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Three Dragonflies - Sunny afternoon at Ardinning. These 3 within a metre of each other. I guess the first two could be common darters. ...

In The Pink - In the Pink. Common Carder Bee (I think) on Mexican aster. ...

Roe Deer, seen between two vertical branches

Silent Sunday – Roe Deer - #SilentSunday ...

Lots of books untidily arranged on bookshelves

Microblog September photo challenge Day 2: buildup - #mbsept Microblog September photo challenge Day 2: buildup (Chris/@V_) ...

Looking through a circular hole in a Barbara Hepworth sculpture and a picture by the same artist.

Microblog September photo challenge 1 -Abstract - #mbsept Microblog September photo challenge 1 - Abstract. Barbara Hepworth through Barbara Hepworth. ...

Grid of images 3x3 from topleft: young goldfinch on thistle seed heads; rosebay willowherb in seed; Loch Humphrey Burn small waterfall; Loch Humphrey burn; map with locations of where photos were taken; raven in sky;Common darter on path; Peacock butterfly on knapweed; marsh woundwort

Walk to Greenside Reservoir - Walk to Greenside reservoir this afternoon. Quite a few midge bites. Lots of seeds floating around. Goldfinches on the thistles, a sparrow hawk passed, lots of dragonflies on the path. Quite a few butterflies, mostly peacocks, odd green veined white… ...

Rosebay willow herb in seed fills the image

Silent Sunday - #SilentSunday ...

Grid of 3x3 images, 8 photos around a map showing where they were taken. from top left: Thistle down; peacock butterfly; red admiral butterfly; stonechat on gorse against a blue sky; map; honey bee on hawkweed; view, sky with cumulus clouds, trees, and grass; mature line of trees; tansy flower

Walk to Greenside Reservoir - We had a nice walk up to Greenside Reservoir this afternoon. Blue skies & clouds with a fair breeze. Lots of sees, thistles & rosebay all the way. lots of angelica & meadowsweet too. Plenty of butterflies, green veined whites,… ...

Silent Sunday - #SilentSunday ...

A Vapourer Moth Caterpillar crawling on an old birthday ballon

Punk Caterpillar - ...

Linlithgow Palace Fountain Detail, a face of either a lion with human ears of a sun?

Linlithgow Palace Fountain Detail - Linlithgow Palace Fountain Detail, I am not sure if this is a lion or sun man face? More snaps on flickr. ...

A peacock butterfly with its wings fully open , feeding or resting on a thistle head.

Peacocks - I am beginning to see more peacock butterflies again, this one and more at Old Kilpatrick yesterday. ...

A group of 6 Red Deer, 4 stags in velvet and 2 hinds. 5 out of the 6 are looking at the camera.

- Between Beinn Bhrec & Ben Reoch Deer grazing, 50 yds ahead, I stop for a couple of snaps, they move off slowly, pausing. In front of me a fawn approaches to 20 yards, then stops & stares. I watch a… ...

Flora on Kilpatrick muir At the back, common ling & bell heather. Some blaeberry leaves poking through. At the front, yellow bedstraw, harebells, yarrow, willow herb. Grasses with seedheads, Yorkshire fog and others.

Muir flora - Flora on Kilpatrick muir, At the back, common ling & bell heather. Some blaeberry leaves poking through. At the front, yellow bedstraw, harebells, yarrow, willow herb. Grasses with seed heads, Yorkshire fog and others. ...

A flock of mixed corvids, jackdaws, crows & rooks fly by. The sky is blue with cumulous clouds

Silent Sunday - #silentsunday ...

Grid of pictures, the center one a map of where the othere were taken. From Top Left: Tortoise Shell butterfly; Meadow Brown Butterfly; flock of mixed corvids against a blue sky & cumulous clouds; Angelica Flower; map; Grey Mare's Tail waterfall; Meadowsweet flower; Red Admiral Butterfly; Bee on thistle.

Cochno today - Cochno Estate walk, More on Flickr #nature ...

Six-spot burnet - 2 Six-spot burnet moths mating on a harebell. ...

A montage of 13 ravens flying, black and white

ImageMagick B&W Ravens - Playing around, ChatGPT got me to black and white. I use ImageMagick occasionally, for tasks I repeat a lot (mapgrids for example) I'll not learn much of it. ChatGPT may speed up my simple needs. convert ravens.jpg -threshold 30% -fill… ...