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30th August 2015
Aberlady
Another sunny warm day. Very few birds around. The tide was well out.
However, after only a five minute walk we came across what can only be
described as ' insect alley'. We spent over an hour here. Butterflies,
Bugs, Flies were around in abundance. We moved on eventually, hoping to
find a bird or two, but we left disappointed. The Nikon D5200 stayed in
the bag.
| 7 Spot Ladybird |
Common Blue Butterfly |
Common Grasshopper |
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| Wasp Dyspetes_praerogator |
Grey_mining_bee |
Fly - Mydaea_setifemur |
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| Peacock Butterfly |
Bug - potato_capsid |
Red Admiral Butterfly |
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16th August 2015
Turnberry
A very sunny and hot Sunday on the West Coast. A delightful walk
through the golf course to the lighthouse gave us the Common Blue
butterfly. There were many flitting about here. At the lighthouse we
were treated once again to beautiful Gannets flying very close.
A group of female Eider were feeding just below us. On the way back I
spotted what turned out to be a newbie for the site, a Sheep's Bit
Scabious.
| Common Blue Butterfly |
Female |
Common Eider |
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| Cormorant |
Gannet |
Sheep's Bit Scabious |
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9th August 2015
Port Seton
Pleasant weather in the East today. Quite a small promenade area 30 mts
from the high street. Much of the activity on the promenade was generated by the Sandwich Terns flying off to fish
and returning to feed their youngsters. A great deal of noise came from
youngsters squawking a recognition signal to the returning parent.
| Curlew |
Lesser Black Backed Gull |
Common Tern |
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| Ringed Plover |
Juvenile Sandwich Tern |
Adult feeding juvenile |
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2nd August 2015
Stevenston, Ayrshire
A trip to the West Coast today as the weather is not too great in the East.
Rather quiet today but a couple of usual suspects turned up.
| Cormorant |
Oystercatcher |
Turnstone |
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