Farmland ploughed in preparation for sowing black oats. This is machair, a sandy grassland that is unique to Western Scotland and northwest Ireland. P

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Farmland ploughed in preparation for sowing black oats. This is machair, a sandy grassland that is unique to Western Scotland and northwest Ireland. Photographed in the Outer Hebrides, Scotland, UK.

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