Some Nature Pictures I Took Recently - II (Seasonal Photos)

IrishZeus

Tiercel Dave wrote: »

@ IrishZeus "Rabbit" is a Hare....
Great selection of photos.....

You've just settled a bet.


My wife hates you now.


:D:D

FlipperThePriest

Repurposed baby bath working out well.



He submerged after I took the phone pic, so I didn't get a chance to grab the dslr.

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Robin

SnowyMuckish

Bumblebee in Salvia in the twilight of the evening.

lolie

Goldenrod crab spider.
Had to google this fella, my neice spotted it on a plant. Never saw one before.

Wailin

Few from yesterday

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Juvenile Blue Tit

Tiercel Dave

Sea Slater

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Swallow in flight

Alun

Tiercel Dave wrote: »

Sea Slater

That's a new one on me, never heard of it and had to Google it.

Tigerandahalf

Alun wrote: »

That's a new one on me, never heard of it and had to Google it.

Never knew the name either but saw it on the beach at the weekend. My first thought was 'wood louse' and from googling it they are related. Apparently they can be found along rocky beach shores and are a crustaecean.

Tiercel Dave

I did pick the most 'dramatic' image to upload, it was a big 'un, easily 40mm long. If you look carefully in both pics there is a Mrs Slater underneath, they scuttled along as a 'couple'.....

New Home

They look like sea woodlice.

Tiercel Dave

Came out of a shed today and this little fella landed on my back, hung on for a while and then fluttered into the undergrowth. I think it's a Tree Creeper.....

Bsal

Rook and Jackdaw sunbathing

tricky D

From the AA/Readers Digest Book of British Birds:

Jackdaw desc.

...occasionally it even steals a home, making a cranny for itself in the base of the pile of sticks forming a rook's nest.

!!

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Spotted Flycatcher with juvenile Chaffinch


Dont know which was more confused

Portlawslim

Anne Valley Robin by
George O Mahony, on Flickr

Reed Bunting by
George O Mahony, on Flickr

Portlawslim

Squirrel in Curraghmore Woods 3 by
George O Mahony, on Flickr


Ballyshunnock Damselfly 4 16.07.19 by
George O Mahony, on Flickr


Four-spotted chaser 1 by
George O Mahony, on Flickr


On a Mission by
George O Mahony, on Flickr

Rows Grower

For the last few days we have been introducing a few incubated born chicks to their parents for a few hours a day before bringing them back indoors where they have the heat lamp and security. We leave them in a terrier transport cage which we can see from the kitchen.

Every year we have an increase in the amount of swallows that arrive here, the terrier cage is placed in the middle of the 8 nearest nests, at least 20 feet away from them.

Today just before the storm and 5 minutes after we moved the chicks indoors the young fella spotted this baby swallow (Dad, what's that small pink thing?) inside the cage, if he didn't spot it it would have been dead from the storm within minutes without a shadow of a doubt.

The incubated born chicks have been relegated to one of the sheds and the baby swallow was put under the heat lamp, after a while it started to move a little and is getting more responsive by the hour but we are not getting our hopes up.

What is absolutely amazing us is how he/she was dropped/placed in that small cage of all places on our few acres.

It has eaten a small fly dipped in diluted honey, some powered chick crumb and taken some water from a cotton bud so far and has done 3 poops, the storm has been raging since it was abandoned so there is no chance of putting it back in a nest. It's a long shot it will survive but it had no hope where it was. I have a syringe now for the next feed when it wakes up.

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Wren bath time

TopTec

Rows Grower wrote: »

What is absolutely amazing us is how he/she was dropped/placed in that small cage of all places on our few acres.

Predation possibly? I watched a Clattering of Jackdaws yesterday around a thrush nest near my garden and one seized upon a fairly well grown thrush chick. It flew across the adjoing field being mobbed by the others. The poor chick was dropped several times before they all disappeared over the hedges.
Could the predator have inadvertantly dropped it onto the cage?


TT

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Blue Tit with insect

gzoladz

My male Sparrowhawk plucking a catch just before completing food pass with the female. At least 3 chicks clearly visible with the scope.

IMG-20200620_091320 by Gustavo, on Flickr

IMG-20200620_091724 by Gustavo, on Flickr

IMG-20200620_091737 by Gustavo, on Flickr

Meteorite58

Herring Gull, Slea Hd ,Dingle today.

Ave Sodalis

DSC_0597 by Caoimhe Sweeney, on Flickr

This guy dropped down into our stove. I left all the windows and doors open and it found its own way out but not before I had to snap a picture

DSC_0558 by Caoimhe Sweeney, on Flickr

Blue Tit Fledglings taking shelter from the wind

Bsal

Think the 2nd picture could be Chiffchaff fledglings?

Ave Sodalis

Bsal wrote: »

Think the 2nd picture could be Chiffchaff fledglings?

You're right, they aren't blue tits. I just seen the eye strip and there has been quite a lot of BTs on that tree so just assumed.



Possibly a willow warbler with those legs?


DSC_0568 by Caoimhe Sweeney, on Flickr


And bright yellow belly



DSC_0580 by Caoimhe Sweeney, on Flickr

Alun

Rows Grower wrote: »

For the last few days we have been introducing a few incubated born chicks to their parents for a few hours a day before bringing them back indoors where they have the heat lamp and security. We leave them in a terrier transport cage which we can see from the kitchen.

Every year we have an increase in the amount of swallows that arrive here, the terrier cage is placed in the middle of the 8 nearest nests, at least 20 feet away from them.

Today just before the storm and 5 minutes after we moved the chicks indoors the young fella spotted this baby swallow (Dad, what's that small pink thing?) inside the cage, if he didn't spot it it would have been dead from the storm within minutes without a shadow of a doubt.

The incubated born chicks have been relegated to one of the sheds and the baby swallow was put under the heat lamp, after a while it started to move a little and is getting more responsive by the hour but we are not getting our hopes up.

What is absolutely amazing us is how he/she was dropped/placed in that small cage of all places on our few acres.

It has eaten a small fly dipped in diluted honey, some powered chick crumb and taken some water from a cotton bud so far and has done 3 poops, the storm has been raging since it was abandoned so there is no chance of putting it back in a nest. It's a long shot it will survive but it had no hope where it was. I have a syringe now for the next feed when it wakes up.

Any updates on this little fella?

IrishZeus

Ave Sodalis wrote: »

Possibly a willow warbler with those legs?

They’re hardly Grey Wagtails, are they? We’ve a few fledglings here at the moment that look similar to those