Some pictures I took recently

Bonedigger · 18-05-2015 4:00pm

My first time to see a Spotted Flycatcher

A mating pair of Green-veined White Butterflies

vistafinder · 18-05-2015 8:15pm

Kingfisher

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keps · 18-05-2015 8:28pm

A bit cheesy I know

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splish · 19-05-2015 2:37pm

Cow Parsley Anthriscus sylvestris

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fryup · 19-05-2015 4:29pm

cheeky seagull on my car at st.james hospital

Bonedigger · 19-05-2015 5:49pm

Interslice wrote: »

burnett of some sort ?

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@Interslice

The moth in the image above is a Cinnabar moth, and you will often see their black and yellow caterpillars on Ragwort. I think the green and black coloured caterpillar may be a Six-spot Burnet larva, but I may be corrected on that. It's certainly in the right place because they generally build their pupae on long, dry stalks of grass.

Interslice · 19-05-2015 5:58pm

Thanks bonedigger. Seen both in sand dunes behind inchadoney beach. Lovely spot. Caterpillar was on the maram grass.

splish · 20-05-2015 8:32am

Yellow Pimpernel Lysimachia nemorum

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Pignut Conopodium majus

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yellowlabrador · 20-05-2015 7:06pm

I was down at Sheepscove near Clonakilty today, it was lovely
some photos
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Wild carrot?

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keps · 20-05-2015 8:13pm

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Interslice · 20-05-2015 8:56pm

yellowlabrador wrote: »

Wild carrot?

Looks like a young thistle flower. Carrots all have that umbrella type flower. Yarrow, hogweed, celery, parsely and the like. Pignut ^^

yellowlabrador · 20-05-2015 9:10pm

Interslice wrote: »

Looks like a young thistle flower. Carrots all have that umbrella type flower. Yarrow, hogweed, celery, parsely and the like. Pignut ^^

It was on a cliff face and was quite tall here's a better picture

Capercaillie · 20-05-2015 9:29pm

yellowlabrador wrote: »

It was on a cliff face and was quite tall here's a better picture

Could be alexanders?

yellowlabrador · 20-05-2015 9:38pm

Capercaillie wrote: »

Could be alexanders?

I don't think so the leaves weren't shiny. I got my Macmillan out and it's pretty battered having survived a fire, but very precious. I'm still leaning towards wild carrot. I didn't touch the plant, because it's such a sensitive ecology, but later in the year, I'll investigate closer.
A nesting seagull. Most gulls had nested in February, but this is maybe a second clutch

Capercaillie · 20-05-2015 9:49pm

yellowlabrador wrote: »

I don't think so the leaves weren't shiny. I got my Macmillan out and it's pretty battered having survived a fire, but very precious. I'm still leaning towards wild carrot. I didn't touch the plant, because it's such a sensitive ecology, but later in the year, I'll investigate closer.
A nesting seagull. Most gulls had nested in February, but this is maybe a second clutch

A fulmar, they return to their breeding area early in year. Only have one egg and a single clutch.

Interslice · 20-05-2015 10:21pm

yellowlabrador wrote: »

It was on a cliff face and was quite tall here's a better picture

I still reckon thistle! A member of astericae anyway.
A carduus species maybe, possibly non native. Was it a sea cliff?

The whole aster family is tricky to ID. Dandelions, daisies etc. If your getting to genus your doing well.

Be interesting to see it in a few weeks.

yellowlabrador · 20-05-2015 10:29pm

I have to make a weekly trip for the next few months, so I'm going to keep on checking. I love that bit of coast and I used to visit it regularly 15 years ago. There's quite a bit of erosion there. There's a little cove with a large seakale but I don't know if I can still reach it due to the path crumbling away. Also a thumbs up to the people who help clear the beach of all the plastic.

josip · 20-05-2015 11:55pm

Malahide Castle last weekend. Are those cuckoo flowers?

Bonedigger · 21-05-2015 9:11pm

Redpoll

Pied Wagtail

Meadow Pipit

Male and Female Linnet

Common Wintercress

Common Stork's-bill

keps · 21-05-2015 9:17pm

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Moorhen

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chaffinch

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splish · 22-05-2015 9:51am

Osmia aurulenta, Ireland's only bee species which nests in empty snail shells.

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keps · 23-05-2015 7:07pm

Nettle

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Capercaillie · 23-05-2015 10:22pm

keps wrote: »

Nettle

Where you don't want them to grow they grow. Where you want them to grow they won't. I have learnt that growing nettles is nearly an art form!!!

Lambsbread · 24-05-2015 2:51pm

The heron were busy this morning:

3 for the price of 1 by AindriúH, on Flickr

Feast Fit for a King by AindriúH, on Flickr

yellowlabrador · 24-05-2015 4:06pm

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One of the most magestic, I'm not sure of their latin names though

yellowlabrador · 24-05-2015 4:57pm

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so I tried again. I hope it works this time

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1 · 24-05-2015 5:08pm

yellowlabrador wrote: »

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so I tried again. I hope it works this time

Nope! What are they?

tricky D · 24-05-2015 5:17pm

yellowlabrador wrote: »

so I tried again. I hope it works this time

Put them in for you

Eyepatch · 24-05-2015 5:48pm

yellowlabrador wrote: »

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keps · 24-05-2015 6:48pm

Was a bit sad to see that the clutch of 5 ducklings I had been watching reduced to 4 this morning

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Then outa nowhere this guy appeared:)

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And all was well once more in the Duck Kingdom

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yellowlabrador · 24-05-2015 9:11pm

Eyepatch wrote: »

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Tanks for that, I'll know now.
Ferns are very special to me as a lace maker. They are so beautiful at this time of year.

OpenYourEyes · 24-05-2015 9:22pm

A visitor to Rockabill today....

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keps · 24-05-2015 9:40pm

OpenYourEyes wrote: »

A visitor to Rockabill today....

What is it?

keps · 24-05-2015 9:49pm

Swallow

Wasted a good bit of my memory card trying to capture one in flight!:):)

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OpenYourEyes · 25-05-2015 8:43am

keps wrote: »

What is it?

A Peregrine Falcon! Amazing to watch it try to hunt Terns, as well as see it getting chased by a persistent mob of around 70 Terns!

TedR · 25-05-2015 11:34am

Great pic of the falcon and tern, well done on fab capture

keps · 25-05-2015 11:54am

TedR wrote: »

Great pic of the falcon and tern, well done on fab capture

Yes indeed - I was totally confused at first as my brain could not register the fact that the falcon was 'upside-down'.:eek:

Alun · 25-05-2015 3:14pm

Female Emperor Moth Saturnia pavonia caught laying her eggs in the middle of nowhere in the Wicklow Mountains this morning ...

splish · 25-05-2015 5:13pm

Thrift Armeria maritima

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Sea-milkwort Glaux maritima

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Sea Sandwort Honckenya peploides

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mikka631 · 25-05-2015 6:54pm

Green Tiger Beetle at Lough Boora, Co Offaly. Spent a lot of time chasing them around the bog until I managed to get one to pose for a while.

OpenYourEyes · 25-05-2015 9:42pm

Common Tern chasing a Peregrine Falcon!

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Eyepatch · 26-05-2015 1:20am

Have to say - I LOVE THIS THREAD! Amazing photos!

keps · 26-05-2015 7:57am

OpenYourEyes wrote: »

Common Tern chasing a Peregrine Falcon!

Super photo

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1 · 26-05-2015 9:10am

mikka631 wrote: »

Green Tiger Beetle at Lough Boora, Co Offaly. Spent a lot of time chasing them around the bog until I managed to get one to pose for a while.

Thanks for this. I was aware of these but had never seen one.

splish · 26-05-2015 10:19am

Common Frog Rana temporaria

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Smooth Newt Lissotriton vulgaris

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keps · 26-05-2015 5:26pm

Lucan Demesne today

Blue Tit

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keps · 26-05-2015 5:38pm

I am not so sure that I have seen this plant before in Lucan Demesne - then again I probably missed it.

If any of the regular gurus knew its name- that would be great:)

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ytpe2r5bxkn0c1 · 26-05-2015 5:58pm

Keps, It looks like Bugle.

OpenYourEyes · 26-05-2015 8:28pm

A female Ortolan Bunting on Rockabill today - we suspect it's the first record of this species in Dublin!

Read a bit about it on the blog: http://rockabillterns.blogspot.ie/2015/05/very-rare-visitor-on-rockabill.html

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Eyepatch · 26-05-2015 8:34pm

That's amazing, OpenYourEyes. Thanks for sharing. Have you watched Derek Mooney's Secrets of the Irish Landscape - how various plants and species arrived in ireland after the Ice Age. Very interesting. Obviously, it still continues.

Some pictures I took recently

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