Some pictures I took recently

stevensi

looks fine for a young perri to me

OpenYourEyes

Yeah I'd be very very surprised if its not a young Peregrine tbh! They are a very powerful looking bird, especially the females, and they're doing pretty ok in the east so it wouldn't be much of a shock to see them in Boora I wouldn't think.

dodderangler

Its a peregrine
I've seen enough of them to be 99% percent sure
To say a peregrine isn't powerfull is a ridiculous statement To make about a bird of prey that is also the fastest animal in the world
Not all peregrines have a blue like colour about them
It's a pere

Rainbowsend

Taken in ECNR Newcastle, the day before yesterday, was a good distance off, so quality is not the best, but I was delighted to finally get a recognisable shot of one.

vektarman

I spotted this in Celbridge beside the Liffey, I've no idea of the species of bird it is though..

whyulittle

That is a Grey Heron.

santasbird

Didnt hang around long enough for a better picture.

Tiercel Dave

V_Moth wrote: »

Whatever this is, I am 99% sure it is not a Peregrine - it just looks too "powerful" for that species. Also, the face appears to be too white and the black facial stripe a bit too narrow for that species. I would guess it is either Lanner or Saker Falcon or some exotic hybrid involving those species. The closest to the above bird I could find is this:

http://www.netfugl.dk/pictures.php?id=showpicture&picture_id=29182

Probably a good idea to post the pics in somewhere like Birdforum to get a positive ID.

I'm with V Moth on this one. This is not an immature bird, the yellow colouring

around the eye shows that. Both Peregrine and Saker have 'blue' nares and eye colour as young birds.




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See here, Eyass Peregrine on the left, mature Falcon on the right.

Lanner has longer, slimmer wings so I'm goin Saker, or Saker cross!

Dave

whyulittle

Unfortunately the only other pics I got of it were from much further away, but someone might be able to spot something in the shape.

I originally spotted it from about 700-800 metres away, and when I went down looking for it, I flushed it out from the ground.

V_Moth

@whyulittle: Would it be possible to post higher resolution pics of the fourth pic from top and the second last one? If I remember correctly, Peregrine should show a narrow white trailing edge to the tail, which seems to be absent in this bird.

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Just to keep with the bird of prey theme, a Merlin resting onboard the Celtic Explorer in the Celtic Sea. Note its missing the claw on its right-most toe:

whyulittle

I'm afraid I don't have any better, they're all cropped to the max.

There were some great shots of a SEO on the Navy's LE Roisin somewhere during the week - 170 miles out to sea.

EDIT: They were on Irish Birding.

emo72

in that photo, the Merlin looks as small as a sparrow (almost!). are they really that small? whats a SEO? sea eagle?

OpenYourEyes

emo72 wrote: »

in that photo, the Merlin looks as small as a sparrow (almost!). are they really that small? whats a SEO? sea eagle?

Short Eared Owl!

emo72

OpenYourEyes wrote: »

Short Eared Owl!

Haha i was way out! sunday morning and fuzzy head syndrome.

KJ

We got a new feeder stand











And some angry birds:

missloulou

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Sorry, I don't know how to resize!! Resized thanks to Tiercel Dave.

Ran into these 2 having quite the fight. Sorry the quality isn't great, they were quite far away. Can anyone I.D. the lighter one please?

Thanks,

L

OpenYourEyes

Looks like a Kestrel to me

whyulittle

OpenYourEyes wrote: »

Looks like a Kestrel to me

And me.

And now for my own problems. I don't think this is the same bird as I posted before. That one was very brown, but this one looked a lot more blue/grey. I actually thought it was a Sparrowhawk when I was shooting it.








And another new bird at Boora today, Short-eared Owl?






And of course, what would be it without Hen Harriers!?




Definitely two, if not three of them there.

Tiercel Dave

@ Whyulittle. Definite Peregrine this time. Mature blue bird, I would guess female by the strength in the shoulders. Dave

trebor28

Im no expert but both look more like Peregrines to me.

whyulittle

I put the other bird up on BirdForum like V_Moth suggested but unfortunately the few replies I got were as inconclusive!

I'd be happy with a Peregrine, I just like to know what I've seen.

dodderangler

Mature female pere by looks of it
Must go to boora one day seems to be a serious amount of bops around
Love seeing them
Was on a break yesterday and it was just bout dark and a blackbird flew in front of me with a musket closely behind it

V_Moth

@whyulittle: Yes to the Peregrine (adult) - interesting to see how much the face pattern changes between the first and the second picture.

Also, yes to the Short-eared Owl. A handy tip is that Long EO's have completely streaked breast and belly, whereas SEO's are unstreaked (except for the upper part of the breast).

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A couple of Common Dolphins swimming along side the Celtic Explorer:

MeteoritesEire

had a flock of hundreds of fieldfares show up on my birthday couple days ago.Got help with i.d. from my cousin as I hadn't seen one before.He suggested fieldfares or redwings and I think they are the former.They've been hanging around for few days now and finally perched on wire outside the house close enough to get a few shots.It's been fun watching them swoop down on the frustrated sparrowhawks.

youtube vid showing large flock http://youtu.be/3ce-cBb6M30 I tried using the YT embed brackets but it didn't work?








link to a 3800 x 1065 pixel shot hosted on panoramio.About 70 birds perched on the wire and there were double that nearby

http://www.panoramio.com/photo_explorer#view=photo&position=0&with_photo_id=81792104&order=date_desc&user=3652051

thebishop

Looks like you have a waxwing on the left of bottom picture as a bonus:)

MeteoritesEire

ha I never even noticed that.Funny as I thought they were all waxwings until I broke out the binoculars ;-)

stevensi

Nice to see the waxwing...there have been big movements of them in Britain so hopefully a few more end up here...

KJ

I went for a walk with the camera today. Can somebody name the last two for me? Im useless with names. Is it a grey heron?

V_Moth

Grey Heron and Oystercatcher. Fantastic pic of the Starling!

KJ

V_Moth wrote: »

Grey Heron and Oystercatcher. Fantastic pic of the Starling!

Thanks for naming them. Yeah the starling was in Howth standing next to a car. Its didnt move while I got closer. I think it was posing.