Tour Scotland Photographs Throwing The Weight Ceres Highland Games

Tour Scotland photograph of throwing the weight at Ceres Highland Games, Fife, Scotland.

Tour Scotland photograph of throwing the weight at Ceres Highland Games, Fife, Scotland.

Tour Scotland photograph of throwing the weight at Ceres Highland Games, Fife, Scotland. The Weight Over the Bar competition is a test of strength featured at Scottish Highland games. The weight is thrown one handed over a bar set at increasing heights above the thrower. The thrower has three attempts for each successive height. Places are determined by maximum height reached with the fewest misses.

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Tour Scotland Photograph Cycle Race Ceres Highland Games

Tour Scotland photograph of a cycle race at Ceres Highland Games, Fife, Scotland.

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Tour Scotland Photographs Putting The Shot Ceres Highland Games

Tour Scotland photograph of Putting The Shot at Ceres Highland Games, Fife, Scotland.

Tour Scotland photograph of Putting The Shot at Ceres Highland Games, Fife, Scotland. The shot put is a track and field event at a Scottish Highland Games involving " putting ", throwing in a pushing motion, a heavy metal ball, called the shot, as far as possible. It is common to use the term " shot put " to refer to both the shot itself and to the putting, throwing, action.

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Tour Scotland Photograph Wildcat Cairngorms

Tour Scotland photograph of a wildcat in the Cairngorms of Scotland. The Scottish wildcat is one of the most elusive and enigmatic of our carnivores. It is certainly amongst our rarest, having been persecuted in Britain since the Middle Ages and suffered a steady decrease in its range. The population probably reached its lowest level around 1914, when it was believed to be confined to the north and west of Scotland, where keepering pressure is traditionally less intense than elsewhere. A reduction in persecution following the First World War allowed the species to recolonise former parts of its range. They are now fully protected as a European Protected Species.



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Tour Scotland Photograph Atlantic Puffin

Tour Scotland photograph of an Atlantic Puffin in the Outer Hebrides of Scotland. The puffin is a striking bird with a black back and white chest, black head with large pale cheeks and a tall, flattened, brightly coloured bill. Its almost comical appearance is heightened by red and black eye-markings and bright orange legs. The puffin's latin name fratercula arctica, meaning little brother, probably refers to its black and white body's resemblance to monastic gowns. Puffins come ashore in Scotland from late April until the middle of-August. July is the peak month to see adults with beak loads of fish coming in to feed chicks. Some of the best places to see them are the Treshnish Isles off Mull, Handa in west Sutherland, Hoy on the Orkney Islands, Noss and Hermaness on the Shetland Islands, the Isle of May in Fife and the Farne Islands just across the border in Northumberland, England.



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