Some pictures I took recently

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Male Chaffinch

untitled-4551.jpg by vistafind, on Flickr

A few of these making plenty of noise around the garden today.

untitled-4642.jpg by vistafind, on Flickr

Female Chaffinch

untitled-4678.jpg by vistafind, on Flickr

keps

Violet flower with five petals- in the woodland area of St Catherine's Park
Not aware of name

keps

As you know, I'm not great at the bird ID - but wonder if this is a young robin?
( No doubt an expert will correct me soon):)

vistafinder wrote: »

A few of these making plenty of noise around the garden today.

untitled-4642.jpg by vistafind, on Flickr

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keps wrote: »

Violet flower with five petals- in the woodland area of St Catherine's Park
Not aware of name

Looks like Herb Robert/Geranium robertianum

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keps wrote: »

As you know, I'm not great at the bird ID - but wonder if this is a young robin?
( No doubt an expert will correct me soon):)


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It is Keps. The first ones I have seen this year great fun watching them.

splish

mikka631 wrote: »

Hoverfly photos

Do you submit records to the National Biodiversity Data Centre? There is a great group on Facebook called "UK Hoverflies" with people who can help with ID from photos. It would definitely be worth submitting your hoverfly records as there aren't many people who record them in Ireland.

Interslice

A few shots from killarney national park.

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Male Kingfisher just after a dip.

untitled-4718.jpg by Damien, on Flickr

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keps

vistafinder wrote: »

Male Kingfisher just after a dip.

Wow - that ia a super shot:)

mikka631

keps

St Catherine's Park today

From an online ID search I am guessing that this is Common Speedwell?

Interslice

I tell speedwell by the number of staemen and 1of the 4 petals is smaller/narrower than the rest.

keps

Also in the woodland area of St Catherine's Pk
Insect at no extra cost!



Again unsure of the name? Maybe a marigold?

splish

Keps the speedwell is Germander speedwell Veronica chamaedrys. Yellow flower is Lesser Celandine Ficaria verna.

keps

splish wrote: »

Keps the speedwell is Germander speedwell Veronica chamaedrys. Yellow flower is Lesser Celandine Ficaria verna.

Thanks Splish- you are brilliant:)


Apparently the Lesser Celandine was Wordsworth's favourite flower and there is an image of the flower engraved onto his tombstone.



The First verse of one the three poems he wrote about them:



Pansies, lillies, kingcups, daisies,
Let them live upon their praises;
Long as there's a sun that sets,
Primroses will have their glory,
Long as there are violets,
They will have a place in story:
There is a flower that shall be mine,
'T is the little Celandine.

keps

The heavy rain of late has resulted in the weir in Lucan Demesne becoming a 'white water' zone.

Lambsbread

Blue Tit by AindriuH, on Flickr

Capercaillie

Red Grouse from today.

splish

Orange-tip Anthocharis cardamines eggs on Cuckooflower. They usually lay one egg per plant as the larvae are cannibalistic.

Meteorite58

Wet, windy and miserable day but got a nice surprise this evening when this fella came up to the kitchen window

Zebrano

9R2A0775 by stephen harborne, on Flickr

keps

@ Zebrano- what species of bird is that?

Zebrano

keps wrote: »

@ Zebrano- what species of bird is that?

Swallow as far as i was told

TedR

Hi all

as I recently passed the 50 post mark :-) I should be able to post pics now... here's my first attempt, from Flickr.. I hope it works and that it doesn't break any rules for being too large a file etc (its only a modest shot of a starling but if it works Ill put a few more things up)

https://flic.kr/p/s5KeMF

TedR

Ahem... perhaps some helpful person could let me know if that is a link to one photo or the entire flickr album?
Ideally trying to post just the pic in question

sorry, I know my computers well enough, but I don't do any Facebook or Twitter or similar, so I am not that familiar with how this side of things works

Thanks all