Some pictures I took recently

whyulittle

Red Grouse.

splish

MeteoritesEire wrote: »

anybody know what it is?

Red Grouse

natdog

Yeah Red Grouse up the Dublin mountains he was doing a display for a female when I spotted him. Just happened to have camera in the car.

Cork selfbuild

A few deer in Farran woods...









And, couldnt resist taking this when I saw the Ladybirds...

thyme

It's nice to see them back, the Buzzards, six today.

Capercaille

My iris bed for Corncrake on the farm. Growing nicely and hopefully will attract a corncrake like last year.


The mixed umbellifer bed put in during the week for Corncrake. Alexanders, common Hogweed and cowparsely. The patch is very wet so hopefully the seeds will not just rot.


Have several singing Skylark on the farm. Also had a chough trying to drive a grey crow off the farm. Hopefully they will stay away. Migrant wheatear as well.

KJ

LK_Dave

Encountered this struggle while out walking on Thursday.

magicbastarder

got this a week or two back in a woodland in westmeath - about an inch or an inch and a half from top to bottom; looked like a slug, but firm and slightly slimy. anyone know what it is?

Ulmus

I think the "leech" eating the earthworm is the invasive and destructive New Zealand Flatworm.
On second thoughts, it does look like a leech.

Velvet shank

magicbastarder wrote: »

got this a week or two back in a woodland in westmeath - about an inch or an inch and a half from top to bottom; looked like a slug, but firm and slightly slimy. anyone know what it is?

looks like the slime mould Reticularia lycoperdon. It's typically found on standing dead trees, especially Alder. Here's a pic of one looking v. similar to yours!

http://www.discoverlife.org/mp/20p?see=I_UARK1706&res=640

Scotty #

Out on Inishboffin for a few days...

Corncrake


Wheatear


Stonechat


Black Guillimot


Rock Pippit (I think?)


Gannet

whyulittle

Nice one with the Corncrake.

Your Reed Bunting is a Stonechat.

Scotty #

whyulittle wrote: »

Your Reed Bunting is a Stonechat.

DoH! I'm a novice - should have looked closer.

splish

Red dead-nettle

whyulittle

Sparrowhawk - white feathers part of a display? Could hear it calling off in the distance when I first saw it too.




Kestrel. There were 3 Buzzards mewing up high as well.




First Whitethroat of the year, looked to be doing a little display too.
There as a Willow Warbler as well, sitting on a branch singing away, slowly flapping its wings.




Newt




Speckled Wood




One to keep your fingers away from!

Tiercel Dave

@ whyulittle Sparrowhawk, white coverts are indeed part of courtship display.
Newt, I'd guess male from size of spots and width of hind feet.
Insect, a Water Scorpion!

splish

Common dog-violet

vandriver

Juvenile Robin (2) by carl cotter, on Flickr

First of the year.

Wild Flower by carl cotter, on Flickr


I'm woeful on wild flowers,so any information gratefully received.

Ulmus

Wood anemone (Anemone nemerosa). Garden variety? I think wild anemones are usually white.

Bonedigger

Ulmus wrote: »

Wood anemone (Anemone nemerosa). Garden variety? I think wild anemones are usually white.

Yes Ulmus,it is a garden escapee and is called Anemone blanda.I've loads of these in my own garden and they grow quite happily in full sun too - one of my favourite garden flowers!

Woodville56

Phonescoped this female wheatear on my local patch today - not your regular grassland species in these parts - probably on migration stopover !

whyulittle

First little fledgling of the year with this Robin.

Woodville56

Cool pic whyulittle ! Can I ask what type of camera / lens u use there ? I bought a Canon "bridge" camera a few years back, rarely use it now , just didn't give the results I was expecting - or maybe it's just the user that's at fault and not the camera !

splish

Bluebells


I've been told this is one of the Halictid bees, possibly Lasioglossum calceatum or L. albipes


Speckled wood

Amalgam

Despite its location, beside a very busy road, this tree seems in fine health!

Leaving Blackrock, just short of Booterstown DART station, South County Dublin, a flowering Chestnut Tree.

whyulittle

Redshank




Lapwing




Stonechat, there were a handful of them knocking about.




Golden Plover




Meadow Pipit getting itself straightened out.




Skylark coming back to ground.




And as is often the case, just caught this one from the car on the way out.

Woodville56

Found this little fella on the bathroom window this morning - moth , but which one ? Very small , pic cropped !

V_Moth

Woodville56 wrote: »

Found this little fella on the bathroom window this morning - moth , but which one ? Very small , pic cropped !

It is a Least Black Arches:

http://www.mothsireland.com/species/2078.htm

splish

Eristalis pertinax