Some pictures I took recently

Fruit1985

Some I took over the past few weeks:

Kestrel, Bull Island

Common Linnet, Bull Island

Female Mandarin Duck, Phoenix Park

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Skylark, Bull Island

Mandarin Duck, River Dodder

Grey Heron Eating Lamprey, River Dodder

Long Tailed Tit, River Dodder

Grey Heron, River Dodder

Grey Heron, River Dodder

Grey Heron, River Dodder

OpenYourEyes

Just going through some of last years pictures that I never got round to editing and sorting out - I know I've posted plenty of pics of these species last year, but indulge me :P

All pictures taken under NPWS license.

Common Tern




Kittiwake




Roseate Tern

vistafinder

Stayed around the garden today in the sunshine.

Kestrel hunting alot with a couple of weeks now.


Kestrel by vistafind, on Flic

Holly Blue


Holly Blue by vistafind, on Flickr

Small Tortoiseshell


Small Tortoiseshell by vistafind, on Flickr


Small Tortoiseshell by vistafind, on Flickr

Robin


Robin by vistafind, on Flickr

keps

vistafinder wrote: »

Stayed around the garden today in the sunshine.

Kestrel hunting alot with a couple of weeks now.

Love all those photos Vistafinder - but that Kestrel photo is really fantastic.

keps

@Fruit985


I'm not good at fish identification( almost as bad as my bird id record:rolleyes:)


Is that a trout the heron has caught?-- really great series of photos by the way.

splish

Greater Stitchwort Stellaria holostea



Ramsons Allium ursinum

keps

Wren, this morning Lucan Demesne. They can certainly sing 'above their weight'.

chrisb1

Nearly stood one this wee chap while out fishing one evening

whyulittle

First Cuckoo of the year here this evening. Was finding plenty of caterpillars.




And already under the close watch of the local Meadow Pipits!




Whimbrel, or Curlew? Silent in flight over some bog.

dodderangler

keps wrote: »

@Fruit985


I'm not good at fish identification( almost as bad as my bird id record:rolleyes:)


Is that a trout the heron has caught?-- really great series of photos by the way.

Yes and a good feckin size one at that.

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dodderangler wrote: »

Yes and a good feckin size one at that.

And he has more right to it than we do.

dodderangler

Jazlyn Incalculable Yo-yo wrote: »

And he has more right to it than we do.

Not on my dodder :P

Bonedigger

Flora in bloom on the Curragh this afternoon

Common fumitory - Fumaria officinalis




Hairy Bittercress - Cardamine hirsuta


Field Wood-rush - Luzula campestris




Daisy - Bellis perennis


Dandelion seedhead


Not sure what species of fly this is - possibly Empis tessellata. I think they're also known as 'assassin' flies because they not only feed on nectar, but will also take smaller insects too. They seem to be particularly fond of Dandelions. If my I.D. is incorrect, I'm sure splish will put me right!;)

keps

From Lucan Demesne, today








Female Pheasant

Capercaillie

Pictures from the farm.
My early cover nettle bed for Corncrake. Sprayed with o.5% Roundup last week which killed the scutch grass but does not harm nettles. Added in nettle rhizomes into bare areas.




Went to local dump to get sods of nettle. Place held 6 crex last year.



Transplanted nettle sods.


The finished Iris patch:
0.5 acres of Iris Rhizome planted. Iris starting to sprout.

keps

Capercaillie wrote: »

Pictures from the farm.
My early cover nettle bed for Corncrake. Sprayed with o.5% Roundup last week which killed the scutch grass but does not harm nettles. Added in nettle rhizomes into bare areas.



Went to local dump to get sods of nettle. Place held 6 crex last year.


Transplanted nettle sods.

The finished Iris patch:

0.5 acres of Iris Rhizome planted. Iris starting to sprout.

Capercaillie

You are amazing- thanks

splish

Comma Polygonia c-album



Green-veined white Pieris napi

keps

Blue Tit
Lucan Demesne today

keps

Another from today... not sure of the bird species?
Maybe a dunnock?

OpenYourEyes

keps wrote: »

Another from today... not sure of the bird species?
Maybe a dunnock?

A dunnock indeed!

Bonedigger

Whitethroat





Female Stonechat


Male Stonechat


Peacock butterfly


A female Peacock ovipositing on the underside of a nettle leaf

whyulittle

My first Speckled Wood of the year




Didn't spot this little Chaffinch until I was right underneath it




Chiffchaffs singing in the garden last few days

splish

Large Red Damselfly Pyrrhosoma nymphula

Bonedigger

Lovely shots splish!:)

splish

Bonedigger wrote: »

Lovely shots splish!:)

Thanks Bonedigger. My first damselfly of 2015.

Bonedigger

splish wrote: »

Thanks Bonedigger. My first damselfly of 2015.

I was in Pollardstown Fen this morning and there wasn't a single one to be seen!

Bonedigger

The variety of bird species present in Pollardstown Fen at present is amazing. Here's just a small selection I photographed this morning.

Chiffchaff




Willow Warbler


A Female Chaffinch gathering nesting material...............


.................while the male looks on!


Moorhen


The Moorhen looks skyward as a Buzzard flies overhead


I was paying so much attention to the Moorhen that I almost missed this Kingfisher which had perched on a branch not far away to my left. I got a few shots off before it scarpered.



Looks like a Sedge Warbler?

keps

All photos taken in sequence

Was doing my usual walk in Lucan Demesne today when I heard 'the spash'.
Hoping it was a kingfisher diving, I zoomed in on the area only to find a mink(sorry about the quality- dark area long way away).



Then started to follow its progress as it tracked this mallard



Out of the water and back on terra ferma







Then back in again


Getting a bit anxious



Smells a rat- or worse



Bat out of hell

keps

Actually just wondering now if the mallard acted as a decoy.
As I headed back- just passing the area where I heard the mink enter the water - the female called out and all her chicks joined her jumping(slithering) down from the far bank.

splish

Broom Cytisus scoparius