A lovely Red Squirrel...

Red Squirrel - Highland, Scotland. • Nikon D800, 70-400mm zoom lens.

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The Winter season is starting with the Mountain Hares

Last week I took a trip out with a friend to go out looking for Mountains Hares and to photograph them. It didn't take us long to find a few, and with walking around searching we started seeing a lot more. Some are still brown in colour, but a lot are starting to change into there winter coats and we even saw two full white hares.

It's always a fun experience every time I see these guys and watching them for hours with there movements and rather quirky faces is always amusing to watch and to get photo's.

Apart from mountain hares, there were sightings of Red Deer, Ravens, Golden and White-tailed Eagles and Buzzard. There were a pair of eagles doing there courtship flight which I was watching whilst lying on the ground photographing the hares. Out of all the four birds hearing there call and even the ravens mobbing the eagles was a great sight.

Below are a few shots from the day, I did take more but I have yet to go through them all!

In the Summer and nearly all this year I haven't blogged as much as I usually do, due to moving, work and other commitments. Here are some shots of Mountain Hares taken in the Summer.

and on one of the days this was taken - Meadow Pipit, lots were hanging around.

If you are interested in photographing Mountain Hares (based around the Cairngorm, Highland area) I offer full day guiding services to have the opportunity to photograph the hares and possibly a few other species, depending on the day.

For further information or any enquiries please email: hello@everussellphotography.com

Below, a few images taken in the snow from this year in February.

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Eve :)

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Skulls, feathers and Poo...

These were found and brought back with me from a trip out with a friend one Sunday a few weeks ago. A selection of feathers/wings and skulls, along with Owl pellets.

Most seem easy to identify but on a couple I'm not 100% sure!

Images...

1. Roe Deer?

This image below might of been the other remains from the skull, but I don't know.

2. Heron wing and ... possibly from a Gull?

3. Owl pellets - not much exciting in them this time!

4. Rabbit skull

5. This next one I'm not so sure about,

unless it's from a Gull...

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Eve :)

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Blackbirds nest found today in the garden

I found a Blackbirds nest hidden under a cover, covering a load of logs this morning. Warmth was coming from the eggs... But isn't it a bit late in the year now? (Location: outskirts of Inverness, Highland, Scotland). 

Thanks for looking and any opinions welcome!

Eve :) 

6am start and some nice wildlife sightings

Headed out at 6am this morning for a walk, saw quite a few Roe Deer along the way and then I went to the hide for a bit afterwards.

One of the regular Red Squirrels appeared at the hide nicely for over an hour. There was some good sightings off female Great Spotted Woodpecker on the feeders near the hide, 2 Crested Tit visits, male Greenfinch and other small woodland birds.

Usually, I hear two Cuckoos and saw one quite close to the hide a few weeks ago, but this morning I could hear 3 of them in the area. 

A Buzzard appeared which I had good viewings of for around 10mins, which eventually was getting mobbed by a Crow so the bird disappeared over the other side of the forest.

Again, I had my camera on me as per usual and got a few shots from this morning.  First one being of the Robin that visits the hide very regularly. 

A female Chaffinch flew down to the pool for a drink, obviously I couldn't resist getting a quick shot…

Male Chaffinch too…

And lastly when driving back. So many vibrant fields at the moment...

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Butterflies galore!

I had a rather pleasant surprise this morning, I found this group in my garage of butterflies, of Small Tortoiseshell and Peacock. Unfortunately two hadn't made it over the winter but the rest flew happily away. 

Images only taken from the iPhone.

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Eve :)

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A great day photographing Red Squirrels at Neil McIntyre's site

Yes... more squirrels! :)

Me and a friend Wendy, spent the morning photographing Red Squirrels at Neil's site in Aviemore, and not long after we arrived the first squirrel appeared. 

The squirrel posed lovely in quite a few different spots for us and stayed for a while giving us a good amount of time to photograph. She was exceedingly cute and a rather cheeky character and sure demands her food lol.

It was quite hard choosing with taking so many images on the day, but here are some of the images...

It was a great morning out, enjoyed by both me and Wendy (she has posted some of her photo's on Twitter, you can find her at - @benjiandblossom) and thanks again to Neil :)

(Neil also offers other workshops and tours - www.neilmcintyre.com)

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After Neil's, we headed off up to the Cairngorm Mountain so see what wildlife was around. I was hoping for some Snow Buntings as every time I go they never seem to be around, but we were lucky and saw a group of about 10-15 of them. We were attempting to photograph them but they would not stay still, so unfortunately only a record shot. 

We headed to the Rothiemurchus Visitor Centre for some lunch after this then to a few more wildlife spots. - Overall a great day out!

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Eve :)

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A great day up the Mountain for Mountain Hares & a bit of unexpected news!

With the weather not looking too bad I decided to head up the mountain looking for Mountain Hares. I was hoping for a bit of snow to be there and luckily enough there was snow! 

It didn't take me too long to spot a few hares about, some were moving away and luckily enough the guy below was quite comfy with my presence and posed rather nicely for about an hour.

The sun kept popping in and out with a slight bit of snow falling that added a nice bit of atmosphere to the image below.

There's something about the Mountain Hare and it's amazing how they survive such different weather conditions and also how they change in colour to camouflage well in the different seasons.

I'll be back photographing these guys in a few weeks and it will be interesting to see any changes in them and there environment.

Thanks for looking!

Eve :)

PS: Had some rather unexpected news on Friday from Outdoor Photography magazine and found out that I won there 'Winter Wildlife' photography competition. It certainly did put a smile on my face and was a nice start to the weekend! The image that won was the top image in this blog post, which was a favourite of mine from the day.

Camera and equipment used on the day: Nikon D800, taken with a 70-300mm zoom lens and a bean bag used.

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