Scottish Beasties

Curlew Versus Crab Walking along the coastal path at Musselburgh when I spotted a Curlew splashing about in the mouth of the River Esk at low Tide. It was a fair distance away and I […]

Seals in the River Forth taking it easy. These seals are almost always visible, at Morrison’s Haven just outside of Edinburgh.  To see them, head out of Musselburgh, past the racecourse, and take the coast […]

Red Deer Got pretty close to these red deer hinds before I was spotted. Managed to get a couple of pictures, then they were gone.

Magpie A magpie cooling his toes in the last of the winter snow.

Teal duck

Lift Off A swan doing its best to take off on the River Esk. Eventually it ran out of runway and gave up!

Red Throated Diver A Red Throated Diver, Loch Fada, South Uist

Dolphins Travelling from the mainland to the Outer Hebrides, you will often see dolphins swimming alongside the ferry. Trying to get a photograph of them is really difficult as they tend to appear and disappear […]

Highland Cow The classic Highland cow – or as we say in Scotland, a hielan coo

Kingfisher This Kingfisher was feeding on shrimps at the mouth of the Esk near musselburgh.

These pictures of wading birds and ducks were taken at a pond near the shores of the Forth, just outside Edinburgh. Normally the wading birds like the Godwits, Oyster Catchers and Redshanks would have been […]

Scotland has some exotic wee beasties like this  Elephant Hawkmoth Caterpillar – although it wasn’t so wee. It was about three inches long and as thick as my little finger! I spotted this one at […]

Anyone who has visited the Isle of South Uist and driven along the shores of Loch Druidibeg, will have come across the Shetland pony herd. They live along the shoreline of the loch, and appear […]