Some pictures I took recently

V Bull · 29-09-2011 7:33am

trebor28 wrote: »

V Bull, presume you mean Lough Boora?

Should have said Lough Boora, all sightings taken from the area around the model aircraft club grounds....:)

whyulittle · 29-09-2011 11:29am

I suspect that was you driving past as I was leaving my car at the aero club. Apologies, I thought you were driving something different last time.

I find that end of the park the best part.

EDIT: You can get good clear views of Lapwing on the short grass "runways" at the Aero Club. They seem to be moving back into the Partridge Habitat again as well. It was full of them earlier in the year when there were eggs on the ground, but they cleared out of it after.

Alun · 29-09-2011 3:26pm

Here's some pictures of grey seal pups and their mothers I took while walking the Pembrokeshire Coast Path last week. Pretty much every inlet and cove on the northern part of the walk had pups in them, and some were very close to the path, literally only meters away. Lots of other wildlife too ... loads of choughs, butterflies, lizards and my first ever slow worm (although he scuttled away too quick for me to photograph). Also more parasol mushrooms than I've ever seen in one place at once.

Blonks · 29-09-2011 6:50pm

Some perhaps uninteresting but quite beautiful mushrooms

Clearpreso · 05-10-2011 1:21pm

Been a few days now since the last post in here, I think I'm having withdrawal symptoms... thought I'd post a few of my own so.

Baby Squirrel in Phoenix Park

ninja 12 · 06-10-2011 6:36pm

Blonks wrote: »

Took this pic last week on holidays in Spain, its a Hoopoe - a rare migrant to Ireland

I saw one of these near Gorey in Co. Wexford a few years ago ( when I lived there ) .

I never knew they came here until I saw it - then I read about it online .
I knew what it was as I had seen one in a museum .

pikaia · 10-10-2011 10:20pm

Brendan

Clearpreso · 11-10-2011 1:46am

A seal catching a breath near Sandycove.

I love these mixed colour pigeons

Rainbowsend · 11-10-2011 2:48pm

Bar Tailed Godwit

Grey Wagtail

Heron

stevensi · 11-10-2011 2:56pm

Nice photos but the Godwit is a Black Tailed Godwit. Look at the tail and you can see why

Rainbowsend · 11-10-2011 7:35pm

stevensi wrote: »

Nice photos but the Godwit is a Black Tailed Godwit. Look at the tail and you can see why

Ahh yes! I always mix my Godwits

I was thinking BarTailed because of the
black bar but the Bar Tailed is actually bars....Thanks for that!

V Bull · 11-10-2011 8:23pm

Having my lunch today at Lough Boora watching this huge mixed flock ground feeding when we were all spooked by a Sparrowhawk & Harrier at the same time...What a scatter...:eek: Quality of photos arent great due to panic & excitement....No prey taken by them, just spilt coffee over my pants...:D

Rainbowsend · 11-10-2011 8:57pm

Free falling!

Clearpreso · 11-10-2011 11:02pm

Oh Rainbowsend and Vbull... why must you make me so jealous of your pics :-(

Well done guys, epic stuff!

pikaia · 14-10-2011 8:22pm

See this fella on the River Dodder in Ballsbridge.

V Bull · 17-10-2011 10:29pm

Some photos from today, in between heavy showers, what a wash-out....

Ooops, shouldn't have had that last curry....

What's on the fence to left background !!!

whyulittle · 17-10-2011 10:54pm

V Bull wrote: »

Some photos from today, in between heavy showers, what a wash-out....

What's on the fence to left background !!!

Brave man out in that weather!

Hate when you spot something in the background, only when reviewing them later on!

Only large thing I've seen perched on posts over there like that are Buzzards. Lots of Merlin sightings from around the country this past week or two. They do occur at LB, and I think they like perching like that too?

mgwhelan · 17-10-2011 10:55pm

V Bull wrote: »

What's on the fence to left background !!!

Could be a male HH.

stevensi · 18-10-2011 11:33am

Think it might be a male sparrowhawk...Seems to be an orange front and a greyish/blueish back but hard to say with confidence really!

E39MSport · 18-10-2011 12:47pm

^^ oh yeah - I'd give my amateur vote to the sparrowhawk.

Kess73 · 18-10-2011 11:14pm

If those fence posts are average to small in height ( say between two and four feet in height) then that bird is far too large to be a male sprawk.

Lovely pic VBull. Love the Dunnock pic in particular.

whyulittle · 18-10-2011 11:30pm

They're about waist height, maybe a little above.

stupidusername · 19-10-2011 9:31pm

I was out at Bull Island this morning, it was great

such a gorgeous day for it, the tide was out, and there were loads to be seen. Still haven't got a decent camera though

I spotted quite a few little egrets, a few grey herons, loads of curlews, lapwings, oystercatchers, turnstones, and redshanks. There's another one but I can't figure out what it was.

The guy here with the long straight bill, sandpiper maybe?

The best I could get of a curlew:

trebor28 · 19-10-2011 11:35pm

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i was out today when i saw about 50 rooks soaring around in the wind. then beyond them i saw one lone bird that at first glance looked like a rook but there was something different about it.
so i grabbed the binos out of my van and saw that it was infact a Peregrine soaring along in the wind so effortlessly that it seemed unbelievable!
i legged it to get my camera but by then it had floated along over my house and on a distance past!
this was the best effort i could get.

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must add it to my garden birds list!:P

whyulittle · 20-10-2011 12:11am

Would love to see a Peregrine.

Fastest creature to ever live, and here it is in our skies.

trebor28 · 20-10-2011 10:57am

whyulittle wrote: »

Would love to see a Peregrine.

Fastest creature to ever live, and here it is in our skies.

I was up a mountain near me there last week and was fairly confident I saw one. Presume that's where the one I saw came from. Would that be to out of the way for you?

whyulittle · 20-10-2011 11:21am

I think there are a pair closer to home, must try and find out where exactly.

stevensi · 20-10-2011 2:20pm

stupidusername wrote: »

I was out at Bull Island this morning, it was great such a gorgeous day for it, the tide was out, and there were loads to be seen. Still haven't got a decent camera though I spotted quite a few little egrets, a few grey herons, loads of curlews, lapwings, oystercatchers, turnstones, and redshanks. There's another one but I can't figure out what it was.

The guy here with the long straight bill, sandpiper maybe?

That's a Black Tailed Godwit.

whyulittle · 20-10-2011 11:43pm

Stumbled across her, just on the other side of a small mound of earth.

Male Marsh Harrier is back too.

trebor28 · 20-10-2011 11:52pm

^^^^
really nice shot!

presume thats your own site?

Some pictures I took recently

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