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Wednesday wildlife – ones and twos

Wednesday, October 27, 2021 (7:30 AM)

This week’s photographs from Ness of Brodgar excavation director Nick Card.

Knot on the Loch of Stenness shore.
Pair of goldfinches in flight.
Redshank and dunlin.
Redshank slips on the seaweed in the Stenness loch.
Robin.
Wheatear.

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