Your pictures of Scotland: 2-9 August

Jimmy Reid took this incredible photograph of a long eared owl in the Pentland hills coughing up a pellet.

A selection of your pictures of Scotland sent in between 2-9 August

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An uphill struggle – John Kay took this picture of a performer pushing a piano up the Royal Mile at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.

Jill Boyd took this photo of Highland ponies in the hills above Poolewe in Wester Ross.

Charlie McGinn took this photo as he was walking across the sand dunes at Melvich Beach looking over to Orkney.

Jacki Gordon saw badgers in the Galloway Forest.

A nice shot of the Forth Bridge at sunset by Bill Bennett.

Sean Harrower had a face off with an Osprey, after it made a successful dive near Huntly, Aberdeenshire.

Richard Hall photographed this Puffin flying in to feed its chick at Sumburgh Head, Shetland.

Lili Stirling saw this beautiful tree near Strachan Aberdeenshire.

George Henderson, of 45 Degrees Mountaineering Club, found this mountain goat on Aonach Eagach ridge.

Dwight McAnear captured the colour of Victoria Street in Edinburgh.

Julie McKenzie met 'traffic chaos' at Fionnphort on the Isle of Mull.

Les Sloan captured the beauty of 'Barra Airport'.

Sylvia Beaumont saw these ponies walking in a neat line at North Berwick Law in the late evening sun.

David McErlane took this panoramic shot of Kirkintilloch Rob Roy's first game at their new ground in Kirkintilloch.

Eswyl Fell took this photograph at Culloden Battlefield on Culloden Moor, Inverness.

Jim Sloss took this picture at the top of St Vincent Street in Glasgow of a bus parade marking the centenary of corporation buses.

Sunil Gogna's photo of the Edinburgh skyline from Calton Hill.

Emma Legge said this jellyfish made a gorgeous splash of colour on Broughty Ferry beach.

Jon Davey captured the sun coming out from beneath the clouds - creating dramatic silhouettes of the rooftops on Portobello Promenade and the scaffolding on the steeple of Portobello & Joppa Parish Church.

Jamie Ballantine took this photograph from The Carse of Stirling of the Wallace Monument silhouetted by the sunrise and morning mist.

Jenna Birnie was at the Cunningsburgh Agricultural Show in Shetland and said she was very taken with this inquisitive hen.

Alec Davies was at the Edinburgh Fringe when he took this picture of the view down the High Street.

David Crawford saw this adult Great Crested Grebe bringing a fish for its chick - also known as humbug chicks due to their black and white stripes like the sweet - at Hogganfield Loch in Glasgow.

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