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Eurasian Lynx

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Toad. Not quite in the hole.

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Common Blue – Polyommatus Icarus, at Troup Head in Scotland

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Colour Matched – Resting Swallow

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Survival of the Fittest – Salmon leaping at the Falls of Shin

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Sea of White – Gulls resting on the river Lossie

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This one is a bit contentious, it shows life as it is, and it isn’t always pretty.

I must confess I have mixed feelings about this image myself, mainly because, as a gardener, I rely on frogs and toads to do their work in the garden, and having witnessed a decline in numbers in recent years already, I was none too pleased to find one of the few left had become supper for this crow.

But such is life, and with Halloween just last Tuesday, I should get away with posting such a gruesome thing. No?

 

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This little fellow is taking advantage of seeds scattered by birds, in May this year. I know spring is a distant memory, but I never tire of our bushy tailed friends  🙂

Free Food – Red Squirrel taking advantage of seeds scattered by birds

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Freesia – There is not much to say about this one, really, except I love freesias, and when the light caught this one I had to pick up the camera…playing with such narrow depth of field still needs work, but hey, there wasn’t much time to loose before the light would disappear so for a quick decision result this isn’t too bad I think. I hope.

Freesia

I was going to publish a drawing commission over on http://www.shadedfaces.wordpress.com today, one that I completed just recently, but I changed my mind when the morning twilight and the dark skies of storm Gertrude presented us with a special treat. They were seen at numerous locations in the north of Scotland today and I later found out that this is a nacreous, or mother-of-pearl cloud, formed high up in the stratosphere which normally has no clouds because it is too cold.

Ursprünglich war für heute die Veröffentlichung einer kürzlich fertiggestellte Zeichnung auf http://www.schattengestalten.wordpress.com vorgesehen. Nach Erscheinen eines hier nicht so häufigen Naturphenomäns habe ich mich aber dazu entschlossen, davon ein Foto hochzuladen. Die Zeichnung gibt’s dann nächste Woche.
Perlmuttwolken, oder polare Stratosphärenwolken, wurden heute im morgendlichen Zwielicht des Sturms ‘Gertrude’ an vielen Orten im Norden Schottlands gesichtet. Konnte ich Euch doch nicht vorenthalten.