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Day 88
An old bird
It is extremely cold today, despite it being Summer time! Just the day for a photograph of one of my Inuit stone carvings. This one of a s...
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Day 87
Weathercock opportunity
Quite some time ago the Weathercock on the village church fell off his perch. Early this morning we held auditions for his rep...
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Day 86
The red spot
The red spot on a herring gull's beak has played an important, but controversial role in the study of animal behaviour. John Whitfield wr...
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Day 85
A colonial animal
Another photograph of a marine Bryozoan, possibly Flustra foliacea although I'm not sure. Bryozoans are tiny animals that belong to...
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Day 84
The Zenith
This small, very small, boat although registered in Peterhead is currently hauled out at the harbour of Port Errol at Cruden Bay. The verti...
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Day 83
A crucifix from far away.
And it was about the sixt houre, and there was a darkenesse ouer all the earth, vntill the ninth houre. And the Sunne was da...
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Day 82
To any dead officer
A cross for Good Friday and a reminder that we are in the middle of commemorating the centenary of the Great War. ........... "Goo...
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Day 81
We are surely doomed!
I popped out very early this morning to attempt to photograph the Moon and Jupiter with my pocket camera. Just as I pressed the...
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Day 80
A guiding light
A view of Robert Stevenson's magnificent 1827 lighthouse at Buchan Ness, the most north easterly point on the British Mainland #aftern...
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Day 79
The Harkand Da Vinci
There were some impressive ships in Peterhead this morning including this, the Harkand Da Vinci. Built in 2011 in South Korea and...
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Day 78
The Cloud
Apparently all of our photographs are stored somewhere in a cloud. I wonder if this is the one? #afternoon #monday #cloud #march #storage #p...
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Day 77
Satanic toenail clippings.
If the Devil really must trim his toenails in our kitchen then all that I ask is that he sweep up the clippings before he l...
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Day 76
A flower called testicle
It doesn't seem very long ago that to see a tropical orchid was a rare privilege; now, of course, the garden centres and supe...
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Day 75
Weighing in the pre-digital age.
In this increasingly digital age there is probably an app for all conceivable tasks. How things have changed in my li...
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Day 74
St Patrick's Day, 2016
This is the best I can do to celebrate St Patrick's Day, the handle of my blackthorn shillelagh set against a background of fal...
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Day 73
The blue button
Commonly known as the blue button, Porpita porpita is a marine organism. It occurs in tropical and sub-tropical waters of the Pacific,...
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Day 72
In a country kirkyard
Part of the glebe behind Foveran Parish Church The slopes leading down to the Foveran Burn are currently carpeted with an ancien...
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Day 71
The crocus
Three winters ago our village gardening group spent several very muddy days planting 1000s of crocus bulbs. We are now reaping the benefits...
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Day 70
Beach combing
The two shell valves of a common cockle, Cerastoderma edule, cast up on the fore-shore. #afternoon #sunday #beach #march #newburgh #cock...
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Day 69
Marram grass under the microscope
The photograph shows a stained, thin cross section of the leaf of marram grass Ammophila arenaria. #afternoon #satur...
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Day 68
Hazel's sex life
The Hazels are well into flower, spring must be here. Hazel trees are monoecious, with both male and female flowers on the same tree....
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Day 67
If you go down in the woods today ...
The fungi are pretty thin on the ground at this time of the year. All I could find this morning was this little...
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Day 66
Waste not want not
Each morning we pour part of our pensions into the bird feeders outside our kitchen window. A few seconds later the starlings arriv...
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Day 65
Once more into the micro-world
Once more a dip into the microscopic world; this time a look at a thin slice of a thyroid gland. The mammalian thyroid...
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