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Durlston, Dorset

Tags:   Marbled White Melanargia galathea

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Always a pleasure to snap one of these tricky customers reeling away deep in the reedbed, It will soon be that time again for a repeat performance fingers crossed, Suffolk.

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Oa is a peninsula in the south-west of the island of Islay in the Scottish Hebrides. It is now famous for its many whisky distilleries, but in the early nineteenth century it supported a much larger population than today. Oa itself supported about 800 people, mainly through crofting, a mostly subsistence form of farming, but it was almost completely cleared of people around that time. Some of the displaced crofters were luckier than others; at least some had their passage to Canada paid for when they were forced out of their homes.
Oa now contains a few farms and a spectacular nature reserve managed by the RSPB, featuring windswept cliffs and moorland. We saw several meadow pipits during our walk.
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Tags:   Anthus pratensis Europe Great Britain Islay Mull of Oa Oa Scotland bird fauna meadow pipit pipit

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