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Wings on Wednesday - 

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

Another angle on the plumage of a first-year Herring gull. Last one of this type, for now, I promise. 

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 Shipping by...

...training area for 'abandon ship'..?! That's all quite new equipment but I could find nothing about it.

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 Monday's Critters

Mitwa was one of B1's pups - with mainly Pariah genetics you can see the stance, the colouration and the less domesticated features.

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 MOONdays

As seen from an Edinburgh window...

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 Saturday Symmetry

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"If you go through life without finding beauty in unexpected places, then you really have a sad existence."
(Octavia Spencer)

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 It's the last one for this month - you know, Thursdays...

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Wings on Wednesday - 

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

There were a lot of juvenile Herring gulls around on Greenock harbour that day last month. They are so attractive!

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 Shipping by...

The 'full-bodied' picture of the Provider...

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 Monday's Critters

Dilip was one of Bs's pups who did survive a bit longer than most. Then one day he wasn't there... dogs v territory...

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 SUNdays

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 Saturday Symmetry

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18 I said in mine heart concerning the estate of the sons of men, that God might manifest them, and that they might see that they themselves are beasts.
19 For that which befalleth the sons of men befalleth beasts; even one thing befalleth them: as the one dieth, so dieth the other; yea, they have all one breath; so that a man hath no preeminence above a beast: for all is vanity.

(Ecclesiastes ch 3)

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 ... Thursday. Are you keeping up?

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Wings on Wednesday - 

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

A 'first year' Herring Gull, displaying all the delicious markings of the juvenile very nicely!

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 Shipping by...

The 'Lastdrager y' is part of a fleet of barges out of The Netherlands - basically, just waterborne trailers which are moved around by various other vessels - in this case, a Clyde tug.

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 Monday's Critters

Aditya was one of the two 'guardian' dogs of the ashram; neutered and fed from the kitchen. He was handsome and knew it!

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 SUNdays

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 Saturday Symmetry

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 "Perfection is achieved not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away."

(Antoine de Saint-Exupery)

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 Thursdays. They must be good for something...

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Wings on Wednesday - 

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

There are going to be a few gull piccies over the next few weeks - it's about all I've seen! 

Lesser Black-backed gulls investigate hopefully.

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 Shipping by...

The Colintraive-Rhubodach RORO ferry... the back end is barely up before the front end is landing the other side.

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 Monday's Critters

For September's critters, a mini-series featuring some of the ashram dogs. 

The Indian Pariah, when in the pure breed, is an aloof and rather noble critter. Many of the city and other large urban areas now have the Heinz 57 variety of dog, though, which results in many colour and size variations.

B2 worked hard at being a mum. Not many of her pups made it to weaning...

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 SUNdays

A rare burst of sunshine illuminated the ferry gangway.

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 Saturday Symmetry

The wheelhouse of a small fishing craft in Greenock harbour.

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"The internal machinery of life, the chemistry of the parts, is something beautiful. And it turns out that all life is interconnected with all other life." 
(Richard P. Feynman)

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 Somehow it is fitting that we fall into the short end of the [blog] year (only 165 to go) on a Thursday. It's that kind of day.

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Wings on Wednesday - 

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

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 Shipping by...