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Some pictures I took recently

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  • Registered Users Posts: 538 ✭✭✭splish


    Eristalis intricarius, a bumblebee mimic hoverfly.
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  • Registered Users Posts: 9,324 ✭✭✭keps


    splish wrote: »
    Eristalis intricarius, a bumblebee mimic hoverfly.

    wait till I get my sunglasses:)


    BTW I thought you were joking about the mimic bit until I googled it- amazing!


  • Registered Users Posts: 477 ✭✭blackbird99


    the cinnabar (very dead)
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  • Registered Users Posts: 9,324 ✭✭✭keps


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 608 ✭✭✭Bonedigger


    5 Spot Burnet Moths
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  • Registered Users Posts: 538 ✭✭✭splish


    Cheilosia illustrata, another bumblebee mimic hoverfly.
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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 608 ✭✭✭Bonedigger


    Mallard female with her brood near Pollardstown Fen
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  • Registered Users Posts: 2,910 ✭✭✭couerdelion


    Grey Heron - Lucan Weir.

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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ Jazlyn Incalculable Yo-yo


    Bonedigger wrote: »
    Mallard female with her brood near Pollardstown Fen
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    It really brings home the mortality rate among young birds when you see a clutch size like that!


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


    Another large family Royal Canal ( a while ago)


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 608 ✭✭✭Bonedigger


    It really brings home the mortality rate among young birds when you see a clutch size like that!

    You can count eleven ducklings in that image,but believe it or not two others were trailing behind too!I presume they're all hers?If for instance another female comes to a sticky end,so to speak,will another female adopt her brood?
    The chances are the vast majority of those little fellas won't see adulthood.
    I've seen plenty of herons along this waterway and there are pike(which I've heard can take ducklings and other freshwater chicks) present too.


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


    Pike will take young ducklings of that size.
    Easy pickings and mother can't really do much about it.
    Herons will also take them aswell. A stray duckling will be too easy for a heron to not take.
    Also seagulls will take them aswell


  • Registered Users Posts: 3,878 ✭✭✭whyulittle


    I was really surprised to see this Damselfly in the front garden yesterday.

    How far would they venture from water?

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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ Jazlyn Incalculable Yo-yo


    I don't know how far but many species do disperse away from water to hunt in woods and fields for a time.


  • Registered Users Posts: 350 ✭✭bogtreader


    Came across this chick sitting on our swing seat waiting to be fed :)

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    My company was boring so it went to sleep

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


    This morning... this guy's( a chick?) tail is longer than its body.

    Is it a wagtail?


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


    Blackcap

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    Treecreeper

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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 608 ✭✭✭Bonedigger


    keps wrote: »
    This morning... this guy's( a chick?) tail is longer than its body.

    Is it a wagtail?


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    It's a Long-tailed Tit Keps.


  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 3,067 Mod ✭✭✭✭OpenYourEyes


    keps wrote: »
    This morning... this guy's( a chick?) tail is longer than its body.

    Is it a wagtail?



    A Long-Tailed Tit


  • Registered Users Posts: 619 ✭✭✭vistafinder


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    A very loud Blue Tit chick.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 608 ✭✭✭Bonedigger


    Painted Lady - Vanessa cardui
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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ Jazlyn Incalculable Yo-yo


    I came across five painted lady butterflies last week and thought it was early for us, until I found out the nearby school had raised them in class for the kids and had just released them that day. :o Apparently, it has become common in schools and the suppliers always send painted ladies. Great to see kids learning stuff first hand like this - caterpillar to butterfly - marvellous!


  • Registered Users Posts: 892 ✭✭✭Art Deko


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  • Registered Users Posts: 619 ✭✭✭vistafinder


    Great shots Art. Whats is that first bird?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ Jazlyn Incalculable Yo-yo


    Guillemot


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


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  • Registered Users Posts: 538 ✭✭✭splish


    Surprise visitor in the garden this morning.
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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 608 ✭✭✭Bonedigger


    Nice one Splish!:)


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


    To a more mundane Heron!
    Liffey at Lucan Demesne this morning


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 608 ✭✭✭Bonedigger


    Meadow Brown - Maniola jurtina
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    Ringlet - Aphantopus hyperantus
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    Speckled Wood - Pararge aegeria
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    Small Heath - Coenonympha pamphilus
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