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Day 309
The Tamarind
“Then there is the tamarind. I thought tamarinds were made to eat, but that was probably not the idea. I ate several, and it seemed to me...
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Day 318
Protecting the nation's fish.
Under the new Immigration Act (2017) all gulls born in the UK now have to be individually tagged so as to protect our fi...
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Day 5
A day for nostalgia
Any abysmal day - dark, darker, wet and wetter. Any outdoor photograph would be a study in 500 shades of grey. Just the day to wal...
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Day 38
Bonsai maple
My bonsai maple has survived its 10th winter and is in bud once again. #afternoon #wednesday #winter #spring #february #bonsai #maple
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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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Day 125
The transit of Mercury
By far the most interesting thing in my life today was the transit of Mercury. How fortunate we are to live at a time when it i...
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Day 156
Fox and cubs
This is an uprooted plant called Pilosella aurantiaca. Commonly known as fox-and-cubs, orange hawkweed, tawny hawkweed, devil's paintbrus...
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Day 234
Barnacles
Charles Darwin is well known for his meticulous work on the biology of barnacles. The romantic in me imagines him working away happily on th...
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Day 255
ils ne passeront pas!
They shall not pass, well not without first offering up a mince pie. More seriously, "ils ne passeront pas" were the final words...
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Day 272
An inhabitant of the glass aquarium
This is a hand-made glass model of a colonial Hydroid. It is the work of father and son Leopold Blaschka (1822-189...
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Day 281
Concentration
#indoors #afternoon #sunday #people #furniture #child #childhood #learning #january #housing #puzzle-pieces #minor
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Day 289
The Constant Gardener
Nicer Newburgh is a small group of people who maintain our village's flower tubs and troughs and communal planting areas. This i...
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Day 301
Stacking elephants
Today, I started to dabble with focus stacking, with three small ivory elephants. In the photograph, a stack of 20 images, I have t...
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Day 303
A focus-stacked echidna.
And now or something quite different - a focus-stacked photograph of the rear end of a Tasmanian spiny ant-eater, or echidna!...
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Day 324
Super trawlers
Another wander around the ever-interesting harbour at Peterhead. This morning the place was packed with fishing boats presumably taking...
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Day 320
Home!
A detail of the Collieston harbour wall at low-tide. What you see is the whole world for a group of small sea-snails. When the tide is out they...
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Day 334
My, that is a whopper!
From this morning's Aberdeen Press and Journal: "A £50million project to develop a north-east harbour to boost the town’s econo...
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Day 343
A Trowie and Parasols
A rare photograph of a Trowie. Trowies are malignant or mischievous fairies or spirits in the folklore of Scotland, particularly...
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Day 350
That time of the year ....
Halloween is almost upon us and the Grim Reaper is on the prowl. Best keep a low profile! #october #outdoors #afternoon #ev...
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Day 8
The swede and tree
Following the recent floods on the Ythan river Newburgh beach is covered in debris, including uprooted trees and swedes washed out...
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Day 29
Skeletal remains
Just like us, leaves have a skeleton with a beauty all of its own. #trees #afternoon #leaves #monday #death #life #february #skeleton...
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Day 96
The blue narcissus
A couple of days ago my grandson was asking about how plants suck up water from the soil. To try to answer the question, at least i...
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Day 101
A Kelpie
On our way to Spain, via Glasgow Airport, we called in to see the Kelpies at Falkirk.To say that we were impressed would be an understatement...
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Day 152
The cormorant maternity ward
Another beautiful day here today, just the day for a dander along the sea cliffs. The cormorants are still sitting on the...
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