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1 Common crossbill
This Common crossbill was drinking water from a hole worn in a large stone that had once formed part of the wall of a ruined cottage. Crossbills are very confiding birds but unless they come to ground to drink it is unusual to get so close to these treetop cone-feeding specialists.
Mark Hope, Glengarnock, Ayrshire 2 Scale and texture
In September last year I had one of those photographic experiences where the light and subject matter came nicely together. In the morning I climbed the Old Man with a local guide. There is no better way to feel the scale and texture of Scotland’s amazing landscape than to be crawling up a splinter of rock in the Atlantic Ocean. The photo captures just how vast and blue both the sky and ocean were on that Sunday morning.
Mark Kitson, Tring, Hertfordshire 3 Weasel
I took this picture at Eskrigg Nature Reserve near Lockerbie. I was in the reserve hide trying to capture some images of a sparrowhawk and a treecreeper that were around the area that morning. I was rewarded not by a great image of the birds but by a foraging weasel that appeared purely by chance on the scene. The weasel was hunting through some old tree roots where there is a known presence of some bank voles and I was lucky enough to attract its attention with a series of squeaks.
George Trudt, Lockerbie 4 Branching out
I love to get out and about with my digitial camera. I took this atmospheric shot of a tree last year in Vogrie Country Park. I had to turn around and look up to the tree and through the branches, but it was amazing, the light was just right.
Yvonne Rollert, Newtongrange
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