Some pictures I took recently

Calochortus

Remote camera images of a red squirrel in Co. Waterford. I've been using hair tubes to collect hair samples for DNA work.

Scotty #

A regular visitor to the garden...





Before Christmas he just had a white chin and a little white on top of his head but the whiteness seems to be spreading quiet fast.

Was gathering some food for the yung'uns. Wonder if any of them have inherited the condition?

V Bull

Out and about in Newcastle, Co. Wicklow today at the East Coast Nature Reserve. Met two great guys working hard clearing the grassy pathways.

Heron & Mute Swan..


Sedge Warbler.. now I know what they look like thanks to Traonach..


Whimbrel..my very first..


Swift..my first this year..


Hen Harrier..also my very first..about 200m away, not a great photo..


An egg on the grass pathway!!!

Traonach

V Bull that egg look like a pheasant egg (I think)

whyulittle

Swallow feeding.....




Still molting?




Sandmartin






Swift




Common Tern

whyulittle

Had a look on BWI site for ID's.

Pochard?




Tufted Duck?




Whimbrel




Caterpillars of some kind.....




Another small frog.....




Stumped on this one.....

Bagmagnet

whyulittle wrote: »

Stumped on this one.....

I think that's a reed bunting

stevensi

V Bull wrote: »

Hen Harrier..also my very first..about 200m away, not a great photo..

That's not a hen harrier. I really can't make out what it is but definetly not a hen harrier

stevensi

Reed Bunting...and Pochard and tufted ducks are correct!

whyulittle

Would you get Wrens nesting in reed beds? Saw what looked like one come and go from one today.

Found this egg on the edge of the reeds as well.....




Redpoll?




Warblers?






Robin with some juvenile feathers left?




Just how miserable it got!

leonvdn

Hello, some recent bird pics from around Cork city, hope you like!

Little egret


Dunnock


Grey heron


Little mallards

leonvdn

whyulittle wrote: »

Had a look on BWI site for ID's.

Definitly a reed bunting! great shot, love these birds

paulusdu

Went for a walk around Howth this evening

Black Guillemot


Cormorant


Duck of some sort, im not 100%, maybe a long tailed duck that got lost ???


Nesting Cormorant


Stonechat?

leonvdn

paulusdu wrote: »

....Duck of some sort, im not 100%, maybe a long tailed duck that got lost ???

Nesting Cormorant

Stonechat?

Thats an eider duck! pretty sure the cormorants on the rocks are shags and that is indeed a stonechat, great shots!

E39MSport

This swallow triggered a security cam on the house.

paulusdu

A few from the last week or so

Bull Island
Shelducks


A MistleTrush out the back garden


Some very small and far away Puffins at the cliffs of Mohar (I swear, there are puffins in there somewhere!)


I'm gonna need a bigger lens !

whyulittle

Common Sandpiper?




I thought Pied Wagtail when I was taking the shot, but not so sure now. Any shots of Grey Wagtails I could find had lots of yellow.




This little guy had no fear at all. So much so that it almost went under the wheel of a passing car.




No fear in this one either, first shot taken at 35mm!






House Sparrow




Chaffinch

Traonach

whyulittle wrote: »

Common Sandpiper?


I thought Pied Wagtail when I was taking the shot, but not so sure now. Any shots of Grey Wagtails I could find had lots of yellow.

It is a common sandpiper. A good way of identifying common sandpiper is the way they pump their tail up and down constantly. No other Irish wader does that.

Second bird is a pied wagtail. In all plumages the pied wagtail has white under the tail. In all plumages the grey wagtail has bright yellow under the tail.

Durnish

Ok, plain and simple.

cscook

I saw moorhens on a nest in Stephen's Green yesterday; when I first spotted movement one of them was bringing a leaf to the one on the nest. That one then went off into the undergrowth, and although I waited about twenty minutes or so I didn't see it again. The one on the nest was busy tidying it up, moving leaves around and so on.





And one of our robins on the patio.

stupidusername

gorgeous picture of the robin I saw a couple of moorhens mating in st stephens green when I was there last week or the week before. wonder was it the same two

whyulittle

Saw and heard my first ever Cuckoos today!






Skylark, I think




Plus a large raptor, or two. Quality is bad I know, but if anyone fancies a stab at ID'ing them I'd appreciate it.

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Traonach

Buff breasted sandpiper, a rare North American migrant, photographed in Tacumshin this evening. This sandpiper can easily be confused with the uncommon migrant Ruff. This bird has a distinct pale eye ring and long primary projections. The Ruff never has these feature. The Buff breasted sandpiper is dunlin sized while the Ruff is much larger.

Traonach

whyulittle wrote: »

Saw and heard my first ever Cuckoos today!

Skylark, I think

Plus a large raptor, or two. Quality is bad I know, but if anyone fancies a stab at ID'ing them I'd appreciate it.

Savage photo of the Cuckoo:)
It is a Skylark.
The first two raptor photos are common buzzard. The last two are Kestrel.

whyulittle

Thanks as ever Traonach.

cscook

The cuckoo shot is fabulous. I thought I was dreaming when I heard one yesterday, I've only ever heard them in the country before, and have never seen one.

Bacon and Cabbage

Hares






Fox


Red squirrel


Puffins

E39MSport

^^ smashin

Bsal

Great picture of the Fox

cscook

Poor birds out in those high winds today.
One of our little robins got caught out - the other one managed to stay dry!