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Martin Dunstan
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Birder, amateur photographer, astronomer, FPGA developer, OpenGL programmer, Linux user, lapsed church bellringer. Dundee, Scotland.
Flickr: https://www.flickr.com/photos/mndunstan
Dippers: https://martinsmainlydippers.com
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A robin on the grass beside Seabraes Steps in Dundee. 📷📸🎞️🪶 #birds #ukwildlife
A close-up image of a brown, orange and grey/white bird perched proudly in low-cut mossy grass. Their head and back are dark brown while their chin and breast are bright orange. Their sides and underbelly are white and fluffy grey/brown. They have a jet black eye and small grey beak. Their legs are pink.
November 20, 2025 at 9:25 PM
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A rabbit busy grazing the office lawn first thing this morning. They were there for long into the afternoon visiting every bit of it. 📷📸🎞️ #rabbits #animals #ukwildlife
A close-up image of a brown rabbit crouched on a mossy green lawn with their ears backlit by the morning winter sun. They are mostly different shades of brown shot through with white/grey hairs and a bright white tail. Their eye is jet black.
November 20, 2025 at 9:25 PM
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Tay Road Bridge seen from Riverside Walk in Dundee lit by the low winter sun. 📷📸🎞️ #Tay #bridges #rivers
A distant view of a flat, cream-coloured bridge perched on pairs of concrete pillars rising as it spans over a wide blue river with dark skies in the background. Some cars can be seen crossing the bridge.
November 20, 2025 at 9:25 PM
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Newport-on-Tay seen from Riverside Walk in Dundee lit by the low winter sun. 📷📸🎞️ #Tay
A telephoto shot of a group of houses on the lower slopes of a small hill in front of a wide river. Most of the houses are dark stone with bright white crenellated edges on their corners and around the windows. Above the houses are green fields with hedges and trees. Some of the fields have white sheep or cows grazing in them.
November 20, 2025 at 9:24 PM
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Video didn’t upload to Bluesky but the YouTube link expanded okay. Trying again from ipad …
November 16, 2025 at 1:04 AM
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A ghostly collared dove attempting a tricky landing. 📷📸🎞️🪶 #birds #ukwildlife
A pale white, black and brown dove with wings spread and tail fanned out among lots of small branches with the trunk of a small tree in the background. Their head and body is salmon-brown with a white edged black collar on the back of their neck. Their beak is grey and their eye is jet black with a white ring around the edge. The underside of their wings is bright white changing to dark grey at the tips. Their tail feathers are white at the ends and jet black near the base.
November 16, 2025 at 12:51 AM
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Collared dove. 📷📸🎞️🪶 #birds #ukwildlife
A brown and grey dove perched on a branch with foreground twigs and larger branches in the background and an out-of-focus white sky beyond. They have a jet black eye with white ring and a small grey beak with slightly hooked tip. Their head and wings are a light orangy-brown colour with a distinctive black collar on the back of their neck. Their back fades from brown to grey near their wings.
November 16, 2025 at 12:50 AM
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Female chaffinch. 📷📸🎞️🪶 #birds #ukwildlife
A small brown bird perched on a branch among larger branches. Their head, chin and breast are fluffy brown with occasional patches of white. Their wings are dark brown and back with white flashes.
November 16, 2025 at 12:50 AM
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Female house sparrow. 📷📸🎞️🪶 #birds #ukwildlife
A close-up image of a brown bird perched on a spiky bramble stem. They have a powerful conical finch-like beak with jet black eyes. Their breast is fluffy grey with a fluffy white underbelly. The wings on their back are orangy-brown with dark centres.
November 16, 2025 at 12:49 AM
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Male house sparrow. 📷📸🎞️🪶 #birds #ukwildlife
A close-up image of a brown and grey bird perched upright on a thin vertical stem set against an out of focus uniform grey-green background. They have a powerful conical finch-like beak.
November 16, 2025 at 12:49 AM
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Ring-necked parakeet in Panmurefield Woods, Broughty Ferry. Heard raucous screeching near a grey squirrel. Finally found them after a careful check with bins: they didn't make a sound after the squirrel departed which made them hard to find in spite of their bright colour! 📷📸🎞️🪶 #birds #ukwildlife
A bright yellow-green bird with red beak and orange-rimmed eyes perched in among branches of a tree set against an out-of-focus pale blue sky.
November 16, 2025 at 12:48 AM
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Grey heron lit by the setting sun while perched in a favourite tree above the Dighty Burn at Panmurefield in Dundee. 📷📸🎞️🪶 #birds #ukwildlife
The head and body of a large grey, black and white bird with pointed orange beak seen in profile facing left. The light of the setting sun gives their white feathers a warm yellowish glow.
November 16, 2025 at 12:46 AM
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Two of 7 dippers (likely 6 individuals) seen on my walk around the Seven Arches (Balmossie) Viaduct area of the Dighty Burn in Monifieth/Broughty Ferry on a chilly grey-then-bright Saturday afternoon. They were serenading, displaying and flying together. 📷📸🎞️🪶 #birds #ukwildlife
Two white-throated dipper birds perched beside each other on a fallen branch above shallow water with autumn leaves in the background. The bird on the left has their wings spread and is looking directly at the camera; the bird on the right is standing tall with slightly open beak pointing skywards and their tail fanned out. They both have a brown head with brown eye and small black pupil. Their chin and breast are bright white with a chestnut brown waistcoat below. Their wings are dark brown with silvery legs. The bird on the right has a single metal ring on their right leg although it isn't visible in this image.
November 16, 2025 at 12:40 AM
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Two of 7 dippers (likely 6 individuals) seen on my walk around the Seven Arches (Balmossie) Viaduct area of the Dighty Burn in Monifieth/Broughty Ferry on a chilly grey-then-bright Saturday afternoon. They were serenading, displaying and flying together. 📷📸🎞️🪶 #birds #ukwildlife
Two white-throated dipper birds seen in profile perched facing each other on a fallen branch above shallow water with autumn leaves in the background. They have a brown head with brown eye and small black pupil. Their chin and breast are bright white with a chestnut brown waistcoat below. Their wings are dark brown with silvery legs. The bird on the right has a single metal ring on their right leg and is pointing their beak upwards with their tail slightly fanned out.
November 16, 2025 at 12:39 AM
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Ring-nosed parakeet in Panmurefield Woods, Broughty Ferry, Dundee? #birds
Yellow-green bird with red beak in a tree.
November 15, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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Green parrot/macaw/parakeet seen in Panmurefield woods!
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November 15, 2025 at 1:53 PM
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A lone goldcrest flitting about a tree almost never still. 📷📸🎞️🪶 #birds #ukwildlife
A small brown bird with a slightly grumpy expression perched on a branch among several green leaves. They have large black eyes with white spectacle rings and with a dark moustache looking like a mouth. Their wings are black with thin gold stripes. The edge of their distinctive gold crest is just visible on the top of their head.
November 9, 2025 at 12:41 AM
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A female siskin feeding on seed cones near the Seven Arches (Balmossie) Viaduct of the Dighty Burn in Monifieth. My first proper sighting of these birds. 📷📸🎞️🪶 #birds #ukwildlife
An image of a faintly stripey brown, yellow and white bird perched on a seed cone at the end of a thin dropping branch. They have a yellow eye stripe.
November 9, 2025 at 12:40 AM
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Female and male siskins feeding on seed cones near the Seven Arches (Balmossie) Viaduct of the Dighty Burn in Monifieth. My first proper sighting of these birds. 📷📸🎞️🪶 #birds #ukwildlife
An image of branches and seed cones with two speckled grey and yellow siskin birds feeding on them. The female on the left has a grey back and head with dark speckles throughout; their breast is white with black stripes and spots. The male on the right is mostly yellow in colour with a dark cap, yellow and black wing stripes, and a white belly with back spots. The male is hanging upside-down.
November 9, 2025 at 12:39 AM
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One of 7 dippers (likely 7 individuals) seen on my walk around the Seven Arches (Balmossie) Viaduct area of the Dighty Burn in Monifieth/Broughty Ferry on a very grey and slightly rainy Saturday afternoon. 📷📸🎞️🪶 #birds #ukwildlife
A white-throated dipper bird seen in profile perched facing left in shallow water. They have a brown head with brown eye and small black pupil. Their chin and breast are bright white with a chestnut brown waistcoat below. Their wings are dark brown.
November 9, 2025 at 12:38 AM
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Female house sparrow. 📷📸🎞️🪶 #birds #ukwildlife
A close-up image of a creamy/brown bird with a strong pointed beak perched on a dead branch with out of focus branches, a few leaves and a white sky in the background. They have a black eye.
November 9, 2025 at 12:37 AM
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A cute dog sniffing the leaves by the Dighty Burn near the Seven Arches (Balmossie) Viaduct in Monifieth. 📷📸🎞️ #dogs
A close-up image of a small, white, short-haired dog with a curly tail sniffing at wet autumn leaves. They have a light brown patch behind their shoulder and at the base of their tail; their ears are fluffy brown.
November 9, 2025 at 12:36 AM
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A ruffled dipper after preening. One of 6 dippers (likely 5 individuals) seen on my walk around the Seven Arches (Balmossie) Viaduct area of the Dighty Burn in Monifieth/Broughty Ferry on a grey then bright, cold and windy Saturday afternoon. 📷📸🎞️🪶 #birds #ukwildlife
A white-throated dipper bird seen in profile perched on a brown log over a shallow dark river water. They have a brown head with brown eye and small black pupil. Their chin and breast are bright white with a chestnut brown waistcoat below. Their white breast has a small dark patch in the middle where they were preening. Their wings are dark brown and ruffled looking. They have no rings on their legs.
November 2, 2025 at 1:22 AM
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A common buzzard. They were mobbed by crows then stopped and hovered like a kestrel for a while over a field. After dropping out of sight they reappeared here chased by an out-of-shot crow (crop from previous post). 📷📸🎞️🪶 #birds #ukwildlife
A close-up image of a mottled brown and white hawk with large wings spread wide as it flies towards the right of frame set against a pale blue-white sky. They have yellow feet and a hooked yellow beak. Five individual feathers can be seen on the tips of each wing.
November 2, 2025 at 1:21 AM
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A common buzzard mobbed by a crow. 📷📸🎞️🪶 #birds #ukwildlife
A shot of a black bird with diamond tail and wings spread wide on the left of the frame seen flying towards a mottled brown and white hawk with large wings spread wide at the right of frame. The flight feathers on both birds are spread wide.
November 2, 2025 at 1:20 AM