WILDLIFE

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What you don't see in the photos. The perch has been built near the feeders so the birds land on the perch firstly before walking up the perch then hopping onto…
Blue Tit "hoovering" up all the droppings from the feeder
A little field mouse that used to live under my shed and would come out regularly when he heard me in the garden
Baby Siskin basically sitting in the feeder stuffing its face
A lizard that hopped onto my hand when I was crossing a stile. They were very common when I was young but this is the first one I've seen in years
A Chaffinch acrobatically perched on my neighbours Hydrangea bush
Red Squirrel on one of the feeders up at the Dell Oakwood, Brahan
A female Chaffinch somehow standing on the leaf without it bending
A Coal Tit puffed up against the cold
The obligatory picture of a Highland Cow
A Swan taking off on the Dell Lochan. It almost needs the full length of the lochan to get airborne
Mother and baby Oyster Catchers who were nesting in my works car park. She nests in the craziest of places but the trade off is lack of predators with so many…
An adder basking on a cover at one of my old work sites. I took the picture with my telephoto lens so I wasn't as close as the picture suggests. Males are…
I used my golf umbrella to gently move him out of my way but he wasn't having it and slithered back with a bit of a hiss.
Mother Coal Tit feeding her chick
Mother Starling feeding her chick
Stunning timber wolf at Kincraig
Two Siskins going for broke !!
I wasn't stalking him. I came round a rocky outcrop and he was simply standing there without a care in the world
Female Siskin