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Some interesting other photos

© 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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