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Starting from number eleven there are five new photographs on…

Starting from number eleven there are five new photographs on the Photo Page.

Here is a photo of Houghton Mill – in Cambridgeshire. A friend took it and it is very similar to an official photo of the mill but quite a few differences – Rosie’s Mum in Toronto

Trying to get the hang of new camera:

Young raccoon in the local ravine – Rosie’s Mum

Lobelia on our balcony – Rosie’s Mum

Rosalee – Rosie’s Mum

Golden Eagle to go with the article below that I found after reading Janette – Cheshire entry on the Forum.

Not to sure if Janette is correct about no breeding pairs of Golden Eagles left in the UK. I did speak to a person on the Isle of Mull about a year ago trying to do a webcam.

Game shooting is by far the most cruel bloodsport. Worse than hunting with dogs. The big shooting estates in England and Scotland are run solely for profit. There is no consideration given to any wildlife that gets in the way. Birds of prey do take Grouse but the easy answer is to release more birds to allow for those taken by birds of prey.

Golden eagle tagged in conservation plan found poisoned to death

Alma, a golden eagle tracked on conservationist website, vanished in early July and was found poisoned to death today

Police raided a Highland grouse moor today after a golden eagle that had been satellite-tagged as part of a government-funded project was found poisoned with illegal pesticides.

The grouse moor, keepers’ cottages and vehicles on the Millden estate near Brechin in Angus were searched under warrant after Tayside police and wildlife crime investigators raided the property early this morning. There were no arrests, and no one from the estate was available for comment.

The estate is run by Nick Baikie, a grouse moor manager who was previously employed by Mark Osborne, an Oxfordshire-based chartered surveyor. Grouse moors run by Osborne in Scotland and England have previously been raided by police investigating alleged wildlife crime offences.

The bird, known to conservationists as Alma, was a young female golden eagle whose daily movements had been tracked on the website of one of Scotland’s leading conservationists, Roy Dennis, as it flew over the Cairngorms.

The daily records on Dennis’s website ended on 2 July, the second anniversary of its tagging in 2007 on the Glenfeshie estate in the Highlands, as part of a long-term study into their behaviour and breeding.

Alma had flown up to 130 miles from her eyrie in the Cairngorms national park, reaching as far north as Loch Maree in Wester Ross. She was found dead in deep heather, with her adult plumage beginning to appear from under her moulting juvenile feathers, Dennis said.

“We’re just terribly, terribly disappointed,” he said. “It’s just tragic because, as the months went by this bird became more and more interesting. Hundreds of people had been following her, and she is nationally known. It just beggars belief that she has been poisoned.

“It’s difficult enough to be an eagle anyway, but to have this extra burden is just appalling. I’m in favour of hunting but it has to be done ecologically and ethically, and this is totally unacceptable.”

Superintendent Ewen West, of Tayside police, said: ”The golden eagle was part of a project being undertaken by Scottish National Heritage. The bird was being continuously tracked and when her movements came to an abrupt stop at the beginning of July suspicions were raised that she had died. Sadly, she had been illegally poisoned.”

Golden eagles may be deliberately targeted by gamekeepers who want to stop any birds of prey eating grouse or pheasant, but the species normally fall prey to poisoned baits which are laid out on sporting estates to kill other birds of prey, including hen harriers, white-tailed eagles and buzzards.

Roseanna Cunningham, the Scottish environment minister, said: “I am truly appalled that yet another golden eagle has been illegally killed in Scotland – the second this summer. Illegal poisoning is simply inexcusable and while the perpetrators are certainly beneath contempt they are in no way above the law.

“Poisoning of course poses serious animal welfare risks, but these offences also damage Scotland’s tourism industry our economy and can even tarnish the reputations of those working in our countryside within the law.

“The fact this eagle was tagged and the Scottish public were actively engaged in its progress, only makes this case all the more galling. The loss of this magnificent animal is a real blow to Scotland, particularly as we are renowned world-wide for our incredible wildlife.”

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Starting from number six there are five new photographs on…

Starting from number six there are five new photographs on the Photo Page.

Oystercatcher,Bantry Bay,Southern Ireland. Lindsay.

Little Egret,Bantry Bay in Southern Ireland. Lindsay.

Sea Pink everywhere in May on the Outer Hebrides. Lindsay.

The Torridon Mountains. North West Scotland. Lindsay.

Entrance to Loch Ness at Fort Augustus,the Highlands of Scotland. Lindsay.

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Starting from number six there are five new photographs on…

Starting from number six there are five new photographs on the Photo Page.

The white sands of Morar. Scotland. Janice.

Ben Nevis (the one with the snow) Janice.

Eilian Donan Castle, Scotland. Janice.

The Jacobite train from Fort William. The train was used in Harry Potter films as the Hogwarts
Expres. I got out to catch this and was covered in midges in seconds, my husband didn’t want to let me back in the car!!! Janice.

Looking down the hill to Ullapool. Janice (Leeds)

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Starting from number one there are five new photographs on…

Starting from number one there are five new photographs on the Photo page from Lindsay. There will be five from Lynne tomorrow.

Glen Coe,the Highlands of Scotland. Lindsay.

Rannoch Moor one of the most inhospitable and dangerous places in the Highlands of Scotland. Lindsay.

Going off to catch the fish.Mallaig harbour,North West Scotland. Lindsay.

The Butt of Lewis in the Outer Hebrides North West Scotland. Lindsay.

The atmosphere was so clean the rocks were covered in these lovely lichens.The Butt of Lewis. Lindsay.

We are still finding it hard to believe that there are Geese back on the Lake. We have been thinking of where they may have nested. For sure it was the pair of Geese that were back and forward on the Lake while the first pair were incubating their eggs. There is no where that they could have nested without being in as much, if not more danger than the first pair of Geese. the first pair had the refuge of the Lake if they thought that they were in danger.

Last night we tried to make the Lake safer than it was for the Geese. We put up a gate on the far bank on the left hand side. Where we put the two gates on the far bank on the right hand side to try to protect the first Geese, we have put up another gate next to them leaning against the post that the camera is installed on, it is going into the Lake for about three feet. On the nearside we have electric fenced a large area as we did with the first pair. To get to the Geese a Fox would have to climb over gates, get a shock from the electric fencer or go into the Lake. All options will make some noise that would hopefully make the Geese take refuge on the Lake, that is of course if it is a Fox. Other than sitting up all night with them, there is nothing else we can do, and I am not into that one.

On our way to Minehead there are a pair of Geese with seven Goslings. They are about ten feet from a busy road with a supermarket opposite. They are living on a stream no larger than ours. The Gosling had hatched before our first pair, up to a couple of days ago all have survived.

A joke sent in by Elsie.

It is hard to find a joke today without a dirty word or two in it, but here is one:

Two tall trees, a birch and a beech, are growing in the woods.
A small tree begins to grow between them, and the beech says to the birch,
“Is that a son of a beech or a son of a birch?”
The birch says he cannot tell.

Just then a woodpecker lands on the sapling.
The birch says, “Woodpecker, you are a tree expert.
Can you tell whether that is a son of a beech or a son of a birch?”

The woodpecker takes a taste of the small tree.
He replies, “It is neither a son of a beech nor a son of a birch.
It is, however, the best piece of ash I have ever put my pecker in.”

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Starting from number six there are five new photographs on…

Starting from number six there are five new photographs on the Photo page from Lindsay. There will be five from Vicky tomorrow.

A Fulmar on a nest amongst the Sea Pink at Dunnet Head,on the Isle of Lewis in the Hebrides.Scotland. Lindsay.

Sea Pink grows all over the high cliffs on Dunnet Head,Isle of Lewis. Lindsay.

These beaches were beautiful and so clean.Isle of Lewis,Hebrides,Northern Scotland. Lindsay.

These sheep were well fleeced.No comments Robin!!Perhaps the fleece was used in the Harris Tweed.? Lindsay.

He was keeping an eye on me!He had a good set of horns which I wouldn’t have liked to have been on the other end of!! Lindsay.

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There are five new photographs on the Photo page starting…

There are five new photographs on the Photo page, starting from number eleven. I am sure that there must be some good photographers who have not yet sent any photographs in for the Photo page.

Photo is looking down from the top of Plodda falls. The falls are over 100 feet high, and one of the highest in Scotland, they are near Tomich, in Glen Affric. Jan.

Taken by my granddaughter last year on holiday in Devon and Cornwall. PM.

The late Freddie & Fiona these were my first two Ferrets. CH.

Three young cygnets taken at the Apex , Burnham on Sea. Marie.

Windmill in Norfolk we stopped at. FF (Rose)