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perthshire
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Caddisfly
I found this on one of the windows round my flat in early September. Never seen anything like this here before, not a clue where to start looking for an ID, so over to you clever lot. Now identified by @mummmymonkey and @Rother Birder in the Insect Forum (and on here) as a Caddisfly. I'd...- delia todd
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- blairgowrie. perthshire scotland
- Comments: 14
- Category: Invertebrates
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Baggy pants
The 1st of September then broke bright and clear, so the afternoon it was back to the feeding station..... finding first a rather handsome Great Tit, even if he has got some rather loose feathers.- delia todd
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- blairgowrie craighall great tit parus major perthshire scotland
- Comments: 17
- Category: Britain & Europe
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Scruffy youngster
Equally, this young Blackbird doesn't seem too impressed with the wet weather. How scruffy they look at this plumage stage, just losing the last of their juvenile feathers around the head and neck.- delia todd
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- blairgowrie eurasian blackbird garden perthshire turdus merula
- Comments: 13
- Category: Britain & Europe
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I'm not a duck
The morning started wet.... and got wetter. This pigeon wished he was a duck I think as he looks most disgruntled. TTTW- delia todd
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- 2020 august blairgowrie columba palumbus common wood pigeon garden perthshire scotland
- Comments: 17
- Category: Britain & Europe
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Chewing his nails?
No, this is how they usually feed.... grab a seed and take it off somewhere quiet hold it between their toes and chew on it. Most tits do this I think.- delia todd
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- blairgowrie craighall great tit parus major perthshire scotland
- Comments: 13
- Category: Britain & Europe
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Seed selection
Seed selection- delia todd
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- blairgowrie coal tit craighall periparus ater perthshire scotland
- Comments: 16
- Category: Britain & Europe
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Just a bluey
The tit feste went one and a Blue Tit came in, settling on a branch before deciding which feeder to head for.- delia todd
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- .2020 august blairgowrie. blue tit craighall cyanistes caeruleus nikon coolpix p900 perthshire scotland
- Comments: 15
- Category: Britain & Europe
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Everybody's sweetheart
... aren't they? August found us back at the new feeding station and the feeders were back up! Unfortunately these don't visit my garden (yet); it'd taken a few visits before they showed themselves to me though.- delia todd
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- 2020 august blairgowrie craighall cyanistes caeruleus long-tailed tit nikon coolpix p900 perthshire scotland
- Comments: 15
- Category: Britain & Europe
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See... he's OK Ella
The gull gave up on trying to climb up the roof and came back to investigate the food on the other one. Ella was concerned he'd only got one leg, but you can see he's complete.- delia todd
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- black-headed gull blairgowrie chroicocephalus ridibundus garden perthshire scotland
- Comments: 17
- Category: Britain & Europe
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This is my favourite move
A Wood Pigeon looking on while the Black-headed Gull demonstrates his best ballet position. Couldn't resist this one for my Saturday Fun entry. That roof is quite steep and gulls, particularly, always struggle to climb it. TTTW- delia todd
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- 2020 blairgowrie chroicocephalus ridibundus garden july nikon coolpix p900 perthshire saturday fun scotland
- Comments: 15
- Category: Britain & Europe
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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
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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
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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
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Not on a stone....
..... and not chatting! There was a small plantation of pine trees beside where we were standing and we could hear various things in there, so trying to watch might emerge. Somehow peripheral vision attracted my attention behind me and beyond the fence on a fallen tree some yards in I saw a...- delia todd
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- 2020 blairgowrie european stonechat july male nikon coolpix p900 perthshire saxicola rubicola scotland tullymurdoch
- Comments: 15
- Category: Britain & Europe
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On the moors
This was one of the views I had that day. So it's new to you, as I've not been on that bit of the moor very often, nor for quite a long time. It's sort of looking towards the northish west and Pitlochry / Blair Atholl direction- delia todd
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- blairgowrie. perthshire scotland tullymurdoch view
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- Category: Landscapes
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Flying High
We went to the new feeding station, but now all the feeders had been taken down, so we scattered some seed on the ground, but little turned up. A discussion then followed and we decided to head for the hills. We set off past my old Up the Hill patch and turned onto the moor beyond. It's a...- delia todd
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- 2020 blairgowrie common kestrel falco tinnunculus july nikon coolpix p900 perthshire scotland tullymurdoch
- Comments: 16
- Category: Britain & Europe
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Father and son
At least there were some peanuts for the Blue Tits (thanks to me of course)- delia todd
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- blairgowrie craighall cyanistes caeruleus perthshire scotland
- Comments: 16
- Category: Britain & Europe
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Wrap around
I'm sure he'd have tried to carry that nut feeder away, he seems to have really taken ownership of it, doesn't he.- delia todd
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- 2020 blairgowrie craighall july nikon coolpix p900 perthshire red squirrel sciurus vulgaris scotland
- Comments: 11
- Category: Wild Mammals
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Youngsters still pouring in
Back at the new feeders and still they're over-run with youngsters. Here's a Great Tit stuffing his face.- delia todd
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- blairgowrie craighall great tit perthshire scotland
- Comments: 15
- Category: Britain & Europe
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First in
This Wood Pigeon was the first to come for breakfast, so had the full choice! Seems he's gone for the insect nibbles first. TTTW- delia todd
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- 2020 blairgowrie columba palumbas garden july nikon coolpix p900 perthshire scotland wood pigeon
- Comments: 15
- Category: Britain & Europe
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If I turn my back
,,, maybe she'll think I'm not really interested! It does rather look like the Blue Tit has lost interest in that feeder, doesn't it.- delia todd
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- 2020 blairgowrie blue tit chaffinch female craighall cyanistes caeruleus fringilla coelebs june nikon coolpix p900 perthshire scotland
- Comments: 13
- Category: Britain & Europe
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Covering his modesty
I was so delighted to see this Red Squirrel that I couldn't resist showing you another picture of him. And a picture I thought where he gave me a really cute pose.- delia todd
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- 2020 blairgowrie craighall june nikon coolpix p900 perthshire red squirrel sciurus vulgaris scotland
- Comments: 10
- Category: Wild Mammals
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Branched
Unusually I can see just a little of his crest - they don't often show it, at least to me.- delia todd
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- blairgowrie blue tit craighall perthshire scotland
- Comments: 19
- Category: Britain & Europe
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Got one... Pt 2..... Lost one
The next picture I took after yesterday's... he threw that seed away (or did he drop it as he turned?) - you can just see it falling (the whitish blob on his right). This amused me enough to decide to use it for my Saturday Fun entry- delia todd
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- blairgowrie coal tit craighall perthshire saturday fun scotland
- Comments: 11
- Category: Britain & Europe
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Got one.....
.... or has he?;) A Coal Tit made one of his lightning fast visits to the seed feeder. Don't worry... I'll maybe show you some more squirrel pictures another day. LOL- delia todd
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- blairgowrie coal tit craighall perthshire scotland
- Comments: 15
- Category: Britain & Europe