outa here

    I'm outa here

    AAP A few seconds after taking my last Mipit shot, he was off and I just caught him, unfortunately with a bit of movement, sorry it's not very sharp. Digiscoped.
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    • meadow pipit up the hill
    • Comments: 11
    • Category: Britain & Europe
  15. Meadow Pipit

    Meadow Pipit

    AAP I don't have many pictures of these in my Gallery, so thought it time to pop one in. In case you're wondering why there's so many 'old' pictures to upload, when I joined in 2004, I was on wind-up internet, and had to pay so really couldn't spend any time in the Gallery at all, it wasn't...
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    • meadow pipit up the hill
    • Comments: 30
    • Category: Britain & Europe
  16. Peacock Butterfly

    Peacock Butterfly

    AAP I've just come across this picture which I forgot all about. It was taken up on my patch in 2005 - I don't actually see all that many butterflies up there and I think this was the only time I saw these. I don't have many butterflies in my Gallery, so thought it was time to add another...
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    • peacock butterfly up the hill
    • Comments: 22
    • Category: Butterflies & Moths
  17. Oystercatchers

    Oystercatchers

    AAP An oldie from my Patch. At the end of the lochan is a causeway and the Oystercatchers love to sit there, especially through June and July. Around the time of this picture there were about 20 loafing about, but one time I counted over 30. I'm sure the Oycs are breeding on the moor, but...
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    • oystercatcher up the hill
    • Comments: 29
    • Category: Britain & Europe
  18. Red-legged Partridge

    Red-legged Partridge

    AAP I'd forgotten all about this picture! I was sitting in the car and must have noticed a movement in the wing-mirror. Twisted round and managed to fire off two shots (the second one even more was hidden behind the posts!) It's interesting really, the partridge was less than 2 car lengths...
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    • 2007 alectoris rufa blairgowrie nikon coolpix 4500 perthshire red-legged partridge scotland september up the hill
    • Comments: 22
    • Category: Britain & Europe
  19. Skylark in the muck

    Skylark in the muck

    AAP This was taken up on my patch. The farmer had ploughed a field and spread it with muck. I managed to get this shot through the car window, so not very close. One of very, very few pictures I've got of a Skylark.
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    • skylark up the hill
    • Comments: 16
    • Category: Britain & Europe
  20. Scottish Thistle

    Scottish Thistle

    I was up on my patch yesterday and went looking for butterflies and damsels - absolutely zilch, apart from one of those tiny white moths with transparent wings. However, the thistles are coming into flower now and if you look very closely at this one you'll see two flies. They were on the...
    • delia todd
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    • drimmie fly thistle up the hill
    • Comments: 19
    • Category: Wild Flowers, Trees, Shrubs, Fungi
  21. Up the Hill view

    Up the Hill view

    It was so hot yesterday, I went up to my patch for some fresh air! I was driving along the road where the gorse is that I showed you the other week, when I saw a Magpie pop up with some other corvids. So I pulled over and walked onto the moor to see if I could get a picture of him, but there...
    • delia todd
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    • blairgowrie cotton grass up the hill
    • Comments: 13
    • Category: Landscapes
  22. Common Gull behaviour

    Common Gull behaviour

    This picture was taken a few years ago up on my Patch; I came across it again today and hoped you all might be interested. There were about 40 Common Gulls on my Patch that day. Shortly after the numbers virtually doubled - nearly all of them sub-adult. After a while they all started to fly...
    • delia todd
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    • 2007 blairgowrie common gull behaviour larus canus may nikon coolpix 4500 perthshire scotland up the hill
    • Comments: 17
    • Category: Britain & Europe
  23. Roadside Gorse

    Roadside Gorse

    Plenty of feeder action today, including some youngsters I think. But the light was so poor, I don't think there's really anything worth posting today, so another picture of my Patch which I took on Sunday afternoon instead. The little road that goes through my patch used to be lined on each...
    • delia todd
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    • 2011 blairgowrie gorse may olympus sp55-ouz perthshire scotland the patch up the hill
    • Comments: 18
    • Category: Landscapes
  24. Up the Hill view (... or a bit of it)

    Up the Hill view (... or a bit of it)

    I was up at my Patch yesterday afternoon and for once had a few hours when my back wasn't sore, so walked a bit further than I'd managed for many months. This view is taken from the top of the pasture field looking north-eastwards toward the Angus glens. The first row of trees is the boundary...
    • delia todd
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    • 2011 april blairgowrie drimmie olympus sp-550uz pasture field perthshire scotland up the hill
    • Comments: 17
    • Category: Landscapes
  25. Up the Hill Lochan

    Up the Hill Lochan

    This is a view of a bit of my Patch - an angle I'm particularly fond of. I was first drawn to this bit of upland moorland as the lochan was very new, it'd only been dug out a year or two and I thought it would be interesting to see what would find it as the years went by. Dabchick and Moorhen...
    • delia todd
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    • 2010 august blairgowrie drimmie lochan olympus sp-550uz perthshire scotland up the hill wych elm
    • Comments: 24
    • Category: Landscapes
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