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Monday's Critters

Last of the seal shots... and the best, of course 😤

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MOONdays

An early-summer moon waxes over the West of the Bonny Land.

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Saturday Symmetry

Grand Victorian architecture... Glasgow Central Station and hotel, to be exact.

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"The exploration that awaits you... not mapping stars and studying nebulae, but charting the unknown possibilities of existence."
(Leonard Nimoy)

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Can it be, is it true? Yup. Last Thursday today.

Did it to the insects last month, did it to the water plants this month. Polarisation. 

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Wings on Wednesday - 

YAM's take on the good, the bad, the ugly and the downright hilarious in photographing birds.

Lens was at full stretch and also had to cut in a bit to try and get a better view of those two larger birds. The large ID book we had with us didn't really help - neither did the binoculars. The nearest I can come to is that it is a pair of female Common Scoter, which live only in the NW region of Scotland. Can't really define the colouring from this shot, but naked eye did show lighter tone around neck... per this image from RSPB site. They are on the "Red Status", as there are only about 50 breeding pairs!

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Shipping by...

The Hurst Point is a slightly unusual looking cargo vessel. Hadn't seen her before or since.

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Monday's Critters

Yup, we're back with those seals!

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SUNdays

When I took this one out of camera I was left pondering for a while. Then remembered it was taken through a glass door... and the light was on in the room behind!

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Saturday Symmetry

It's a bridge for human traffic only.

Well... humans and dogs. Maybe a sheep or two.

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"I believe that the plight of life is to master one's self... you know... one day at a time."
(CeeLo Green)

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There it is again. Thursday... comes and goes like the tide

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Wings on Wednesday - 

YAM's take on the good, the bad, the ugly and the downright hilarious in photographing birds.

Eider and oyster catchers... and two larger birds which had me puzzled... close up next week.

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Shipping by...

The 'Headway' UL3 fishing boat moored in Ullapool. As you will see from that link, she has been re-numbered; presumably ... the "BF" of her original number suggests she was domiciled in Banff (East coast).

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Monday's Critters

There will be more seals, but thought I'd give you a break and show another group of critters you will see plenty of here... sheep and cattle. I luvz me some cattle - especially of the Highland kind!

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SUNdays

Standard on the West Coast of Scotland...

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Saturday Symmetry

...doesn't really need words, does it?..

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"The continued existence of wildlife and wilderness is important to the quality of life of humans."
(Jim Fowler)

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Here's another Thursday come round at us...

Could've put this one into Sat/Sym... but what the hey...

This is a wall on the St Mary's Uni campus, Halifax, NS.

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Wings on Wednesday - 

YAM's take on the good, the bad, the ugly and the downright hilarious in photographing birds.

Up at the Skelbo cottage, we found the hedge and garden shrubs alive with nesting birds of varies types - but the sparrows were by far the most prolific. Here, a fledgling scores breakfast...

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Shipping by...

This is not the same vessel which has appeared the past two weeks... it is about one third the size; but the configuration is much the same. This one was spotted up at Ullapool.

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Monday's Critters

As mentioned last week, there are going to be a few of these...

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SUNdays

Dograys over the Assynt, mountains of NW Scotland... "Suilven" is the rounded peak to right.

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Saturday Symmetry

Tiled flooring in a Scottish kirk

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"The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free, your very existence is an act of rebellion."
(Albert Camus)

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Again we arrive at Thursday...

A fountain ripples, refreshing the meditation space

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Wings on Wednesday -
YAM's take on the good, the bad, the ugly and the downright hilarious of photographing birds.

The local jackdaw couple have been attentive and loving again over the spring...

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Shipping by...

...it's a fishing boat. Just in case you were guessing...

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Monday's Critters

Prepare yourselves, there will be many sightings of same over the next few weeks.
The Harbour (or Common) seals at Loch Fleet, NE Scotland, were plentiful and playful!

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SUNdays

This was taken from the plane at Edinburgh airport back in January... it was -3'C out there...Sunrise at 0820h

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Saturday Symmetry

Who doesn't love a well decorated window?