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My first Aurora of the season and it’s now dark enough for a glimpse of the Milky Way. Last night over the North East of Scotland #Aurora #Aberdeenshire #Scotland
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A stunning display of Noctilucent clouds last night, at around midnight, here in the North East of Scotland #Scotland #Noctilucent
Two years ago tonight I was fortunate to witness one of the best displays of the Aurora Borealis that I have ever seen. A remarkable sky lit up to the naked eye and made more unique as it was covering most of the southern sky. The first shot is a stitch of around eighteen individual shots in order to fit the whole display into one frame #Aurora #NorthernLights #Aberdeenshire #Scotland
The Aurora from last night here in the North East of Scotland. Strong activity between 21:30 and 22:30 with the colours visible to the eye. A lot more reds and purples than I’ve seen for a while too #Aurora #Aberdeenshire #Scotland
Lochnagar and over to The Stuic yesterday. Still lots of snow in the corries. The ptarmigan are now pairing up and getting their spring coats whilst this mountain hare is still in its winter jacket #Lochnagar #CairngormsNP #Scotland
As the snow thins out on the higher slopes the Mountain Hares can get back up and have a bite to eat. Their summer coats are starting to appear just in time too. Yesterday near the summit of Creag Leacach #Cairngorms #Scotland
Some more from yesterday on Lochnagar in the Cairngorms National Park. Good numbers of ptarmigan to be seen (and heard!) with the snow now largely limited to the coires #Scotland #Cairngorms
There’s something about a Crescent Moon 🌙 - The moon at 22% illumination from last night in the North East of Scotland #Aberdeenshire #Scotland #Lunar
An overnighter on Wednesday at Loch Callater. Whistling sandpipers and waterfalls full of snow melt the only sounds on a calm clear night #CairngormsNP #Scotland
The rape seed is in full bloom here in the north east of Scotland at the moment. Here’s the International Space Station, and a few other satellites, flying over late last night #ISS #Scotland #Aberdeenshire
Fresh snowfall over the weekend adding depth and cover to the previous falls. On Glas Maol and Creag Leacach today in the Cairngorms National Park #Cairngorms #Scotland
Lochnagar today. Swirling clouds, stags growing new antlers, ptarmigan aplenty and coires full of snow #Lochnagar #CairngormsNP #Scotland
Please don’t let the USA have anything to do with football ever again…….
Something a bit different. This was shot last Wednesday morning just after sunrise from the summit of Càrn na Drochaide in The Cairngorms National Park. It’s taken with a phone so as I pan you can see the familiar “sunspot” on the lens. The high pitched peep that you can hear is the call of a Golden Plover, who kept me company for most of the time I was pitched up…… #CairngormsNP #Scotland
A few from yesterday on Càrn na Drochaide in the Cairngorms NP #CairngormsNP #Scotland
Some more from Friday from the Linn of Quoich and heading up to the hills. The Punchbowl, Braemar Castle, Red Deer and frog spawn - at 600m #CairngormsNP #Scotland
A temperature inversion over the north east of Scotland this morning. Hovering around 0C in the glens with blue skies above the clouds #Aberdeenshire #Scotland #Inversion #BrockenSpectre #DJI
I went out to try and get a look at the PANNSTARS comet this morning a couple of hours before the sun rose. Unfortunately a low bank of cloud blocked the view. Fortunately, there was a bit of Aurora activity #Aberdeenshire #Scotland #Aurora
There’s every chance that the red squirrels will have young in the dray by now. Here’s a young female visiting today #Aberdeenshire #Scotland
The 5th of July is traditionally Tynwald Day on the Isle of Man. However, when this occurs on a weekend it moves to the Monday, today. Tynwald Day is the national day of the Isle of Man, with events occuring to mark the anniversary of the longest continuous legislature in the world - since 979. Here are some of my favourite places on the Island. The first image was taken at Cronk Keeill Abban, a former Viking assembly site 🇮🇲 #IsleOfMan #TynwaldDay #EllanVannin
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@kumarvibe @_thegeoff The drone gives it the full 360 too. Here’s one from a few years ago with a fogbow for an added extra 😉🙏
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@patrickhadfield@mastodon.scot Thank you! I always have a quick look over the shoulder when I’m out looking for the Aurora now 😀🙏👍
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@ravenbait@mastodon.scot @scozmos@mastodon.scot These were taken in the Lower Donside / Alford area 👍
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@kumarvibe Thank you. This was initiated by the drone so I only saw it myself via the screen 😀👍🏼
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@cwicseolfor I’m not entirely sure to be honest but I think it varies with each individual. Further down the hill I did spot others that were darker. I seem to remember reading somewhere it was to do with temperature as to the change in colour but I’m not 100% on that.
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@Clutha The centre closed here a few weeks ago. Cairngorm is still open as is Glencoe 👍🏼❄️
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@corvus@mapstodon.space Where do I start….. I think the half an hour “half time show” which, according to the rules half time should only be 15 minutes or agreed to be longer by the referee, was the final nail in the coffin for me. I won’t be watching the cup “presentation”.