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Some pictures I took recently

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    #8732
    Zoo4m8
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    https://us.v-cdn.net/6034073/uploads/attachments/630886/420093.jpeg


    Hope this works...the out farm yesterday..


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    #8733
    keps
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    I know... not another bloody heron photo:P

    But it's all I got today.. heading under the Packhorse Bridge


    35389073455_9dee0d34bf_b.jpggrey heron


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    #8734
    KJ
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    Some Guillemots in Gyles Quay.
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    #8735
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
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    KJ wrote: »
    Some Guillemots in Gyles Quay.
    These are Black Guillemots


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    #8736
    Zoo4m8
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    https://us.v-cdn.net/6034073/uploads/attachments/630886/420379.jpeg

    From last Saturday...

    It's HOT!.. My daughters garden, Camden, London..


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    #8737
    Bsal
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    Female Blackbird sunbathing in the garden yesterday

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    #8738
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
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    Bsal wrote: »
    Female Blackbird sunbathing in the garden yesterday

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    It looks like anting behaviour.


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    #8739
    keps
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    Out walking along the dodder today and spotted a kingfisher zipping into a totally shadowed area of branch overhang about 60 feet away on the far side.

    Could not see a thing in that shadowed cluster with 'the naked eye'- but just zapped the ISO on the camera up to 1600 and fired off a few shots in the general direction.

    Not, by any means, the best shot you'll see - but interesting how good cameras are at 'processing' images

    BTW this pic is much brighter than in reality

    35047115920_64830a279a_b.jpgCamera's Seeing Eye


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    #8740
    New Home
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    keps wrote: »
    Out walking along the dodder today and spotted a kingfisher zipping into a totally shadowed area of branch overhang about 60 feet away on the far side.

    Could not see a thing in that shadowed cluster with 'the naked eye'- but just zapped the ISO on the camera up to 1600 and fired off a few shots in the general direction.

    Not, by any means, the best shot you'll see - but interesting how good cameras are at 'processing' images

    BTW this pic is much brighter than in reality

    It's like a treasure hunt! :)


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    #8741
    gzoladz
    Registered Users Posts: 2,196 ✭✭✭gzoladz


    Long eared owl, Dublin

    Amazing (and surprisingly easy) sight yesterday night, a number of chicks calling and very active parents going and coming to feed them.

    Having said that, the "non bird" species I saw there were rarer :eek:


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    #8742
    fin12
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    Flowers in the sun.


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    #8743
    keps
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    Spotted 2 kingfishers in the area a few times this morning. Just wondering if they might be juveniles - they seemed to be trying to identify perches.. rather than returning to a tested one???

    Just got a couple of decent photos...here is one




    34661239144_88b21441e7_c.jpg kingfisher


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    #8744
    keps
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    I have now done what I should have done earlier and googled ' idenfiying juvenile kingfisher'.

    There are apparently 2 tell tale signs

    (1) Feet are darker than the bright orange of an adult -and from above pic section - that is the case

    35334986722_27148754cb_o.jpgfeet

    (2) There is a pale tip on a juvenile's beak( said to be there to help parents identify location of beak in the dark burrow) - this fades in time.

    35334997742_05f43509fe_o.jpgtip


    Again this is the case

    PS : Really great news to have two juveniles(at least) in the area!


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    #8745
    tabby aspreme
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    Cinnabar moth.


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    #8746
    gzoladz
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    Great find and shot keps!

    keps wrote: »
    I have now done what I should have done earlier and googled ' idenfiying juvenile kingfisher'.

    There are apparently 2 tell tale signs

    (1) Feet are darker than the bright orange of an adult -and from above pic section - that is the case

    35334986722_27148754cb_o.jpgfeet

    (2) There is a pale tip on a juvenile's beak( said to be there to help parents identify location of beak in the dark burrow) - this fades in time.

    35334997742_05f43509fe_o.jpgtip


    Again this is the case

    PS : Really great news to have two juveniles in the area!


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    #8747
    JosDel
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    keps wrote:
    I have now done what I should have done earlier and googled ' idenfiying juvenile kingfisher'.

    Pretty sure it's a little male too...think the females lower bill is a brightish pinkish colour


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    #8748
    keps
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    Exploring - walking the plank

    34701522923_b2136ca9b7_b.jpgkingfisher1


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    #8749
    gzoladz
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    Long Eared Owl, Dublin

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    #8750
    keps
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    A group(family?) of five of these ducks has recently set up temporary home nearby on a section of dry land on the riverbank.

    Just wondering what breed they are.. heard someone mention hybrids being in the area?


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    #8751
    JosDel
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    keps wrote: »
    A group(family?) of five of these ducks has recently set up temporary home nearby on a section of dry land on the riverbank.

    Just wondering what breed they are.. heard someone mention hybrids being in the area?


    35485385206_ce999f4e83_b.jpg

    Yes Keps they are Mallard Hybrids


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    #8752
    keps
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    Thanks JosDel


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    #8753
    OpenYourEyes
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    Razorbills
    (all pictures taken under NPWS license)

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    Razorbill (Alca torda) by Brian, on Flickr

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    Razorbill (Alca torda) by Brian, on Flickr

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    Razorbill (Alca torda) by Brian, on Flickr

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    Razorbill (Alca torda) by Brian, on Flickr


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    #8754
    keps
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    35533838175_1fdbc76b53_c.jpgDodder Bank


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    #8755
    allthedoyles
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    #8756
    pegasus1
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    Not exactly something wild, but here is a wooly pig420768.jpg


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    #8757
    OpenYourEyes
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    Common Guillemot (or Thin-billed Murre, as it known as in North America)

    (all pictures taken under NPWS license)

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    Common Guillemot (or Thin-billed Murre) by Brian, on Flickr

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    Common Guillemot (or Thin-billed Murre) by Brian, on Flickr

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    Common Guillemot (or Thin-billed Murre) by Brian, on Flickr

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    Common Guillemot (or Thin-billed Murre) by Brian, on Flickr


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    #8758
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
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    OpenYourEyes wrote: »
    Common Guillemot (or Thin-billed Murre, as it known as in North America)

    (all pictures taken under NPWS license)



    35383860152_0a32836476_b.jpg
    Common Guillemot (or Thin-billed Murre) by Brian, on Flickr

    on Flickr
    long time since I saw just a sizeable group without any bridled guillemots amongst them.


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    #8759
    OpenYourEyes
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    Jazlyn Incalculable Yo-yo wrote: »
    long time since I saw just a sizeable group without any bridled guillemots amongst them.

    Just doing some reading around that topic and one paper suggested that bridled guillemots tend to be common at the sub-colony level rather than the colony-level. Over the course of the day I saw quite a lot of bridled birds, and in some sub-colonies kept seeing more and more in one area the longer I stayed looking! But equally you could be looking at a large number of guillemots a few metres away in the next cove and see none at all!


    (pics of bridled birds to follow in the next couple of days...)


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    #8760
    Capercaillie
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    OpenYourEyes wrote: »
    Just doing some reading around that topic and one paper suggested that bridled guillemots tend to be common at the sub-colony level rather than the colony-level. Over the course of the day I saw quite a lot of bridled birds, and in some sub-colonies kept seeing more and more in one area the longer I stayed looking! But equally you could be looking at a large number of guillemots a few metres away in the next cove and see none at all!


    (pics of bridled birds to follow in the next couple of days...)

    The further you go north, the greater the percentage of bridled birds.


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    #8761
    keps
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    This is the group/family of 5 Hybrid Mallards(thanks JosDel:) )which has recently moved in nearby

    I think they are an attractive lot.. especially the one second from left with that white eye-band.




    35168060860_a251519618_b.jpgHybrid Mallards


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