Images from mainly around my home patch here in Edinburgh with a couple of ventures further north for some season specialities
1/The local dog Fox has been great all summer and its been amazing watching him turn from looking like a skinny scraggy looking thing in his summer fur to now growing into his winter coat and looking more foxy everyday!
2/Always on edge due to dogs and dog walkers which bound through the woodlands
3/Nice view from here
4/July means it`s a trip north for the seasonal highlight for me for the last 15+ years...Ospreys and a new location at a friends recently opened Osprey hide near Huntly...some great results particularly with this young bird making several what appear practive dives throughout the day
5/The best part being we managed to capture it from so many different directions giving great variety
6/Before a head on for its final dive and making off with a fish
7/The pond also has a few other species hanging around firstly a group of Red Deer Stags including this lad who has managed to get his antlers tangled with hay baling twine by look of things,probably while trying to scratch of the velvet from his antlers
8/Swallows and Housemartins provide a great subject to hone in your tracking and panning skills while waiting for Ospreys to appear
9/Swallow in for the kill
10/And plenty Housemartins
11/Badgers.....Always great to see especially in daylight and i`ve been very lucky the last couple of months
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13/Be interesting to see how their behaviour is now Autumn has arrived and wether early appearances before dark continue!
14/Another trip away from Edinburgh saw me on a boat cruising up and down Loch Shiel on the West Coast to see and photograph White Tailed Sea Eagles,the weather couldn`t have been any better!
15/3 pairs of birds were seen on the trip including this bird landing near that years nest which the young had already fledged from earlier in the summer
16/You can`t post WTSE shots without the standard about to grab something image can you?
17/Visits to the local river have been curtailed a little as its not a great time with vegetation so think but still managed a visit to get this Kingfisher early 1 morning
18/An evening out in Perth next on the lookout for some Beaver lol ... managed to find them but sadly just as the light was failing but managed to capture this 1 shot
19/A great couple of months for some of the UK owls around where I live,2 sets of Long Eared Owls kept men busy for a couple of evenings
20/A young Owlet using its tracking system on a fly early 1 morning
21/Head on hunting adult bird
22/Another young bird hiding in the trees with the leaves saving the backlit image
23/Short Eared Owls were also present at the same location but not as close to where we would stand
24/At last a Tawny Owl which has been hiding near where I see my fox and badgers made the mistake of flying from 1 tree to the other and being seen....quickly changed lens and captured a couple of frames
25/Mousey making an appearance beside the Badger sett,and providing a good food source for the Tawny Owl
26/And to finish the Quarter a visit to Dunbar to photograph a lost bird.....Steppe Grey Shrike which appeared with the birds being native to central asia and northern China...such a great bird to photograph
27/Making short work of the local Wasp population before moving on a week or so ago
As Always thanks for taking the time to have a look
Cheers
Ross
