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PB180013.JPG (1319232 bytes)    Juniper and berries on the north face of Morrone    18/11/8

100_3519.JPG (1057908 bytes)    Ptarmigan starting their winter moult on Carn an Tuirc    12/9/8

100_3514.JPG (1395398 bytes)    Freedom!    12/9/8

100_3507.JPG (1248677 bytes)    Waking up after a night with the vet    12/9/8

100_3496.JPG (1703715 bytes)    Nearly caught it!    (pm 11th - Vet says it is doing ok, maybe releasable on 12th)    11/9/8    (Sue Cole)

100_3497.JPG (2360564 bytes)    A young Tawny Owl looking a bit bemused and bedraggled    11/9/8

100_3447.JPG (1468164 bytes)    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

100_3440.JPG (818935 bytes)    Meadow grasshopper (Chorthippus parallelus vividulus)    2/9/8

100_3427.JPG (686780 bytes)    Fairly obvious what this bird had eaten    2/9/8

100_3417.JPG (395172 bytes) After the eruption (actually a few million years ago!) in Choire Dhirich    28/8/8

100_3393.JPG (2375550 bytes)    Staghorn Club-Moss    19/8/8

100_3380.JPG (1097535 bytes)    Tadpoles in mid-August!    14/8/8

100_3347.JPG (840482 bytes)    Emperor Moth caterpillar before final pupation this one on heather   7/8/8

100_3435.JPG (626720 bytes)    Emperor Moth caterpillar before penultimate pupation on a dwarf willow    2/9/8

100_3517.JPG (1630723 bytes)    Crowberry    16/9/8

100_3276.JPG (1684395 bytes)    Blaeberry, and cowberry together    1/8/8

100_2750.JPG (1824197 bytes)    It was hiding in sheep's dung, a Dor beetle (geotrupes stercorarius) not related to a scarab   15/5/8

100_2745.JPG (1529991 bytes)    Remains of a vole's skull (microtus agrestis) on moss    15/5/8

100_2757.JPG (1869995 bytes)    Couldn't find this one in the books, perhaps it is a beetle larva?    15/5/8

100_2742.JPG (647359 bytes)     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

100_2693.JPG (717755 bytes)    Monamenach about to erupt after millions of years!    1/5/8 (or should that be 1/4/8?)

100_2398.JPG (1004648 bytes)    Where not to walk!    3/3/8

100_2394.JPG (449846 bytes)    Hare and fox tracks    3/3/8

100_2381.JPG (469591 bytes)    What was chasing what?    3/3/8

100_2376.JPG (558253 bytes)    Alyth Hill, Drumderg and the Beinn a Ghlo range from our kitchen window    2/3/8

100_2225.JPG (1975036 bytes)    A shrew run, too small to be a vole    28/1/7

100_2221.JPG (1186380 bytes)    A favourite perch with smaller pellets    28/1/8

100_2218.JPG (975193 bytes)    A large owl pellet, just as well they regurgitate!    28/1/8

100_2192.JPG (530638 bytes)    Line of large prints on Black Hill.  There is definitely something large out there!    (See also 12/2/7) 21/1/8

100_1920.JPG (1353247 bytes)    Large paw print with no claws!  The beast of Drimmie Wood.    6/12/7

100_1800.JPG (3248784 bytes)    Icicles on Carn Geal    12/11/7

100_1442.JPG (1397127 bytes)    Hill forts at An Dun NO111593    27/8/7

100_1434.JPG (1265450 bytes)    More interested in the heifer than us - fortunately!    20/8/7

100_1388.JPG (2704365 bytes)    Real white heather    13/8/7

100_1135.JPG (2309772 bytes)    Cup marked stone at Dalnavaid NO008634    24/7/7

100_1084.JPG (1983597 bytes)    Skylark's nest    2/7/7

100_1024.JPG (1358583 bytes)    Bees swarming in a hedge    3/6/7

100_0969.JPG (2532112 bytes)    A new style of stile, on the hill of Newtyle    14/5/7

100_0968.JPG (3174262 bytes)    Pine Marten scat    9/5/7

100_0822.JPG (1726400 bytes)    Born last night    23/4/7

100_0787.JPG (603006 bytes)    Larch flower (Larix Decidua) - female    16/4/7

100_0796.JPG (2923803 bytes)    Looks like a bird pellet, most likely a small piece of fox scat    16/4/7

100_0800.JPG (2498300 bytes)    Fox scat    16/4/7

100_0726.JPG (2159004 bytes) A fine collection of Hoof Fungus or Tinder Bracket (Fomes Fomentarius)

100_0742.JPG (1318271 bytes)    How can I perform in front of this audience, we are an endangered species you know!

100_4679.JPG (1514854 bytes)    Burying (Sexton) Beetles at work (Nicrophorus Vespilloides)

100_5407.JPG (1457968 bytes)    Horse Stone, Drimmie Woods

100_5447.JPG (333689 bytes)    Inversion Layer over Blairgowrie

100_4680.JPG (1426860 bytes)    Butterwort (Pinguicula Vulgaris)

100_4829.JPG (1326386 bytes)    Round-leaved Sundew (Drosera rotundifolia)

100_4720.JPG (1686389 bytes)    Cup Marked Stone on Drumderg

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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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