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Some pictures I took recently

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    #9602
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
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    Kuva wrote: »
    Theirs a white one, had one before, is it the same or different?

    Want to get it again.

    Just a colour variation .


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    #9603
    NEW WAVE
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    Grey Heron
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    Chilling out


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    #9604
    spookwoman
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    Messy eater
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    #9605
    New Home
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    NEW WAVE wrote: »
    Grey Heron
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    Chilling out


    After "The Flash", we give you "Heron, the Flasher". :D


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    #9606
    redape99
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    Hi all, just looking to verify if this is a kestrel or something else? It was photographed in Cheshire in England on a small sandstone hill known to have a couple of resident prregrines but I believe I was mostly seeing kestrels... thanks!


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    #9607
    Tiercel Dave
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    redape99 wrote: »
    Hi all, just looking to verify if this is a kestrel or something else? It was photographed in Cheshire in England on a small sandstone hill known to have a couple of resident prregrines but I believe I was mostly seeing kestrels... thanks!

    It's a mature Sparrowhawk, and I'd guess female.....


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    #9608
    redape99
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    Thanks for that!


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    #9609
    gzoladz
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    Yes female sparrowhawk or goshawk? Difficult to determine the size.


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    #9610
    Tiercel Dave
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    gzoladz wrote: »
    Yes female sparrowhawk or goshawk? Difficult to determine the size.

    Toes are too slender for Goshawk.....


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    #9611
    spookwoman
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    Sparrowhawk. Goshawks eyes more orange, bulkier bird, thicker legs and shorter tail and beak is more powerful. Gos are more grey to the sparrowhawk browny tan colour


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    #9612
    gzoladz
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    Thanks.

    For comparison

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    #9613
    NEW WAVE
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    Grey Heron
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    “Heron the flasher” has decided to clean up his act.:D


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    #9614
    keps
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    30152686118_06939c8da0_b.jpgcormorant


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    #9615
    New Home
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    All taken with a mobile phone, apologies for the poor quality. Ditto for the next post.

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    #9616
    New Home
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    More photos - I think they are Cetonia Aurata.

    Warning - explicit contents. May be NSFW! :eek:

    ;):D

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    The black appendix is part of the scarab's reproductive organs, it tucked it away after a while.

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    #9617
    ganmo
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    Nature at its finest, ants tearing a dragonfly(? Anyone know what it could be?) apart


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    #9618
    New Home
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    ganmo wrote: »
    Nature at its finest, ants tearing a dragonfly(? Anyone know what it could be?) apart

    Looks like a juvenile locust to me, or something like it. I don't think dragonflies have hind legs like those.


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    #9619
    ganmo
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    New Home wrote: »
    Looks like a juvenile locust to me, or something like it. I don't think dragonflies have hind legs like those.

    That would of been my other guess, the wings threw me off...that and it’s already down a few legs


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    #9620
    ganmo
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    First conkers of the year?


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    #9621
    ganmo
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    The only decent pic of a butterfly I could get


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    #9622
    NEW WAVE
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    Swallow
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    #9623
    keps
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    30294664178_e9077ea61e_b.jpgTreecreeper


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    #9624
    gzoladz
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    Great shots keps, he is back? Or this is in Lucan?


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    #9625
    keps
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    gzoladz


    Went out to my old stomping ground - St Catherine's Park Lucan- the growth of river greenery in the last two years has been phenomenal- parts of the walk are almost unrecognisable


    Glad to see the treecreper and egret:)


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    #9626
    keps
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    Ooops - thought I had posted the Egret




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    #9627
    Meteorite58
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    Thought this was a leaf first caught in a web, closer look could see it was a moth, google search saying a Brimstone Moth .

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    #9628
    Meteorite58
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    Down underground in Crag Cave, Castleisland today. Interesting to see flora so far underground. Comes from pollen and seeds brought in on people's clothes and gets deposited in the caves and will grow in front of the lights .


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    #9629
    keps
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    So many berries.. so little time




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    Blackbird


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    #9630
    OwlEye
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    Learning to balance and big brother


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    #9631
    keps
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    OwlEye wrote: »
    Learning to balance and big brother


    What bird is that ?


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