Skye in August

1st
A young bullfinch appreciates the seediness of the neighbourhood.



3rd
Pink Mist over the Little Minch.


The last photons spatter on sleeping, unresponsive leaves as the Inner Hebrides spins eastwards into darkness, to face the gaping black abyss of the Universe.


4th
 
Siskin barely out of the egg, still half lost in his prelife dream world (Carduelis spinus).


Bird feeder bully (Fringilla coelebs).


Meadow pipit (Anthus pratensis)


Willow warbler (Phylloscopus trochilus)


8th
Mr. Vole has boarded the no-frills Buzz Airlines for the trip of a lifetime, not realizing there is only one item on the in-flight menu.


Newly fledged hen harrier (Circus cyaneus) arrives on the scene.



Colin meets Brian





High fiving











The old man joins in.













10th






Buzzard on garden fence.








19th

The Appenines snake down to Copernicus crater, forming the eastern boundary of the Sea of Rains.


21st

Same fence, different buzzard.