Vertically-tilted metamorphic rocks near Carn Eighe, Scotland (Title Photo)

Dear Readers, this week Claire and Fran and Bobby Freelove both had a go at the quiz. Claire got an extremely creditable 9 out of 10, but our winners this week are Fran and Bobby Freelove with 10 out of 10 – well done! Let’s see what I can come up with tomorrow….

1) Cock of the rock

2) Rock pipit

3) Rock ptarmigan

4) Rockhopper penguin

5) Rock hyrax

6) Rock dove

7) Common rock-rose

8) Dame’s rocket (cheeky, I know….)

9) Hairy rock-cress

10) Common rock-thrush

Photo Credits

Title Photo by Nick Bramhall (black_friction on Flickr) https://www.flickr.com/people/black_friction/, CC BY-SA 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons

Photo One By Devin Morris – Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=110542923

Photo Two By Andreas Trepte – Own work, CC BY-SA 2.5, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=36402347

Photo Three  By Jan Frode Haugseth – Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=10534500

Photo Four By Andrew Shiva / Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=46753246

Photo Five By Charles J. Sharp – Own work, from Sharp Photography, sharpphotography.co.uk, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=68629436

Photo Six By Diego Delso, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=18837175

Photo Seven By Tigerente – first upload de.wikipedia 10:52, 22. Aug 2004 as de:Bild:Sonnenröschen.jpg by Tigerente (153995 bytes), CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=291186

Photo Eight By Huw Williams (Huwmanbeing) – Own work, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=3645242

Photo Nine By Ivar Leidus – Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=105182471

Photo Ten  By Pierre Dalous – Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=29067133