Images from Scotland…

 …part three. The fields around and near to the cottage we stay in while in Scotland are full of wildlife here is just some of that wildlife.

A Brown Hare enjoying the late afternoon sun.

I don’t think I have seen as many Song Thrush this is one of a pair which had a nest in a bush near the top of the garden.

We went on a short walk down the lane from the cottage and found this Spotted Flycatcher.

On the same walk, we saw this bonny male Wheatear.

And another Song Thrush was looking for worms.

In the sky above the cottage are Buzzards

This one has seen something.

It is a Raven

Which promptly escorted the Buzzard away over the wood.

Another Buzzard checking out the field below.

This Red Deer stag appeared on the hillside in the distance.

The rest of the stags arrived and were in the field on most evenings.

Taken over a week…

…ago now before the weather turned here are some more of the Long-eared Owl out hunting.

Roe Deer Stag

 

The Red Deer rut……

……had not quite started when we went to Fountains Abbey at the weekend but I took some shots anyway. Weather permitting I will try again this weekend.

Red Deer Stag

This young male was sniffing and tasting the air as he could smell the stag in the picture above. He had already been chased off by this bigger stag so he left well alone.

Another young male

A fourth stag

An even younger one

Red Deer female

Young male Fallow Deer



 

More from Mull

Loch Na Keal had a pair of Golden Eagle, which gave very distant views. Then it was a walk around the bay of Craignure looking for Otters, didn’t see one but Hooded Crows were around. There were also a few Common Gull with chicks, the adult gulls attacked if you got to close so I backed off.
At Grasspoint, there were loads of Orchids and Golden-ringed Dragonfly, and a Beautiful Demoiselle Damselfly
A couple of Red Deer Stag were seen on the way to Croggan where we went looking for Otters again, and yet again none were seen however Ringed Plover were running around on the shoreline. On the way back from Croggan, we came across this Common Sandpiper calling from a tree branch. Back at the cottage, our host Geoff had this Garden Tiger Moth, which he and his son had kept from a caterpillar, for me to photograph, a nice surprise on our return.

Golden Eagle

 

Hooded Crow

Common Gull

Common Gull Chick

Common Gull

Golden-ringed Dragonfly



Beautiful Demoiselle Damselfly



Orchid

Red Deer Stag

 

Ringed Plover

Ringed Plover

Common Sandpiper

 

Common Sandpiper

 

Garden Tiger Moth

Garden Tiger Moth