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WildLife
Tour - Slide List
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Slide
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A
male St Kilda wren proclaims its territory in the Village.
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The
St Kilda field mouse.
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Fulmars,
nesting on the roofs of cleitean.
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The
only beach on St Kilda - in Village Bay.
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The
sandy beach attracts wading birds such as these sanderlings.
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Primroses
on the lower slopes of Oiseval, looking back towards Dun.
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These
steep cliffs are home for fulmars and kittiwakes.
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Close
up of a fulmar on a ledge.
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The
bleak slopes of Gleann Mor, where the great skua nests.
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Close
up of the great skua (or bonxie).
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The
SNH warden is dive bombed as he checks a nest.
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The
Cambir - a finger of land jutting out towards the island of Soay.
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A
grey seal swimming in St Kildan waters.
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Soay,
lit by the sun.
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A
group of Soay rams.
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Roseroot,
flourishing out of reach of the sheep.
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Looking
from Mullach Bi towards Dun.
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The
seabirds which nest here come in under cover of darkness and so
are rarely seen.
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Puffin
burrows on the slopes of Dun.
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Puffin
burrows on the slopes facing Village Bay.
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Puffin
nest on Carn Mor.
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Divers
returning from Levenish.
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Close
up of gannet chick.
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A
Great Auk specimen in Glasgow Museums.
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Stac
Lee (564feet / 172m high)
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Gannets
nesting on the summit slopes of Stac Lee. |