Thinking pods, contemplation areas for Members of the Scottish Parliament.
Category: Europe

A Blue Tit, Cyanistes caeruleus, perched on a twig with hawthorn berries.

A beautiful male Eurasian Bullfinch in winter, perched on a Fuchsia shrub in my front garden.

A few Common Guillemots / Murres from the Breeding colony on the Farne Islands off Northumbria.

A flock of Dunlin, Calidris alpina, flying above the sea on a winter day with low light.

The famous Ha’penny Bridge (1816) over the River Liffey in central Dublin, Ireland

A moody treatment of a Jackdaw, Corvus monedula, perched on a branch.

Two European Honey Buzzards showing very different plumages, on migration over the Strait of Gibraltar.

A group of White Storks flying through a Wind Farm whose turbines have been stopped.

A male Eurasian Sparrowhawk, soaring above the Sierra de la Plata, Andalucía, southern Spain.

A European Goldfinch callilng from a snow-covered branch.

A Painted Lady Butterfly, basking in the sun on the seedhead of a Drumstick Allium.