Some pictures I took recently

keps

Burruchaga

Hi all,

Could anyone help me in identifying the attached? Mallard cross of some description??

Burru

OpenYourEyes

It's a mallard that is domesticated to some extent i.e. one or more of it's parents/ancestors were a farmyard mallard or duck

Chisler2

Capercaille wrote: »

First bird is male marsh harrier. Second is linnet.

Linnet is the 'bird of spring' for me, stuck in the continuing ice, savage winds and snow of the American mid-west! Can't wait to get back to Mayo shortly. Meanwhile my association (pictures of our birds follow soon) is to this, by the poet Longfellow:-:)

An old man in a lodge within a park
The chamber walls depicted all around With portraiture of huntsman, hawk, and hound
And the hurt deer.

He listen'th to the lark
Whose song comes with the sunshine through the dark
Of painted glass in leaden lattice bound
He listen'th and he laugh'th at the sound
Then write'th in a book like any clerk.

He is the poet of the dawn, who wrote The Canterbury Tales
And his old age
Made beautiful with song
And as I read I hear the crowing cock.
I hear the note of lark and linnet
And from every page
Rise odors of ploughed field and flowery mead.

Tiercel Dave

'Small' mountain fire here E Galway last night.





The Aftermath!

splish

Opposite-leaved Golden-saxifrage

Greater stitchwort

MeteoritesEire

on the Golden Eagle Trust facebook page
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=692471727477410&set=pcb.692474070810509&type=1&theater

bernard0368

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keps

Another absolute stunner of a shot Bernard:)

F.R.

A couple of recent visitors

bernard0368

I am sure I heard a Cuckoo as well. I have never seen one and well i be damned if I could find him.

keps

What is the name of the 2nd little bird there Bernard?

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

keps wrote: »

What is the name of the 2nd little bird there Bernard?

Tree creeper. Lovely birds!

keps

Jazlyn Incalculable Yo-yo wrote: »

Tree creeper. Lovely birds!

Yeah I thought so - but so far I've only seen them in a vertical position:):)


As here in Lucan Demesne

emeldc

Fota wildlife park:
This fella kept popping up from behind a fence. I spent ages trying to get a good shot away. And then I got lucky

keps

emeldc wrote: »

Fota wildlife park:
This fella kept popping up from behind a fence. I spent ages trying to get a good shot away. And then I got lucky

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yeah - that's a great capture:)

keps

keps

Back garden today

If you turn over a new leaf...





You'd never know what you might discover

whyulittle

Heard, saw and shot my first Cuckoo of the year!




First time in a good while to get any shots of a Buzzard. This one got mobbed by a Hooded Crow, but gave as good as it got.

keps

whyulittle wrote: »

Heard, saw and shot my first Cuckoo of the year!




wow -Well done indeed:)

would not have known what one looked like.

MeteoritesEire

whyulittle wrote: »

Heard, saw and shot my first Cuckoo of the year!

nice catch-still waiting for them here in Donegal-no sign yet

whyulittle

MeteoritesEire wrote: »

nice catch-still waiting for them here in Donegal-no sign yet

I was at this same site for a few hours on Wednesday, but there was no sign of any there then.

I see on Irish Birding there are 2 records for Donegal in the past few days; in Burtonport and Gweedore.

allthedoyles

Woodville56

Images from Connemara trip yesterday
Dipper & Grey Wagtail

mikka631

Some Deer seen around Glendalough on Good Friday.

Woodville56

To Achill today and a few phonescoped pics !
Wheatears and Stonechats in abundance and a couple of Chough seen

keps

Woodville56 wrote: »

To Achill today and a few phonescoped pics !
Wheatears and Stonechats in abundance and a couple of Chough seen

Great stuff:)

splish

Colt's-foot from a few weeks ago.

natdog

not the best quality but good to see them.DSCN0937.JPG

MeteoritesEire

natdog wrote: »

not the best quality but good to see them.DSCN0937.JPG

anybody know what it is?