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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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Waxing gibbous Moon. Darkened to improve the detail in the brighter highlands. 📷📸🎞️ #moon #astronomy
An image of a slightly more than half-lit Moon set against a dark blue sky. Several craters are visible along the terminator. Large dark regions are the low-lying maria. The southern polar area appears more densely cratered than the middle.
November 30, 2025 at 1:19 AM
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White throated dipper with colour rings (red over white, blue over metal). Third of four individuals seen on my walk around the Dighty Burn in Monifieth/Broughy Ferry near the Seven Arches (Balmossie Viaduct). At least 6 years old; I've observed them for the last 4 years. 📷📸🎞️🪶 #birds #ukwildlife
A close-up image of a brown and white bird perched on a branch facing the camera. They have a chestnut brown head with brown eye and small black pupil. Their chin and breast are bright white with a chestnut brown waistcoat below. They have been colour ringed: red over-white on the left, blue over metal on the right. Ringed as CL97968 on 2020-Jan-22, born the year before.
November 30, 2025 at 1:19 AM
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White throated dipper with colour rings (red over white, blue over metal). Third of four individuals seen on my walk around the Dighty Burn in Monifieth/Broughy Ferry near the Seven Arches (Balmossie Viaduct). At least 6 years old; I've observed them for the last 4 years. 📷📸🎞️🪶 #birds #ukwildlife
A close-up image of a brown and white bird perched on a branch facing the camera. They have a chestnut brown head with brown eye and small black pupil. Their chin and breast are bright white with a chestnut brown waistcoat below. They have been colour ringed: red over-white on the left, blue over metal on the right. Ringed as CL97968 on 2020-Jan-22, born the year before.
November 30, 2025 at 1:18 AM
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White throated dipper. Second of four individuals seen on my walk around the Dighty Burn in Monifieth/Broughy Ferry near the Seven Arches (Balmossie Viaduct). 📷📸🎞️🪶 #birds #ukwildlife
A close-up image of a brown and white bird mostly facing away from the camera standing in river water. They have a chestnut brown head with brown eye and small black pupil. Their chin and breast are bright white. Their beak is slightly ajar as they sing. They have not been ringed.
November 30, 2025 at 1:17 AM
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White throated dipper with caddis-type larva. Second of four individuals seen on my walk around the Dighty Burn in Monifieth/Broughy Ferry near the Seven Arches (Balmossie Viaduct). 📷📸🎞️🪶 #birds #ukwildlife
A close-up image of a brown and white bird facing the camera standing in river water. They have a chestnut brown head with brown eye and small black pupil. Their chin and breast are bright white with a chestnut brown waistcoat below. In their half-open beak is a thin tube containing the caddis-fly-type larva. They have not been ringed.
November 30, 2025 at 1:17 AM
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White throated dipper under water! They made lots of dives from flight like his one; sometimes they landed on the water then surface dived. First of four individuals seen on my walk around the Dighty Burn in Monifieth/Broughy Ferry near the Seven Arches (Balmossie Viaduct). 📷📸🎞️🪶 #birds #ukwildlife
A large splash in mostly clear water with a small penguin-like bird underneath heading towards the river bottom past a submerged orange traffic cone. The beak and head are pointing downwards with wings seen slightly away from the body.
November 30, 2025 at 1:16 AM
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Grey heron in a favourite perch in a tree over the Dighty Burn at Panmurefield, Dundee. 📷📸🎞️🪶 #birds #ukwildlife
A close-up image of a large grey, white and black bird hunched against the cold. They have a long pointed orange beak and a white head with a white crest and a thick black stripe behind the eye. Their eye is yellow with a large black pupil. Their grey back has long thin grey feathers over them like a fancy shawl. Down their breast are fluffy white and grey-brown feathers like a long scarf.
November 30, 2025 at 1:15 AM
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Grey heron transitioning to one leg. Perched on a log in the Dighty Burn in Monifieth. 📷📸🎞️🪶 #birds #ukwildlife
A portrait image of a large tall grey, white and black bird filling the frame perched on their right leg on a log. They have a long pointed orange beak and a white head with black stripe behind the eye. Their eye is yellow with a large black pupil. Their neck is grey on the sides/back and white with black spots down the front. Either side are long thin grey feathers like a fine scarf. Their wings are grey with black patches and black edges.
November 30, 2025 at 1:14 AM
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Male chaffinch. 📷📸🎞️🪶 #birds #ukwildlife
A close-up image of a salmon-pink, grey and black-and-white bird perched looking at the camera from a lichen-covered branch set against a pale white sky. They have salmon pink coloured cheeks, chin, breast and belly with a grey head, grey collar and grey shoulders. Their wings are black with white patches and some white streaks. Their tail ends in vee cut-out shape.
November 30, 2025 at 1:12 AM
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Red squirrel by the Dighty Burn in Monifieth! Someone else posted a far better face-on shot a couple of weeks ago on a local group (www.facebook.com/groups/57552...) but this is my first definite sighting in the area. Rarely seen in this part of Dundee I think. 📷📸🎞️ #squirrel #ukwildlife
A blurry image of different shades of green and brown with a fluffy orange/brown animal running down the trunk of an out-of-focus mossy tree trunk.
November 30, 2025 at 12:42 AM
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Crow on a lamp post. 📷📸🎞️🪶 #birds #ukwildlife
A close-up image of a black bird with strong dark grey beak and jet black eye perched on a lamp post set against a pale blue sky. They are quite fluffy around their waist and their is a glint in their eye.
November 25, 2025 at 10:14 PM
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Impressive graffiti at the east end of Seabraes Graffiti Gallery in Dundee. 📷📸🎞️ #graffiti
A black and white, spray-painted, photo-realistic graffiti portrait of a black man looking directly at the camera. The image is painted onto several chipboard panels. At the right edge a bright orange autumnal hedge is just visible with a branch and leaves casting a shadow across their forehead.
November 25, 2025 at 10:14 PM
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A (presumed pink-footed) goose and a female red-breasted merganser on their own together, far out over the River Tay. Was curious if I'd get enough detail to identify them at max zoom. Slightly disappointed I couldn't label them as "a goose and a goosander"! 📷📸🎞️🪶 #birds #ukwildlife
A distant image of choppy blue river water with two birds swimming. The bird on the left is a goose facing away from the camera. The bird on the right is a sawbill duck with a long thin bright red beak, a brown head with fluffy crest and a brown body.
November 25, 2025 at 10:13 PM
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One of 10 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 mostly bright chilly Saturday afternoon. They kept flying towards me, diving under water, and then swimming back. 📷📸🎞️🪶 #birds #ukwildlife
A close-up image of a small brown bird with bright white breast standing in shallow water with a patch autumn leaves and stems 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. They have not been ringed.
November 23, 2025 at 12:52 AM
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Goldfinch. 📷📸🎞️🪶 #birds #ukwildlife
A brown and white bird with bright red and orange face, a pointed beak and flash of gold on its black wings.
November 23, 2025 at 12:51 AM
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Male blackbird. 📷📸🎞️🪶 #birds #ukwildlife
A close-up image of a black bird with orange/yellow beak and a yellow eye ring perched on a small branch with a pale orange and blue sky background.
November 23, 2025 at 12:50 AM
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Great tit, likely male. 📷📸🎞️🪶 #birds #ukwildlife
A close-up image of a black, white and yellow bird perched on a branch. Their breast and underbelly is fluffy yellow with a thick black stripe down the middle. Their head, chin, eye and beak are jet black with a large white patch on their cheek below their eye.
November 23, 2025 at 12:49 AM
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Robin. 📷📸🎞️🪶 #birds #ukwildlife #birdbutt
A close-up image of a round ball of a brown and white bird seen from behind perched on a branch set against a deep blue sky. Their back, wings and tail are dark brown. Their underparts are fluffy white and grey.
November 23, 2025 at 12:48 AM
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Female kingfisher at Panmurefield weir in Broughty Ferry. Always surprised how small they are. 📷📸🎞️🪶 #birds #ukwildlife
A bright blue, white and orange bird with a jet black eye and a long sharp beak perched on a dead dark brown giant hogweed stem. Their head and wings are dark blue with pale blue speckles; their back is a luminous pale blue stripe. They have patches of white and orange on their checks and chin. Their breast is orange. The bottom of their beak is slightly red indicating a female.
November 23, 2025 at 12:47 AM
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Autumn reflections at Panmurefield weir in Broughty Ferry. 📷📸🎞️ #reflections
A portrait image of a leafless brown tree with autumn leaves and green weeds on the bank behind. The tree and branches are seen in reflection in still water in the foreground.
November 23, 2025 at 12:47 AM
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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