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I live in Edinburgh in Scotland, I enjoy taking wildlife photos mainly birds. I am now on my 7th year which highlights my daily interaction with a young Heron at a nearby loch.
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2 streak
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Tufted Duck
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Black Headed Gull
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Day 2,250
Swan
Just a Swan #theme-golden
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Young Grey Heron
The young Heron was waiting on the grass for me. She was right in the middle of the fallen leaves and I knew that would make it hard...
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Day 2,354
swan
No young heron today, She didn't appear. A Cygnet instead.
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Young Grey Heron
When I went up to the loch this morning it was blowing a gale! There was no sign whatsoever of the young Heron. In fact there was ver...
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Young Grey Heron
It was me that spotted the young Heron today. She was in the water at the side of the viewing platform and her view was blocked by a...
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Young Grey Heron
The young heron flew over from the water this morning (the crow had already followed me in from near the entrance). They both had the...
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Day 2,490
Young Grey Heron
The young heron with the other female. She was still reluctant to eat when she was around but if I threw the other female's whitebait...
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Young Grey Heron
Three of the heron were around this morning. My one flew down from the dovecote and met me at the entrance to the park. She walked me...
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Young Grey Heron
There was no sign of the young one or the older female this morning. I did see the male though. Work is going on at the other side of...
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Day 2,535
Young Grey Heron
The young one met me at the gate this morning. She had quite a bit of her whitebait then spotted a woman coming into the park with a...
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Day 2,553
Young Grey Heron
I went up to the loch with MrsD this morning. The young one flew over to the edge of the loch and had a feed on sardines and pollock....
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The Young Heron
Relatively trouble free this morning. No Swans or Geese. Just the magpie who made off with a bit of fish! #theme-mono
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Young Grey Heron
The wanderer returns. A nice surprise waiting at the clearing! Not really a great surprise as it is consistently 3 days she is away f...
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Rat
The lochside is probably full of them. More recently I regularly see them coming onto the pathway to feed on anything that has been dropped or not...
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Greylag Goose
A Greylag goose today. Still no sign of the young Heron. Whilst I have still not given up on her returning I am OK if she doesn't! It ha...
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Day 2,255
Water colour
A flipped reflection #theme-golden
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Young Grey Heron
The young heron was waiting for me again today at the same spot. Someone had just thrown a load of bread nearby and the gulls were go...
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Young Grey Heron
The young Heron spotted me and flew over to the grass. She then started to walk towards me. I didn't want her getting too close to th...
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Young grey Heron
As I was approaching the loch today. I saw the young Heron flying over head. She turned and landed just in front of me. There were a...
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Young grey heron
I made my way up to the loch as it was getting light. I couldn't see the Young Heron on the platform near the middle of the loch so c...
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Day 2,455
Young Grey Heron
Like yesterday the young heron was in the water this morning but flew over as soon as she saw me. She had her fish then flew back to...
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Day 2,471
Grey Herons
A split photo today of the two herons. Mrs D accompanied me this morning to see the young heron. She had never witnessed the heron flying...