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  1. Colonising?

    Colonising?

    Also on the lochan were Whooper Swans... yes, no less than three of them! In the past they would occasionally be seen there, for an odd day or two, but only singletons. A rather pleasing sight really.
    • delia todd
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    • 2023 april blairgowrie cygnus cygnus drimmie nikon coolpix p900 perthshire scotland whooper swan
    • Comments: 8
    • Category: Britain & Europe
  2. A male multi-tasking????

    A male multi-tasking????

    My friend and I spent an extended lunch break at my old patch "Up the Hill" on Sunday, quite a bit to be seen but this was a record shot taken through the windscreen of a couple of Mallards. It wasn't until I downloaded the pictures that I realised one was scratching his neck. A bit of...
    • delia todd
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    • 2019 anas platyrhynchos april blairgowrie drimmie mallard nikon coolpix p900 perthshire saturday fun scotland
    • Comments: 9
    • Category: Britain & Europe
  3. 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!
    • delia todd
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    • anthus pratensis drimmie meadow pipit perthshire scotland up the hill
    • Comments: 14
    • Category: Britain & Europe
  4. 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!
    • delia todd
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    • 2020 blairgowrie dabchick drimmie july little grebe perthshire scotland tachybaptus ruficollis up the hill
    • Comments: 18
    • Category: Britain & Europe
  5. 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
  6. Gulls, gulls and more gulls!

    Gulls, gulls and more gulls!

    I just want to tidy up on some of my pre-new camera picture folders. In that lovely early April weather I went for a drive past my old patch in my new car (had an oops moment in that too)! The farmer was ploughing and had attracted hundreds of gulls in mostly Common, but there was one...
    • delia todd
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    • 2015 april blairgowrie common gulls following the tractor drimmie larus canus olympus sp-550uz perthshire scotland
    • Comments: 24
    • Category: Britain & Europe
  7. A right mixture

    A right mixture

    I'd been suffering from cabin fever with the awful dark days through most of November. When lo and behold the sun came out on the very last day. So I hot-footed it (well drove that is) up the hills to see if I could find any winter visitors. A large flock flew across the road in front of me; I...
    • delia todd
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    • drimmie winter migrants
    • Comments: 23
    • Category: Britain & Europe
  8. 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
    • delia todd
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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
  9. 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
  10. 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
  11. 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
  12. Yellowhammer

    Yellowhammer

    I don't see these very often on my Patch, so this one today was very welcome. Singing his little head off in the hot sunshine.
    • delia todd
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    • 2010 blairgowrie drimmie emberiza citrinella may olympus sp55o-uz perthshire scotland up the hill yellowhammer
    • Comments: 30
    • Category: Britain & Europe
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