Some pictures I took recently

Bonedigger

paulusdu

Keps, is that down in Doolin ? (the long legs)

keps

paulusdu wrote: »

Keps, is that down in Doolin ? (the long legs)

j
Yes indeed - it's just as you exit the 'harbour' by boat .- on that mini island there

Vizzy

keps wrote: »

j
Yes indeed - it's just as you exit the 'harbour' by boat .- on that mini island there

Crab Island, great (and extremely dangerous) surf spot .

keps

On the boat rail

Bonedigger

Hey Keps - Have you nothing better to do on holidays but to post on boards?
Take a break man!:D
Just kidding of course.I'm enjoying your pics from what is a beautiful part of the world.:)

keps

Close to the water

keps

I'll put a few together;)- from Clare

Great black backed gull



Think this is its 'chick' - kept following it around looking for food - but had a black beak??

blue4ever

A swan cools itself in the falling water from the waterfall @ Rathfarnham Weir on the Dodder.

I was particularly jealous...

Bonedigger

Fruit1985

Robin Red Breast, National Botanic Gardens, Glasnevin, Dublin

Capercaille

V_Moth

keps wrote: »

I'll put a few together;)- from Clare

Great black backed gull

Think this is its 'chick' - kept following it around looking for food - but had a black beak??

Unless it is a trick of the light, it looks to dark to me for a juvenile Great BB Gull - see here for example. I suspect it might be a juvenile Herring or Lesser Black-backed Gull opportunistically following the GBB Gull and hoping for some scraps.

On the boat rail

For whatever reason, Rock Pipits seem to frequently visit boats. I have seen them flying out even considerable distances (2 or 3 kms) over the sea out to a boat, have a quick look around before flying back again.

keps

Thanks V Moth for taking the time to respond... it may have been the light ok( or my under-exposure) as here is another shot of the same bird from a different angle

keps

keps

Starlings sunbathing today on the back-garden hedge

Bonedigger

Small Copper:




Six-spot Burnet cocoon with pupa inside:




Newly emerged Six-spot Burnet(note the pupa wedged at the top of the cocoon):

V_Moth

keps wrote: »

Thanks V Moth for taking the time to respond... it may have been the light ok( or my under-exposure) as here is another shot of the same bird from a different angle

Yeah, definitely not a Great Black-back youngster. Possibly a Lesser BB Gull as it looks slightly pale for a Herring Gull, but there is some overlap.

keps

Just blending in

Bonedigger

Eyebright - Euphrasia officinalis

Capercaille

From coastal machair, Is this eyebright as well?

Bonedigger

Yes,that's Eyebright as well.I live close to the Curragh in Co.Kildare and it's absolutely covered with it at the moment.It's a really pretty little plant.

bernard0368

splish

Hetertoma planicornis, a mirid bug with distinctive broad and flattened 2nd antennal segment.

keps

Didn't have the right lens today so these are large 'blow-ups' - but they show in their own grainy way a grey wagtail feeding







The second photo is at 1/5000th sec

Cork boy 55

Cinnabar Larvae (Tyria jacobaeae)
hhh 004 by cork boy 55, on Flickr

Cork boy 55

Entrance to Glenanair Forest, Ballyhoura Mountains, Ireland
Glenanair forest by cork boy 55, on Flickr

keps

splish

Barkfly


Ichneumonid


Eriothrix rufomaculata


Flying ant


Neoitamus cyanurus

OpenYourEyes

Common Tern in flight on Rockabill.
(Picture taken under NPWS license)

Common Tern, Rockabill by BBurke88, on Flickr