A photographer has shared images of a rare Arctic bird that he spotted in Scotland after searching for it for "five years".
Dod Morrison from Aberdeen was able to get images of a king eider last week after many failed attempts to capture the animal on film. The large sea duck can be seen annually in very small numbers in Scotland, before migrating to Arctic tundra to breed in June and July.
The birds are known to appear at the start of summer in the Ythan Estuary in Aberdeenshire prior to migration. However, they are notoriously elusive, and are therefore difficult to see — much less capture a photo of.
