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Wednesday wildlife – the march to midsummer

Wednesday, June 2, 2021 (7:50 AM)

This week’s selection of photographs from site director Nick Card.

Twite.
A whaup among the dandelions - a curlew at the Ring of Brodgar.
Sedge-warbler.
Turnstones by the loch.
Turnstone portrait.
Swallow.
Oystercatcher portrait.
Male eider.
Group of ringed plovers.

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