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Another What is it thread ?

  • 03-11-2009 2:50pm
    #1
    Morrisseeee
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    While out photographing near the Galtee mountains, I spotted this bird flapping its wings but staying in the one spot for a few minutes, its a pity I didn't have a larger lens with me, but can ye make out what it is ? some kind of bird of prey I'm guessing, or maybe not !!

    1EEC010270D442DF956DF7B8376CF334-800.jpg

    /larger photo availabe if you click on link.


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  • #2
    tricky D
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    Probably a Kestrel aka Windhover


  • #3
    Morrisseeee
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    Yeah, and I guess he was 'hovering' looking for his dinner !! :p
    Damn, I wish I had a larger lens :(


  • #4
    boneless
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    It is a pity it is not a close shot but more than likely a kestrel. Although it has been pointed out to me by our own Srameen that buzzards sometimes try to hover in order to catch a thermal.

    The fact that your bird was at it for a few minutes probably gives more credence to the fact that it is the former.


  • #5
    Kess73
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    Defo a kestrel. If you look at the biggest version of your pic (1474x1107) using your link, then you can clearly make out the wing shape and the shape of the head as it looks towards the right hand side of your pic.

    Plenty of kestrel in that area, but there have been no confirmed buzzard sightings there as of yet. Most buzzards sighting have been further up the country. Although there has been a confirmed set of two breeding pairs in southern Cork, so in time we should see them arouynd the Galtees.



    The area as you drive from the Limerick/Tipp side towards Mitchelstown is particularly good for kestrel sightings.

    It was the first place I thought of when I saw your pic, as there is a similar looking area with a stream coming down it that is rife with kestrel and sparrowhawks.

    Not sure where you took your pic, but am guessing you took it from the roadside, so you must have had a good lens to get the clarity you did at that range.


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