Bored by the lockdown and weather, with new editing software and better understanding of how to use it, I've tried to sort damage done in the past to photos in my "Mammals" folder. I think much of it was due to the settings of my graphics card and monitor. Photos are from various cameras progressing through the years.
Some farm species included and a few species missing, I missed a Weasel at the Lurgies and doubt I'll get another chance soon.
Alpaca, were kept at Elliot where I started birding after work, looking for Dippers and Treecreepers
Bank Vole, often seen at our forest hide, along with wood mice
Rabbit, no doubt a released pet, this one and another were next to the Woolen Mill in Kinross
Grey Seal pup, Lurgies which looked recently born on the path. I left it be and informed the SSPCA who kept a watch on it. Good views in this and the following photo of the key ID aid, it's nose. Compare it with the Common Seal further down this post
Hatton Boar, it's a hard life when your only job is to eat, sleep and procreate! Mind you the sow in the next photo isn't much to look at, but then neither is he
Powmyre Pig, seen when looking for Iceland Gulls a few years ago
Bottlenose Dolphin, I think this was off Torry Battery in Aberdeen
Brown Hare, looks to be early spring, the usual time when the hares become active and distracted
East Haven Bull in one of the fields to the south of the village
Auchmithie Cat, this was a few years ago when I saw it sitting on the chimney on a few occasions
Grey Seal, quite far up the South Esk at the Lurgies in midwinter, the salmon is alive but diseased on head and tail
Common Seal pup, perhaps the best view I've had of one and it was just in front of the car park at Westhaven for a few days. My lazy grandkids thought it was "really cute" but not enough to get off their backsides on a cold day to see it
Dog off lead=death. It's not nature as I've heard said, if you choose to have a dog and effectively semi imprison it, at least don't let kill the wildlife which has a much harder time surviving
Bottlenose Dolphins, from Arbroath Cliffs where they are often sighted but it's something that can't be planned or guaranteed
Red Fox (Lurgies). Sometimes you just get lucky, or if you go out looking, without making a racket, move slowly with stealth, and most importantly nobody else comes along, you see things
Red Fox and cub, seen while I was doing a Corn Bunting Survey, they were only a few metres away when they saw me and bolted
Death by frisby, and not the first or last seal I've seen with plastic, netting or rope caught around it. This one was reported to the SSPCA but I doubt if they caught it unless it weakened. It was at the Ythan Estuary
Ythan Grey Seals, some days there can well over 1,000 animals hauled out warming up to help their digestion, and yet they don't always get peace despite barriers and signs
Grey Squirrel, Carnoustie (lactating). It's not their fault they spread disease and out compete the Reds, it ours namely the Victorians. Still we'll have to eradicate them if we want to keep the reds, even though the increase in Pine Martens is helping to control them, to a degree
Grey Squirrel, Kirkcaldy, found in Ravenscraig Park while I was looking for a Nuthatch
Hedgehog in my garden which lives in a wild pile of cuttings I built, to save going to the tip with them!
A horse of course, this one always comes to the edge of its field near SWT Montrose when I'm scouring the basin
House Mouse, doesn't end well. I have a number of videos where as many as four mice are climbing over each other to get at the seed
Minke Whale just south of Mains of Usan, it had been drifting up and down the coast for about a week before it washed ashore. Did you know it's illegal to remove whales or dolphins, or parts of from a beach. I didn't
Mountain Hare, I had to climb to near the top of Cairnwell to get this photo through deep snow, it was worth it
Mountain Hare near Loch Esk, Glen Clova. It must have quite late in spring as we were looking for Dotterel, there were none. I also remember falling through a snow bridge into a burn and finding and photographing a Common Lizard
House Mouse, they shared the hedgehogs wood pile and produced a few broods during lockdown. I bet that will be the same for humans
Otter, Forfar Loch, crunching a fish as it swam by the ducks sitting on the rafts of weed, they kept a wary eye on it
Otter, Lurgies. There was a mother with at least two cubs just 100 metres from the Old Harbour
Lurgies, three seen
Rabbit, Fowlsheugh, a very old photo of a tiddler sunning itself at the nest mouth
Red Deer Stag in velvet, Glenesk
Red Squirrel, this one was at our forest hide where they've now become mostly absent, most likely due to predators
Three and a half legged Roe Deer which I used to see at Murton NR where it appeared to raise at least two fawns. Deer there in the past have become tangled in the fences but now the gates around the reserveare left open
Roe Deer, looks like the old camera must have the "vivid" setting on
Roe Deer
Stoat, East Haven amusing itself by chasing Pied Wagtails who looked like they were having fun winding it up
Stoat, Elliot which was one of a family of four youngsters being watched by their mother. The small Sand Martin colony in a pile of top soil nearby failed that year
Elliot
Stoat, Lurgies. I wonder if ermine became popular in royal and ceremonial clothing after grouse shooting started in Victorian times, when gamekeepers started killing the stoats on a grand scale
Stoat, Lurgies
House Mouse stuck and dead in the feeder after eating too much, it may have been exposure as it had rained for about two days. It had eaten a huge amount of seed which had swelled up and wedged it under a bar in the feeder, I couldn't get it out and binned the feeder
