Jenwhyte
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A wonderful golden glow over Loch Garry as the Sun goes down behind the distant hills.
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Beinn na Caillich blanketed in autumn bracken and grasses.
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Am not sure which one I like best … you’ll have to choose!
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Taken from the top of the hill above Plockton with the Autumn colours just beginning to show.
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The Black Mount with the most incredible pool of light coming from the sky!
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A bird’s eye view of Loch Carron from the top of the hill.
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Looking North over Loch Carron, Plockton is a popular highland village where the TV series Hamish Macbeth was filmed. A very busy tourist destination in the height of the season but wonderful in Autumn and Winter when it is empty! / I’m not sure if that might not be an Eagleabove the hill … only spotted it when I uploaded to the computer.
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The summit of Bla Bheinn (Blaven) one of the Black Cuillin on the Isle of Skye
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In summer the Glen is very lush and green and has great romantic appeal.
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The Pass of the Cattle – the road over the hills to Applecross.
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Stow of Wedale, or simply Stow, is a Scottish village seven miles north of Galashiels. Population 620 (2004). The name “Stow” is thought to be derived from an Anglic word meaning either “holy place” or “fort” whilst “Wedale” is thought to be derived from the words “Wiche” meaning shrine and “Dahl” meaning valley. Another explanation is that “Wedale” means “Dale of Woe” commemorating, according to local folklore, a battle fought there by King Arthur. Wedale itself is an old name for the vale of the Gala Water, first attested in the 12th century. / There has been a church at Stow since the 7th century but the earliest example still visible today was built in the late 15th century on the site of the Church of St Mary which was consecrated on 3 November 1242. The church used today, St Mary of Wedale, was built in 1876 and features a 140 foot high clock tower. Our Lady’s Well is situated a mile south of the village and was rebuilt in 2000. A rare example of a packhorse bridge, built in the 1650s, can be found in Stow. Stow was an important place in the woollen and agricultural industries in the 19th century.
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This is the door to the south transept of Lanercost Priory … I liked the mood of the shot when done in b&w. Lanercost Priory was founded about 1166 by Henry II. When completed in 1220, canons came from the priory in Norfolk, and remained for some 370 years until the Dissolution of the Monasteries in 1536, by Henry VIII. / The building went to Thomas Dacre of Naworth Castle nearby, who converted some of the buildings into private dwellings (now called the Dacre Hall). The rest of the building fell into disrepair. About 1740 it was decided to restore the nave, and use it as a Parish Church. Anthony Salvin, who had done some restoration and building work at Naworth Castle in 1844, was responsible for the Parish Church as it is now. / The East window contains some fragments of 16th Century glass removed from the Dacre Hall, the dining room of Sir Thomas Dacre after the dissolution. In the North transept is a monument to Lady Elizabeth Dacre Howard also by Sir J Boehm. /
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This is one of the birds of prey display at Dunrobin Castle … a Blue Winged Eagle from South America. / Just getting ready to take off!
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With the light behind him and in a good mood – which means he’s not trying to bully you or eat you alive I just thought Fergus showed a bit of his spiritual side … I just liked the way this shot turned out!
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When Poppy was a kitten she loved getting her photo taken and would pose whenever she saw a camera … now she says ’’get that bleep bleep thing outa my face’‘ / She’s still my baby though and the cuddliest Cat I’ve ever had although you wouldn’t think so looking at that face! / I am very tired this morning after a broken night’s sleep with her waking me up almost once an hour to ’’get dried’’ after she’d been out in the rain getting soaked – which, incidentally, she loves – getting soaked I mean! It’s a mind-blowing experience getting jumped on in the middle of the night by a soggy moggie!
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Evening light falls over two little boats abandoned on a lochan on the moor above Portree on Skye.
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Taken from the beach at Applecross showing the last house in the village and the view across the Sound to Skye and Raasay
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The Peregrine Falcon (Falco peregrinus), also known simply as the Peregrine,and historically as the “Duck Hawk” in North America, is a cosmopolitan bird of prey in the family Falconidae. It is a large, crow-sized falcon, with a blue-gray back, barred white underparts, and a black head and “moustache”. As with other bird-eating raptors, the female is bigger than the male. Authorities recognize 17–19 subspecies, which vary in appearance and range; there is disagreement over whether the distinctive Barbary Falcon is a subspecies or a distinct species. The Peregrine’s breeding range includes land regions from the Arctic tundra to the Tropics. It can be found nearly everywhere on Earth, excepting extreme polar regions, very high mountains, and most tropical rainforests; the only major ice-free landmass from which it is entirely absent is New Zealand. This makes it the world’s most widespread bird of prey. Both the English and scientific names of this species mean “wandering falcon”, referring to the migratory habits of many northern populations. While its diet consists almost exclusively of medium-sized birds, the Peregrine will occasionally hunt small mammals, small reptiles or even insects. It reaches sexual maturity at one year, and mates for life. It nests in a scrape, normally on cliff edges or, in recent times on tall man-made structures. The Peregrine Falcon became an endangered species due to the use of pesticides, especially DDT. Since the ban on DDT from the beginning of the 1970s onwards, the populations recovered, supported by large scale protection of nesting places and releases to the wild.
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