A close up of a Kumlien’s Gull’s eye, with speckled markings that aren’t quite what they appear, taken by Rebecca Nason in Lerwick Shetland, has been awarded Overall Winner in the British Ecological Society’s annual photography competition, ‘Capturing Ecology’.
“Mike has finished the stone work on the Broch of Gorseness………Now for the roof……..”
Rain…..Drops……
“This bull is not to be trifled with…..Good to see such solidity in such a shifting world…”
We rarely see the roots of plants, not the whole length of them anyway, because they’re doing their job for the plant mainly under the ground.
“September the Seventh………..Yesnaby”
“Phacelia in the Set-aside……Just….LOOK at it….The colour….The shapes…….And it’s all out there”
“Getting ready for next year’s poppies”
“The normal that we are being driven towards is a numbing of the horror of the scale of deaths.”
Why should we bother tackling the issue of invasive species?
