Another photo of the stunning European Bee-eater from a few weeks ago. Here you can see it is totally focused on its next meal. They are like giant colourful flycatchers in their behaviour. #birds #birdsseenin2026 #birdoftheday #birdphotography #birding

White-throated dipper quietly perched on a rock in the Dighty Burn. 📷📸🎞️🪶 #birds #ukwildlife

Collared dove. 📷📸🎞️🪶 #birds #ukwildlife #pigeonsky

Chiffchaff. 📷📸🎞️🪶 #birds #ukwildlife

A fresh tortoiseshell butterfly. 📷📸🎞️ #butterflies #ukwildlife

A very tattered small tortoiseshell butterfly. 📷📸🎞️ #butterflies #ukwildlife

A fresh peacock butterfly. 📷📸🎞️ #butterflies #ukwildlife

A tattered green-veined white butterfly. 📷📸🎞️ #butterflies #ukwildlife

Male orange-tip butterfly. 📷📸🎞️ #butterflies #ukwildlife

Some photos from my husband's Saturday walk to the Dighty Burn wooded river valley near our home in eastern Dundee, Scotland 📷📸🎞️🪶 #Cats #Dogs

White-throated dipper quietly perched on a rock in the Dighty Burn. 📷📸🎞️🪶 #birds #ukwildlife

Collared dove. 📷📸🎞️🪶 #birds #ukwildlife #pigeonsky

Chiffchaff. 📷📸🎞️🪶 #birds #ukwildlife

A fresh tortoiseshell butterfly. 📷📸🎞️ #butterflies #ukwildlife

A very tattered small tortoiseshell butterfly. 📷📸🎞️ #butterflies #ukwildlife

A fresh peacock butterfly. 📷📸🎞️ #butterflies #ukwildlife

A tattered green-veined white butterfly. 📷📸🎞️ #butterflies #ukwildlife

Male orange-tip butterfly. 📷📸🎞️ #butterflies #ukwildlife

A black cat hunting. 📷📸🎞️ #cats #notmycat

A four-lobed vinca minor flower; the other flowers had the normal five lobes. 📷📸🎞️ #flowers

27 species of bird seen, 7 more heard, plus 7 butterfly species seen on a 6 hour/8km walk (4.25 hours still) around north Monifieth and the Seven Arches (Balmossie) Viaduct area of the Dighty Burn on a hot Saturday with a nice cool breeze. First swifts of the year; only 1 dipper seen. #ukwildlife

Feral pigeon at Gannochy Duck pond in Perth. 📷📸🎞️🪶 #birds #ukwildlife #pigeonsky

Female mallard covered in pond weed at Gannochy Duck pond in Perth. One of the males swimming around the pond for long distances in a vertical head-down/bottoms-up pose. 📷📸🎞️🪶 #birds #ukwildlife

A young black-headed gull surging forward to catch an insect (or a mating pair of them) on Gannochy Duck pond in Perth. They appeared to be quite successful making lots lunges from the water as they swam about. 📷📸🎞️🪶 #birds #ukwildlife

One of three black-headed gulls (two adults, one younger) at Gannochy Duck pond in Perth. This young one had been successfully catching insects while swimming about. 📷📸🎞️🪶 #birds #ukwildlife

One of the two adult black-headed gulls at Gannochy Duck pond in Perth. One was seen taking off from the other side of the pond and flying a wide and high loop seemingly chased by a flock of about 20 feral pigeons. Happened several times in a row before they settled properly. 📷📸🎞️🪶 #birds #ukwildlife

Just seen my first ever tern! Unfortunately I was driving over Smeaton’s bridge in Perth at the time so I only got a brief glimpse before it dropped down out of sight over the side! Not enough to identify properly.

Female house sparrow. 📷📸🎞️🪶 #birds #ukwildlife

Speckled wood butterfly in Panmurefield woods. 📷📸🎞️ #butterflies #ukwildlife

Song thrush beside the Seven Arches (Balmossie) Viaduct in Broughty Ferry. 📷📸🎞️🪶 #birds #ukwildlife

Male white-throated dipper in the Dighty Burn near the Seven Arches (Balmossie) Viaduct in Monifieth. They are 6.5 years old (ringed 2020-Jan-22 as CL97968). 📷📸🎞️🪶 #birds #ukwildlife

Grey heron perched high in a tree above the Dighty Burn. They'd just been scratching the top of their head followed by their beak. 📷📸🎞️🪶 #birds #ukwildlife

Robin with beak full of insects in the Dighty Burn. 📷📸🎞️🪶 #birds #ukwildlife

Some bonus photos from my husband's Saturday walk to the Dighty Burn wooded river valley near our home in eastern Dundee, Scotland 📷📸🎞️🪶 #insects

Some photos from my husband's Saturday walk to the Dighty Burn wooded river valley near our home in eastern Dundee, Scotland 📷📸🎞️🪶 #insects

Female house sparrow. 📷📸🎞️🪶 #birds #ukwildlife

Speckled wood butterfly in Panmurefield woods. 📷📸🎞️ #butterflies #ukwildlife

Song thrush beside the Seven Arches (Balmossie) Viaduct in Broughty Ferry. 📷📸🎞️🪶 #birds #ukwildlife

Male white-throated dipper in the Dighty Burn near the Seven Arches (Balmossie) Viaduct in Monifieth. They are 6.5 years old (ringed 2020-Jan-22 as CL97968). 📷📸🎞️🪶 #birds #ukwildlife

Grey heron perched high in a tree above the Dighty Burn. They'd just been scratching the top of their head followed by their beak. 📷📸🎞️🪶 #birds #ukwildlife

Robin with beak full of insects in the Dighty Burn. 📷📸🎞️🪶 #birds #ukwildlife

Hoverfly (cheilosia illustrata). Easily mistaken for a bee. A nearby wasp was gnawing very loudly in a dead stem. 📷📸🎞️ #bugs #ukwildlife

Hoverfly (syrphus sp: ribesii or vitripennis). 📷📸🎞️ #bugs #ukwildlife

Green bottle fly. 📷📸🎞️ #bugs #ukwildlife

32 species of bird seen, 3 more heard, 3 butterfly species on a 6.5 hour/8.8km walk (4.75 hours still) around north Monifieth and the Seven Arches (Balmossie) Viaduct area of the Dighty Burn on a bright Saturday morning/afternoon with a chilly north wind. House martin year tick. #ukwildlife

'From Above' Sunrise this morning here in Glastonbury.

A Pilatus PC-12 NGX (registration LX-FLM) at 800'/80kts on final to Dundee (DND) airport. 📷📸🎞️ #planes #aviation

Crow (?) mobbing, and being mobbed by, a couple of lesser black-backed gulls. They had something triangular in their beak. I think crow but Merlin+Siri suggest raven for some images. Size similar to LBBG and a little acrobatic but wrong tail shape for raven? Thoughts? 📷📸🎞️🪶 #birds #ukwildlife

Young looking magpie at Seabraes Steps in Dundee. 📷📸🎞️🪶 #birds #ukwildlife

A Pilatus PC-12 NGX (registration LX-FLM) at 800'/80kts on final to Dundee (DND) airport. 📷📸🎞️ #planes #aviation