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Some pictures I took recently

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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,677 ✭✭✭Eyepatch


    But for you, Kep, it could have ended up very badly for the woman and her dog. It must have been freezing in the water. We don't need any more tragic deaths, this week.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,324 ✭✭✭keps


    some pics from this morning before any drama unfolded!

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 538 ✭✭✭splish


    Good days birding at Carne Harbour. Black Redstart & good views of Buzzard, Merlin & this Kestrel the highlights.

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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,077 ✭✭✭Capercaille


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    Baranacle geese grazing fields near the farm. Had a small flock of twite on the farm at the weekend, feeding on wild flower/wild grass seeds.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 538 ✭✭✭splish


    Reed Bunting Emberiza schoeniclus male

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    Reed Bunting Emberiza schoeniclus female

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    Linnets Carduelis cannabina

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,324 ✭✭✭keps


    Friendly fella :)
    This morning Lucan Demesne


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 538 ✭✭✭splish


    Distant views of 4 Goosander near Kildavin, Co. Carlow.

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  • Registered Users Posts: 438 ✭✭Chisler2


    keps wrote: »
    Thanks Capercaille for the post and for all the work you are doing!

    Your post just made my day:)

    What is 18-6-12? I'd like to do what you are doing to encourage diverse birdlife but don't know enough! Wonderful post............thank you.:)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 538 ✭✭✭splish


    Chisler2 wrote: »
    What is 18-6-12? I'd like to do what you are doing to encourage diverse birdlife but don't know enough! Wonderful post............thank you.:)

    Fertiliser.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,487 ✭✭✭✭Alun


    splish wrote: »
    Fertiliser.
    Specifically, an NPK fertilizer. The 3 numbers refer to the percentages of Nitrogen (N), Phosphorus (p) and Potassium (K).


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,077 ✭✭✭Capercaille


    Chisler2 wrote: »
    What is 18-6-12? I'd like to do what you are doing to encourage diverse birdlife but don't know enough! Wonderful post............thank you.:)
    The 18-6-12 will encourage a profusion of iris growth in the spring. When the corncrake return from Africa in April/May they seek out strands of early growing plants like nettles/iris/umbellifers. The grass in the meadows is still to short for them at that time of year. When the meadows reach 20cm they move into the grass meadows. One of the main limiting factors for Irish Corncrakes is lack of early cover early in the year, due to over-grazing and farmers getting rid of iris/nettles/umbellifers.

    I would not spread 18-6-12 over the whole farm, too much fertilizer would damage the mixed species wildflower/wild grasses on the farm.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,324 ✭✭✭keps


    This morning Lucan Demesne-

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,953 ✭✭✭homerhop


    Walking the wood earlier today, There seems to be a big crop of pine cones this year.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,042 ✭✭✭spooky donkey


    Early one morning when driving though Lucan....

    15168660931_4948890daa.jpgHerron in a tree by BarryKelly, on Flickr


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,324 ✭✭✭keps


    Early one morning when driving though Lucan....


    I know that bird on first name terms:)
    And so I think does Rainbowsend!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,143 ✭✭✭DellyBelly


    Early one morning when driving though Lucan....

    15168660931_4948890daa.jpgcrane in a tree by BarryKelly, on Flickr

    Just to let you know it is a heron and not a crane which are much rarer in Ireland and you wouldn't find them up a tree. They are land birds


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,003 ✭✭✭Zoo4m8


    A Heron is quite often referred to as Crane in this country.. Often explained as a lingering reference to a time when Cranes would have been seen regularly..


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    Zoo4m8 wrote: »
    A Heron is quite often referred to as Crane in this country.. Often explained as a lingering reference to a time when Cranes would have been seen regularly..

    It's one of those errors that always gets my goat. :mad:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,204 ✭✭✭dodderangler


    It's one of those errors that always gets my goat. :mad:

    Definitely nt a goat :)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    Definitely nt a goat :)

    As I wrote it I knew someone would go for the obvious response to the term "goat". Congratulations! :)


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,003 ✭✭✭Zoo4m8


    It's one of those errors that always gets my goat. :mad:

    Don't let it...life's way to short..it's just an 'Irishism' used by folk who wouldn't be up to speed on bird id. Two more that come to mind that were used by older men I worked with years ago, 'Jay Thrush' was a Mistle Thrush and any little brown bird that wasn't a Robin or a member of the Tit family was a 'Flinch' and I have spelt that as they said it...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,979 ✭✭✭Eddie B


    It's one of those errors that always gets my goat. :mad:

    That, and Weasel!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 538 ✭✭✭splish


    Woodpigeon shot that I never got round to posting.

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 719 ✭✭✭V Bull


    A female Sparrowhawk that I rescued from a very busy Dublin road last Thursday. She was obviously hit by a car or whatever and was lying between the inner and over-taking lanes, just by chance I saw her flapping on the ground and a gap in the traffic allowed me to grab her. After about an hour or so she came around so I drove back to the same area that I found her and let her go, she didn't seem to have any problem flying off, just hope the after shock didn't get her.

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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,077 ✭✭✭Capercaille


    V Bull wrote: »
    A female Sparrowhawk that I rescued from a very busy Dublin road last Thursday. She was obviously hit by a car or whatever and was lying between the inner and over-taking lanes, just by chance I saw her flapping on the ground and a gap in the traffic allowed me to grab her. After about an hour or so she came around so I drove back to the same area that I found her and let her go, she didn't seem to have any problem flying off, just hope the after shock didn't get her.

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    Great work!!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 619 ✭✭✭vistafinder


    Red Squirrel

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    Blue Tit

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    Great Tit

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    Chaffinch

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    Great Tit

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    Blue Tit

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,042 ✭✭✭spooky donkey


    Shooting some deer and a flock of birds fly by...

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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    Shooting some deer and a flock of birds fly by...

    I assume by shooting you mean photographing. :)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 538 ✭✭✭splish


    Jackdaw Corvus monedula

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    Starling Sturnus vulgaris

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 619 ✭✭✭vistafinder


    Goldfinch

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    Goldfinch by vistafind, on Flickr

    Goldfinch

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    Goldfinch by vistafind, on Flickr

    Blue Tit

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    Blue tit by vistafind, on Flickr

    Dunnock

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    Dunnock by vistafind, on Flickr


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,324 ✭✭✭keps


    This morning Rogerstown

    Thinking this may be a black-tailed godwit?

    ( correction : A Greenshank - thanks OpenYourEyes!)

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    Three male teal ( additional thanks to OpenyourEyes)

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    Redshank


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    Egret

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    The long and the short of it!

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  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 3,069 Mod ✭✭✭✭OpenYourEyes


    keps wrote: »
    This morning Rogerstown

    Thinking this may be a black-tailed godwit?




    Greenshank!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,324 ✭✭✭keps


    Thanks OpenYourEyes:)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,324 ✭✭✭keps


    A Greenshank ( as everyone knows:p)


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 619 ✭✭✭vistafinder


    Robin

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    Robin by vistafind, on Flickr


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 538 ✭✭✭splish


    Dunnock

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    House sparrow

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 538 ✭✭✭splish


    Male House sparrow

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    Female House sparrow

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,324 ✭✭✭keps


    Back garden this evening

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 538 ✭✭✭splish


    House sparrow in flight

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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,324 ✭✭✭Cork boy 55


    Inactive trio of Ladybirds in Gorse Bush high in mountains in winter.

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,324 ✭✭✭keps


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    Inactive trio of Ladybirds in Gorse Bush high in mountains in winter.

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    That's a very small group of hibernating Ladybirds. They usually gather in much larger groups. The location is odd, not due the elevation but, because they usually choose under logs, in the hollow stems of plants, under bricks or stones, or in sheds and garages.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,905 ✭✭✭fret_wimp2


    Taken in Stephens Green on Friday. Thought someone threw a rock at me as it dived by my face to nail the pigeon.
    Lived in the countrywide for 20 years and had to come to Dublin to see something like this! Taken with all i had, a 35mm prime from about 2 feet away!

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,324 ✭✭✭keps


    Amazing photo- award winning I'd say


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,905 ✭✭✭fret_wimp2


    keps wrote: »
    Amazing photo- award winning I'd say

    Not sure about that, just right place at the right time, with wrong gear but luckily i could get bloody close! I guess thats half the battle though!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,324 ✭✭✭keps


    fret_wimp2 wrote: »
    Not sure about that, just right place at the right time, with wrong gear but luckily i could get bloody close! I guess thats half the battle though!


    That 35mm lens makes the whole scene more dramatic than if it was a taken with a long lens


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 608 ✭✭✭Bonedigger


    How can you follow fret_wimp2's fantastic shot?!!Well done!

    I was just looking at some shots I took during the past year(feeling a little nostalgic :)),and don't think I've posted any of them before,but if I have I apologise.

    A male Beautiful Demoiselle with a victim(I think it's a parasitic wasp?):

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    Bishop Len Brennan's nightmare!

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    Male Common Darter:

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    Flora of Pollardstown Fen:

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    Pollardstown Fen in all its summer glory(you can just about see three swans in the centre of the image):

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    Not strictly wildlife,but saw this guy in a field adjacent to Pollardstown:

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    A summer evening sky over the plains of the Curragh:

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,467 ✭✭✭vandriver


    16083721405_fef9a0f05b_c.jpgBlue Tit by carl cotter, on Flickr


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,467 ✭✭✭vandriver


    15461407794_c8ba77e906_c.jpgHeron by carl cotter, on Flickr


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 619 ✭✭✭vistafinder


    Happy Christmas

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    Robin by vistafind, on Flickr


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