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© Nick Cole (except where stated)
Golden-ringed dragonfly (cordulegaster boltonii), found principally in
the west of Britain and southern England. Here at Pitcarmick
Loch. 29/7/10
A fine stand of Stag's Horn Club Moss (lycopodium clavatum) with well
developed sporophylls. 27/7/10
Cloudberry fruit 6/7/10
Cloudberry (rubus chamaemorus) 22/6/10
Common Butterwort, (Bog Violet or pinguicula Vulgaris) 22/6/10
Chickweed Wintergreen 17/6/10
Pygmy Shrew (dead) 17/6/10
Tormentil (not the smaller creeping tormentil usually seen) Potentilla erecta 17/6/10
Lifting gear in barn today. 4/5/10 ©
Mike Brunton
Just pupated female emperor moth starting to pump up its wings
4/5/10 ©
Mike Brunton
Female emperor moth (saturnia pavonia) on slopes of Craigenloch Hill
27/4/10
Does anyone recognise this? ©
Mike Brunton
An example of why you need to be very careful with snow
bridges! 30/3/10
Slumped cornice over burn, 400m asl. 16/3/10
Enormous cornices above Caenlochan Glen, 7.5km away! 16/3/10
Glaciers on Loch Ordie. 11/3/10
How to start a snow hole - make sure there is plenty of snow!
9/3/10 © Liz
Mason
A couple of minutes later and nearly there.
9/3/10 © Liz
Mason
Just a bit more digging, make a seat and cover the entrance with a couple more
slabs. 9/3/10 ©
Liz Mason
Wind sculpted snow on Badandun Hill 4/3/10
Lines of raised footprints on Badandun Hill 4/3/10
Hare prints on Badandun Hill 4/3/10
Huge hoar crystals on Creag nan Gabhar, just shows that there was no wind overnight or
even a few days! 23/2/10
Aaaaah! Badandun Hill 9/2/10 © Mike
Brunton
Tracks of a grouse as it was taking off, note the wing
feathers 4/2/10
Vole tracks scurrying across the snow, tunnelling then emerging the other side
of the fence 4/2/10
A pair of pure white ptarmigan on Cairnwell 2/2/10
And close up (well... telephoto) © Mike
Brunton
One of a pair of golden eagles over Corrie Fee
28/1/10 © Mike
Brunton
Isotherms and diminishing water table encapsulated in an ice
sheet 15/12/9
Snares don't just catch wild animals - someone's extremely angry and feisty
cat 24/9/9
Sexton beetles (Nicrophorus vespilloides - yellow banded) and Black Burying
Beetles (Nicrophorus humator) on the contents of a hares
stomach 15/9/9
Fox moth caterpillar 25/8/9
Emperor moth caterpillar - prior to pupation 25/8/9
An injured but live adder playing dead 6/8/9
Well..I wasn't going to pick it up was I, and everybody staying well away?
It was only a small snake after all! 6/8/9
Safely into the undergrowth away from passing vehicles 6/8/9
Marsh Fritillary, on Farragon Hill 30/6/9 ©
Mike Brunton
It let us get to within 10m before slowly hopping away! 2/6/9
Curlew chick 2/6/9
Lichen on Creag Dubh Leitir 19/5/9
'The D' at NN995367, with a suspiciously shaped and propped up stone in the
centre of the circle. 28/4/9
Is this the remains of a hut circle? Strangely the same size, but also
aligns NSEW with a range of large stones from its centre 7/4/9
Here it comes 24/2/9
Hercules on a sortie below us 24/2/9
Movie of the second Hercules pt 1 (10MB) 24/2/9 (You
will need Quick Time to view this)
Movie of the second Hercules pt 2 (11MB) 24/2/9 (You
will need Quick Time to view this)
More mysteriously large, round and non-clawed foot prints, this time off
Minister's Path 17/2/9
A good example of a concentric ring hut circle, at Knockali
6/1/9
How some things continue to survive, Hill of Persie 16/12/8
Icicles over a small burn at Pitcarmick 11/12/8
Lots of strange and large footprints including these next to a size 10
boot! Cat Law 9/12/8
Juniper and berries on the north face of Morrone 18/11/8
Ptarmigan starting their winter moult on Carn an Tuirc 12/9/8
Freedom! 12/9/8
Waking up after a night with the vet 12/9/8
Nearly caught it! (pm 11th - Vet says it is doing ok, maybe
releasable on 12th) 11/9/8 ©
Sue
Cole
A young Tawny Owl looking a bit bemused and bedraggled 11/9/8
19 Munros (not counting the ones in the ranges hidden from view), 7 Corbetts visible from near Mackenzie's Monument (near Newtyle)
4/9/8
Meadow grasshopper (Chorthippus parallelus vividulus) 2/9/8
Fairly obvious what this bird had eaten 2/9/8
After the eruption (actually a few million years ago!) in Choire Dhirich
28/8/8
Staghorn Club-Moss 19/8/8
Tadpoles in mid-August! 14/8/8
Emperor Moth caterpillar before final pupation this one on heather 7/8/8
Emperor Moth caterpillar before penultimate pupation on a dwarf willow 2/9/8
Crowberry 16/9/8
Blaeberry, and cowberry together 1/8/8
It was hiding in sheep's dung, a Dor beetle (geotrupes stercorarius) not related
to a scarab 15/5/8
Remains of a vole's skull (microtus agrestis) on moss 15/5/8
Couldn't find this one in the books, perhaps it is a beetle
larva? 15/5/8
This wasn't in my books as well, though it looks a bit like a violet and may be
a mountain pansy! 15/5/8
Monamenach about to erupt after millions of years! 1/5/8 (or
should that be 1/4/8?)
Where not to walk! 3/3/8
Hare and fox tracks 3/3/8
What was chasing what? 3/3/8
Alyth Hill, Drumderg and the Beinn a Ghlo range from our kitchen
window 2/3/8
A shrew run, too small to be a vole 28/1/7
A favourite perch with smaller pellets 28/1/8
A large owl pellet, just as well they regurgitate! 28/1/8
Line of large prints on Black Hill. There is definitely something large
out there! (See also 12/2/7) 21/1/8
Large paw print with no claws! The beast of Drimmie
Wood. 6/12/7
Icicles on Carn Geal 12/11/7
Hill forts at An Dun NO111593 27/8/7
More interested in the heifer than us - fortunately! 20/8/7
Real white heather 13/8/7
Cup marked stone at Dalnavaid NO008634 24/7/7
Skylark's nest 2/7/7
Bees swarming in a hedge 3/6/7
A new style of stile, on the hill of Newtyle 14/5/7
Pine Marten scat 9/5/7
Born last night 23/4/7
Larch flower (Larix Decidua) - female 16/4/7
Looks like a bird pellet, most likely a small piece of fox scat 16/4/7
Fox scat 16/4/7
A fine collection of Hoof Fungus or Tinder Bracket (Fomes Fomentarius)
How can I perform in front of this audience, we are an endangered species you
know!
Burying (Sexton) Beetles at work (Nicrophorus Vespilloides)
Horse Stone, Drimmie Woods
Inversion Layer over Blairgowrie
Butterwort (Pinguicula Vulgaris)
Round-leaved Sundew (Drosera rotundifolia)
Cup Marked Stone on Drumderg

Line of broad footprints, no human ones
associated, and no claws! Above Kirkton of Glenisla on slope of Druim
Dearg heading towards the NW. (12/2/7)
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