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Some pictures I took recently

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    #1172
    Eyepatch
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,677 ✭✭✭Eyepatch


    Stunning photos, Everybody. Thanks for sharing! Have given "thumbs up!" to all of you!


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    #1173
    westdub
    Registered Users Posts: 690 ✭✭✭westdub


    Im not a birdwatcher but today at work I noticed the birds had gone very quiet and then I saw two of these circling up high....

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    24-08-11 024 by Lucan Snapper, on Flickr

    Then one dived down and caught a pigeon....

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    24-08-11 003 by Lucan Snapper, on Flickr

    Then the other one decided it wanted the pigeon too and they had a fight over it....

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    24-08-11 007 by Lucan Snapper, on Flickr

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    24-08-11 008 by Lucan Snapper, on Flickr

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    24-08-11 009 by Lucan Snapper, on Flickr

    comments welcome....


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    #1174
    trebor28
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    first one is a Buzzard, then the second two look like Peregrines to me.

    nice catch!


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    #1175
    magnumlady
    Registered Users Posts: 3,657 ✭✭✭magnumlady


    Taken this evening in the garden
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    Fantastic Mr. Fox by magnum_lady, on Flickr


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    #1176
    whyulittle
    Registered Users Posts: 3,878 ✭✭✭whyulittle


    First time out with the camera in ages today. Met a Boardsie (nice to meet you V Bull!) and then got stuck out in a lightning storm in very open bogland! :eek:

    Female Hen Harrier?

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    And a new one to me.....

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    #1177
    mgwhelan
    Registered Users Posts: 328 ✭✭mgwhelan


    second bird a female or juvenile wheatear.


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    #1178
    Eyepatch
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    Brilliant photos, All! Especially impressed by the ones where the peregrine's are fighting over the unfortunate pigeon. If you could, wouldn't you love to jump in there to save him! Thumbs up to all!


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    #1179
    Clearpreso
    Registered Users Posts: 118 ✭✭Clearpreso


    Westdub! What pics! What camera/lens are you using, they are truly amazing!


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    #1180
    westdub
    Registered Users Posts: 690 ✭✭✭westdub


    Thank for all the comments, like I said Im not a bird watcher but I do spend a lot of time looking up as I am a aircraft spotter....:o

    Clearpreso wrote: »
    Westdub! What pics! What camera/lens are you using, they are truly amazing!

    I have a Nikon D90 and had a 70-300mm VR lens on at the time....


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    #1181
    V Bull
    Registered Users Posts: 719 ✭✭✭V Bull


    Great to meet you too whyulittle, I got caught in that same thunder storm just after I left you and was soaked to the skin... I didn't get to see anything nice that day but got some photos today in Wexford...

    Kestrel..(thanks trebor28)
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    Ruff..
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    Wheatear..
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    Little Egret..
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    Mama Pheasant and toddlers..
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    Curlew I think..
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    #1182
    Bagmagnet
    Registered Users Posts: 115 ✭✭Bagmagnet


    Planted some sunflowers ages ago, the birds are going crazy eating the seeds now:
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    #1183
    trebor28
    Registered Users Posts: 1,051 ✭✭✭trebor28


    V Bull that first one looks very like a female Kestrel to me....

    where abouts in Wexford were you? if ya dont mind me asking?


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    #1184
    V Bull
    Registered Users Posts: 719 ✭✭✭V Bull


    Hi trebor28, I think you are right, again...what about the rest of my "Harrier" photos, am I wrong about them also....:eek:

    I was at "forgotten corner" in Tacumshin early this morning.

    V


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    #1185
    trebor28
    Registered Users Posts: 1,051 ✭✭✭trebor28


    V Bull wrote: »
    Hi trebor28, I think you are right, again...what about the rest of my "Harrier" photos, am I wrong about them also....:eek:

    I was at "forgotten corner" in Tacumshin early this morning.

    V

    sorry V bull, no just the first one!


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    #1186
    V Bull
    Registered Users Posts: 719 ✭✭✭V Bull


    Thanks trebor28, post amended, I should have gone to specsavers..:)..

    One of these days I'll get it right..

    V


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    #1187
    whyulittle
    Registered Users Posts: 3,878 ✭✭✭whyulittle


    Got to watch her hunt 3 times, plus had a Buzzard slowly crossing my path about 20 foot above my head. :)

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    #1188
    Rainbowsend
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    Lots of Swallows around today, it is so nice to hear them chattering away, hard to believe that they will soon be gone for this year :(

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    These two where chasing each other, the aerobatics where amazing and the speed they were going :eek:

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    #1189
    whyulittle
    Registered Users Posts: 3,878 ✭✭✭whyulittle


    Definitely a Buzzard :P

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    #1190
    trebor28
    Registered Users Posts: 1,051 ✭✭✭trebor28


    ^^ very good one whyulittle!


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    #1191
    whyulittle
    Registered Users Posts: 3,878 ✭✭✭whyulittle


    Yeah this is the one that gave me a great display overhead the other day. Unfortunately it was dull and overcast, but you can't have it all!

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    #1192
    cooley wildlife photography
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4 ✭cooley wildlife photography


    some brilliant raptor shots there


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    #1193
    Eyepatch
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,677 ✭✭✭Eyepatch


    Well captured! Thumbs up!


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    #1194
    Rainbowsend
    Registered Users Posts: 938 ✭✭✭Rainbowsend


    Dipper
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    Goldcrest
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    Treecreeper
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    Red Kite
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    Longtailed Tit
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    #1195
    Eyepatch
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    What can I say? Brilliant shots! :D


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    #1196
    E39MSport
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    Lucky enough to get an extended viewing of this beauty. My first. Being fed by a poor knackered out Robin.

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    #1197
    Eyepatch
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    What a fabulous looking bird! Great capture!


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    #1198
    Mothman
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    E39MSport wrote: »
    Lucky enough to get an extended viewing of this beauty. My first. Being fed by a poor knackered out Robin.
    What is curious is that it is a Cinnabar caterpillar in its beak, presumably just given by the robin...
    Cinnabar caterpillars are toxic to most species...I wonder can the Cuckoo manage it though. Certainly the robin can't.


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    #1199
    littlebug
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,832 ✭✭✭littlebug


    Mothman wrote: »
    What is curious is that it is a Cinnabar caterpillar in its beak, presumably just given by the robin...
    Cinnabar caterpillars are toxic to most species...I wonder can the Cuckoo manage it though. Certainly the robin can't.

    According to this the Cuckoo can eat toxic caterpillars, including Cinnabar but...... how does the Robin know :confused:


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    #1200
    Rainbowsend
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    littlebug wrote: »
    According to this the Cuckoo can eat toxic caterpillars, including Cinnabar but...... how does the Robin know :confused:

    Aint nature wunnerful :)


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    #1201
    whyulittle
    Registered Users Posts: 3,878 ✭✭✭whyulittle


    Rainbowsend wrote: »
    Red Kite

    Where was this?

    E39MSport wrote: »
    Lucky enough to get an extended viewing of this beauty.

    Cuckoos stopped calling a good white ago at Lough Boora - never dawned on me to keep an eye out for chicks!


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