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where am I?

  • 12-03-2008 7:14pm
    #1
    skydancer
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    Today I saw hares, rabbits, but no foxes, lots of oyster catchers and lapwings, a couple of coots and buzzards.


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  • #2
    littlebug
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    skydancer wrote: »
    Today I saw hares, rabbits, but no foxes, lots of oyster catchers and lapwings, a couple of coots and buzzards.

    Somewhere in Co Louth... hmmm let's see... near Blackrock?


  • #3
    The Hill Billy
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    What are you doing in my back garden?! Seriously.


  • #4
    skydancer
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    littlebug wrote: »
    Somewhere in Co Louth... hmmm let's see... near Blackrock?

    nope, nowhere in louth


  • #5
    skydancer
    Closed Accounts Posts: 54 ✭✭skydancer


    Hill Billy wrote: »
    What are you doing in my back garden?! Seriously.

    hee hee, mmmm, where is yur back garden??


  • #6
    skydancer
    Closed Accounts Posts: 54 ✭✭skydancer


    Right now it's raining and I can see a pair of buzzards and several seals from my window.


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  • #7
    skydancer
    Closed Accounts Posts: 54 ✭✭skydancer


    Also from my window, cause it's still raining, lots of eider, a pair of shelduck, a red breaster merganser and a couple of pied wagtails.


  • #8
    stevoman
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    wexford????


  • #9
    boneless
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    Why of course.... you're at home looking out the window!! :p

    Seriously though, if you are seeing all that I want to be there!!! Last time I saw merganser was in Strangford Lough.


  • #10
    skydancer
    Closed Accounts Posts: 54 ✭✭skydancer


    yeah I'm in my house - not in wexford or strangford - but nearer to strangford than wexford ... and its stopped raining


  • #11
    skydancer
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    boneless wrote: »
    Seriously though, if you are seeing all that I want to be there!!!
    Yeah :-) where i am in well know as a birdy place


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  • #12
    blackbelt
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    Ok I can think of a few places.You are either in Bettystown,Co Meath , Skerries,Co Dublin or the Cooley Peninsula (sp).


  • #13
    stevoman
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    i tell you what. tell me or i get your IP address and find out. LOL


  • #14
    skydancer
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    blackbelt wrote: »
    You are either in Bettystown,Co Meath , Skerries,Co Dublin or the Cooley Peninsula (sp).

    none of these, although i am sure they are all lovely places
    now off to see what else i can see ......


  • #15
    blackbelt
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    Hang on,I'll get this.You are in Donegal,Mayo (Clew Bay or Achill) or Leenane,Co Galway.


  • #16
    dodgyme
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    north dublin?


  • #17
    The Hill Billy
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    skydancer wrote: »
    hee hee, mmmm, where is yur back garden??
    Just north of Skerries.

    I'm guessing that you're somewhere in the vicinity of Howth.


  • #18
    boneless
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    skydancer wrote: »
    yeah I'm in my house - not in wexford or strangford - but nearer to strangford than wexford ... and its stopped raining


    Along the shores of Belfast Lough perhaps??

    I'm still jealous!!:p


  • #19
    littlebug
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    rostrevor


  • #20
    skydancer
    Closed Accounts Posts: 54 ✭✭skydancer


    so far, so wrong :-)
    hope you will all visit sometime
    my internet connection is a bit sporadic so apologies for delays in responding
    feel free to ask me questions if that helps work out where i am
    then i will give some more clues


  • #21
    skydancer
    Closed Accounts Posts: 54 ✭✭skydancer


    Hi, I'm going to kinda give away my location now. Today we went looking for two birds - a pair of choughs - rare for where i am but they returned last week and breed here successfully last year (for the first time in a LONG time)! Needless to say we didn't find them, but they are in the locality so we'll keep an eye out. We did see two buzzards, lots of hooded crows and a raven while we were looking. If you need another clue, it's in the very first post. This place is notable for what isn't here as well as what is here - no foxes ... or badgers, or hedgehogs, or squirrels. Of course, the bird most associated with where I am hasn't arrived here yet, got to wait another month or so for that.


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  • #22
    artieanna
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    Would you be off the mainland????


  • #23
    littlebug
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    If we just name all the islands in turn we'll eventually get there! My money is on Donegal. Tory?


  • #24
    boneless
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    Rathlin.


  • #25
    skydancer
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    Congratulations Boneless, Pint For You In Mccuaigs Bar In Rathlin :-)


  • #26
    boneless
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    I might hold you to that... I may be there in June to assess an archaeological site!! :D It's a grand spot...

    Edit... was watching choughs in Mayo last month!!


  • #27
    littlebug
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    boneless wrote: »
    I might hold you to that... I may be there in June to assess an archaeological site!! :D It's a grand spot...

    Edit... was watching choughs in Mayo last month!!

    Can I be nosy and ask where in Mayo?


  • #28
    boneless
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    littlebug wrote: »
    Can I be nosy and ask where in Mayo?


    Up on Downpatrick Head. Saw a pair.


  • #29
    littlebug
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    skydancer wrote: »
    Congratulations Boneless, Pint For You In Mccuaigs Bar In Rathlin :-)

    Excellent game skydancer and Rathlin sounds like heaven:D


  • #30
    artieanna
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    AAAA come on surely I deserve a runners up prize of a coke

    I did say you were probably off the mainland:mad::mad::mad:



    :D:D:D


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  • #31
    skydancer
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    thank you all for playing :-)
    and aye artieanna there is a coke lined up on the bar for u 2!
    and a wee update on the rathlin choughs - we did get to see them this week which was fantastic!
    this is a great place and hope y'all make it some time - best is the seabird season (may-july) but there is always plenty to see
    v stormy here today and there has been no ferry today - it's great to be storm bound :-)


  • #32
    boneless
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    Will be sure to take you up on the offer!! Are there still peregrines nesting there?


  • #33
    skydancer
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    boneless wrote: »
    Are there still peregrines nesting there?

    yes, though i havent seen any this trip
    also sparrow hawk, long eared owl, barn owl, and visiting hen harriers and on rare occassions a golden eagle has been seen - more likely from the mull of kintyre but also poss from glenveigh, i think there was a merlin around last week and as i mentioned before there are quite a lot of buzzards for a small place! the buzzards have been v low over the house and garden which has been great.


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