Back in March I was up in the Cairngorms, which is famous for its Caledonian Forest habitat with pine martens, wildcats and capercaillie. The ponds there also hold wildlife unique to this habitat in Britain, including the Northern damselfly, Coenagrion hastulatum. Of course in March it is too cold for the adult to be on…
Last month on a trip to Scotland I climbed up Mount Cairngorm from the car park and came across some red grouse. A couple posed nicely sometimes on rocks. Some stayed on the heather
Here are some treecreeper shots from Scotland. These are my best shots of this spcies and I managed to get some of the bird probing the bark for food with its long beak.
While at Loch Garten last March I was lucky enough to have some long tailed tits come down and pose on a log briefly.
Here a few shots of a red squirrel that turned up at Loch Garten.
While in Cairngorms in March I suffered an external Hard Drive failure and had to spend a day sorting out recovering files etc. But luckily for me a Song Thrush posed in the garden close than I’d ever seen one and allowed some nice shots of it sunbathing.
The Northern damselfly or Spearhead Bluet Coenagrion hastulatum is a species found only in the Highlands of Scotland in the UK, so when I was up there this March I headed to a known site for them with my pond net to see what I could find. It turned out to be pretty easy to…
When up in the Cairngorms last March I carried out some stream sampling with my net. Among the cranefly larvae with scary looking jaws and the Clinging Mayfly Nymphs, were some impressive looking large stonefly larvae. They were identified by Craig Macadam (Buglife’s Conservation Director) as Perlodes mortoni, the Orange-striped Stonefly. Until recently it was…
Back in March I visited Troupe Head RSPB reserve up in Scotland. There I spent a large amount of my time there trying to get nice shots of the Fulmars. They are fast moving birds, but in good light the K-5 Autofocus did alright and I got some nice shots, icluding this pair chasing each…
Here are the rest of the red squirrel images. I sat for 2 to 3 hours, for 3 mornings, in temperatures down to at least -10C, but sadly the squirrel only came out the first morning! Still these are the best images I have of this charming species.