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Willpar wrote: Tue Sep 15, 2026 8:41 am Very nice Snappy.

Thanks William

Linda257 wrote: Tue Sep 15, 2026 7:36 am Its good SM....but it's no a bullfinch

I know... It has a redish tinge

PimperneBloke wrote: Tue Sep 15, 2026 7:35 am Nice shot for what looked a grey day!

Thanks PB I had to nip back to the car to get my camera...

Red-breasted Merganser (Mergus serrator)

Photo taken at: Isle Ornsay Harbour, Skye, Scotland https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isleornsay

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Red-breasted Merganser (Mergus serrator) by SnappyMac , on Flickr

Species Information: https ...

Linda257 wrote: Mon Sep 14, 2026 10:25 am Och hes allowed...just this once!! (He set up my camera for me ) but he never got his bullfinch...canny be too generous now

Still need a bullfinch, didn't find ant at Hauxley Nature Reserve either...

Linda257 wrote: Mon Sep 14, 2026 9:39 am Common as muck in Oban...still seething over the eagle

Thanks Linda It is a good spot for them and the eagles

Lovely shot Snappy, there were a few in Bergen when we did the cruise last year, and one or two reports at Portland over the last few years, other than that only seen them in Scotland 😀
Thanks PB, I have only definitely seen and photographed them in Scotland... :) I have vague recollections of ...

Willpar wrote: Mon Sep 14, 2026 8:29 am Hardly ever see them here. Great one Snappy.

Thanks William, we don't see them at all locally.

Hooded Crow (Corvus cornix)

Photo taken at: Oban, Scotland https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oban


Hooded Crow (Corvus cornix) by SnappyMac, on Flickr

Species Information: https://www.rspb.org.uk/birds-and-wildl ... iled-eagle

Linda257 wrote: Sun Sep 13, 2026 8:16 pm But then.....you never saw any last year when you were up so you can have that one!

Thanks Linda