Birdwatching Locations

ShayHT

hey,

Was wondering where people go birdwatching/photographing?

Booterstown Reserve
Wexford Wildfoul Reserve - great hides to keep dry/hidden!
Carnsore Point - alot of hawk? activity

qwertz

Seapoint to Monkstown/Salthill beach.

boneless

I go anywhere!! I've seen some of the most amazing things in the city centre!! I do love Ballinafagh Lake though, near Prosperous, Kildare.

blackbuster

boneless wrote:

I go anywhere!! I've seen some of the most amazing things in the city centre!! I do love Ballinafagh Lake though, near Prosperous, Kildare.

The city centres come alive with birds at about 3 in the morning!

jmkennedyie

Bull Island, Dublin
Phoenix Park, Dublin
Glendalough, Wicklow
But one of my favourites has to be Ireland's Eye (Dublin). Unbelievable in April/May. Haven't been for a while - not sure if the little ferry from Howth stops on the island any more.

Never been to Cape Clear, Cork, but I know all sorts of gems turn up there.

ThE_IVIAcIVIAIV

your momma's house is also a nice place to go bird watching. she dosen't close her curtains when shes getting changed so you can see it all! fuzzy wuzzy wuzzy baby! hahaha

DéiseGirl

The balcony of my apartment. Last week there were 2 cormorants and a heron sitting out on the weir on the river.

jmkennedyie

Hmm. If your apartment is in a small block built a few years ago on an old ruin of a bridge over the liffey...then I second that nominatoin . I once saw a family of newly fledged kingfishers there. They were so close that I couldn't focus my binocolours on them - mam & dad feeding little fish to the chicks a 3 or 4 feet away. Once of those "moments"...

boneless

That does sound special. I once saw one take a fish... but I'd swap that memory for your one any day!!

DéiseGirl

jmkennedyie wrote:

Hmm. If your apartment is in a small block built a few years ago on an old ruin of a bridge over the liffey...then I second that nominatoin . I once saw a family of newly fledged kingfishers there. They were so close that I couldn't focus my binocolours on them - mam & dad feeding little fish to the chicks a 3 or 4 feet away. Once of those "moments"...

I'm by the Dodder, but that does sound amazing. I never saw a kingfisher before I moved to Dublin!! Now, when I'm walking by the river I often see them zipping past in a flash of blue and orange...nature is just fantastic

boneless

D&#233 wrote: »

I'm by the Dodder, but that does sound amazing. I never saw a kingfisher before I moved to Dublin!! Now, when I'm walking by the river I often see them zipping past in a flash of blue and orange...nature is just fantastic

I think that Birdwatch Ireland are doing a Kingfisher survey. Ring them to check it out; I could have got it wrong.

What part of the Dodder are you near? I've seen them near Ashtons pub and down at Bushy Park. Beautiful birds...

Roen

D&#233 wrote: »

I never saw a kingfisher before I moved to Dublin!!.....

There's one living along John's river in Waterford DG. Shame on you!