Some pictures I took recently

Isambard

Swan family

gzoladz

Redwing

Isambard

Isambard wrote: »

Sika Deer? some sort of Deer anyway

i think they must be Red Deer...anyone know for sure?

Hotei

Isambard wrote: »

i think they must be Red Deer...anyone know for sure?

Sika Deer.

Isambard

Hotei wrote: »

Sika Deer.

thanks for that

Myksyk

Haven't had much chance to snap my backyard visitors this year but got a few over christmas ...

OpenYourEyes

Starling
by Brian, on Flickr

TopTec

Brilliant picture OYE. So sharp, when you zoom in it shows off their wonderful markings.

TT

OpenYourEyes

TopTec wrote: »

Brilliant picture OYE. So sharp, when you zoom in it shows off their wonderful markings.

TT

Thanks very much TopTec! Honestly, a photo of a Starling showing off their metallic colours and fine speckling has been on my photo wish list for quite a while. I was delighted to find this little guy on top of a cafe, not at all bothered by people coming and going, being hit perfectly by the sunlight and with a clear sky/background behind it!


Starling by Brian, on Flickr

JosDel

Grey Squirrel Phoenix Park

keps

moorhen


Out on a limb

Alun

OpenYourEyes wrote: »

Thanks very much TopTec! Honestly, a photo of a Starling showing off their metallic colours and fine speckling has been on my photo wish list for quite a while. I was delighted to find this little guy on top of a cafe, not at all bothered by people coming and going, being hit perfectly by the sunlight and with a clear sky/background behind it!

I see from the Flickr page that it was taken in Bray. It wasn't down on the end of the promenade at the Boat House Coffee Dock was it by any chance? I always see loads of Starlings down there feeding off peoples' discarded crumbs, and they come up really close sometimes, within a couple of feet.

OpenYourEyes

Alun wrote: »

I see from the Flickr page that it was taken in Bray. It wasn't down on the end of the promenade at the Boat House Coffee Dock was it by any chance? I always see loads of Starlings down there feeding off peoples' discarded crumbs, and they come up really close sometimes, within a couple of feet.

That's exactly where it was I only stayed for a couple of minutes because I felt bad pointing my 600mm lens a few feet above the head of a guy having his coffee! (to his credit he wasn't bothered at all though!)

Hotei

OpenYourEyes wrote: »

That's exactly where it was I only stayed for a couple of minutes because I felt bad pointing my 600mm lens a few feet above the head of a guy having his coffee! (to his credit he wasn't bothered at all though!)

Waving your large lens about in public is just not on!

Alun

OpenYourEyes wrote: »

That's exactly where it was I only stayed for a couple of minutes because I felt bad pointing my 600mm lens a few feet above the head of a guy having his coffee! (to his credit he wasn't bothered at all though!)

Thought so While you're down that area, there's often a large flock of Turnstones right at the end of the beach opposite the Bray head hotel picking through the rotting seaweed.

keps

nonchalant

moorhen

JosDel

Bull Wall pics

Grey Heron

Hooded Crow

Mute Swan

Hotei

Means Of Escape

Pair of Pied Wagtails

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geese


Spotted today in Milltown- heading due east.
Guessing they may be Brent geese??

Myksyk

gzoladz

Today in Booterstown



Snipe



Kingfisher



Teal

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leaf

splish

Mistletoe Viscum album

Mistletoe Viscum album by Ciarán Byrne, on Flickr

Mistletoe Viscum album by Ciarán Byrne, on Flickr

yoppy

How is that growing up there like that?

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yoppy wrote: »

How is that growing up there like that?

Mistletoe is a parasitic plant that grows by attaching to trees.

yoppy

Jazlyn Incalculable Yo-yo wrote: »

Mistletoe is a parasitic plant that grows by attaching to trees.

Interesting little plant that.

Most mistletoe seeds are spread by birds that eat the 'seeds' (in actuality drupes). Quite a range of birds feed on them, of which the mistle thrush is the best-known in Europe, the Phainopepla in southwestern North America, and Dicaeum of Asia and Australia. Depending on the species of mistletoe and the species of bird, the seeds are regurgitated from the crop, excreted in their droppings, or stuck to the bill, from which the bird wipes it onto a suitable branch. The seeds are coated with a sticky material called viscin. Some viscin remains on the seed and when it touches a stem, it sticks tenaciously. The viscin soon hardens and attaches the seed firmly to its future host, where it germinates and its haustorium penetrates the sound bark.[9]

keps

Spotted this guy this morning
He was on the shaded side of the river – light poor and even with the ISO at 2500 it is difficult to capture movement shots with the tamron zoom( max aperture 6.3)

kingfisher

kingfisher

Kinda missed the dive – but this is a ‘blurred’ image of him entering( or exiting - not sure) the water


water ,

And exited – no fish caught


exit

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three

At the weir near the Packhorse bridge Milltown



cormorants

keps

cormorant