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Some pictures I took recently

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,424 ✭✭✭bernard0368


    Hoverfly

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    Painted Lady.
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    No Idea!
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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 506 ✭✭✭Hotei


    @ Bernard

    The hoverfly in the last image is Rhingia campestris, the Common Snout-hoverfly.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 547 ✭✭✭Nightforce 65X55


    Finished work a bit late tonight , but went out on the off chance that I might get some photos. I am very glad that I made that decision , the light was quite low and the Shutter speed was even lower but I managed to get some shots of a new visitor to my Raptor grounds.... A Peregrine Falcon.... Pity about the Wires ....

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    And Keps as you requested , here is the Buzzard cropped.....

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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 506 ✭✭✭Hotei


    Parasols

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    August sunset

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    Meadowsweet with a dash of Purple-loosestrife

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    Four-spotted Orb Weaver (f)

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,324 ✭✭✭keps


    Not a photo - but a photo 'heads up'


    Just see that the subject on the 'Photo Challenge' over on the Photography site is 'Grass' which might appeal to some here?

    Link http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showt...p?t=2057644890


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 506 ✭✭✭Hotei


    Common Field Grasshopper

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    Crab Spider

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    Migrant Hawker (f)

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    Cheilosia illustrata (m) Hoverfly

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    Common Darter (m)

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,324 ✭✭✭keps


    Spotted this tuft this morning.
    Could it be grass?

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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    Hotei, Stunning and very natural pictures lately. Absolutely marvellous.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 506 ✭✭✭Hotei


    Hotei, Stunning and very natural pictures lately. Absolutely marvellous.

    Thank you Jazlyn Incalculable Yo-yo.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 506 ✭✭✭Hotei


    keps wrote: »
    Spotted this tuft this morning.
    Could it be grass?

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    I wonder could it be a young Willow tree maybe?


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  • Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 79,649 Mod ✭✭✭✭New Home


    It looks a bit like young bamboo canes, too.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    Reedmace.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,324 ✭✭✭keps


    Thanks all:)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 553 ✭✭✭thyme


    Two moths, lost some quality by resizing them but one was to high up in a tree and the other hid underneath a hedge.

    Common Wave or White Wave, hard to tell.
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    White Plume Moth, a beautiful moth to watch flying.
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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 538 ✭✭✭splish


    Bilbao Fleabane Conyza floribunda

    20822234580_522703f8ce_c.jpgBilbao Fleabane Conyza floribunda by Ciarán Byrne, on Flickr


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,385 ✭✭✭ThunderCat


    Finished work a bit late tonight , but went out on the off chance that I might get some photos. I am very glad that I made that decision , the light was quite low and the Shutter speed was even lower but I managed to get some shots of a new visitor to my Raptor grounds.... A Peregrine Falcon.... Pity about the Wires ....

    396343.jpg

    396344.jpg

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    And Keps as you requested , here is the Buzzard cropped.....

    396346.jpg



    Great photos of the Peregrine, Nightforce. I know you often take photos down by the malahide estuary based on photos you've posted before so I wonder if the Peregrine I saw dive bombing starlings earlier today above the skies of Balheary was the same one as in this pic.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,324 ✭✭✭keps


    Grey Wagtail

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    P.S- Hope that's some type of grass .. I've put it in the 'grass' challenge:eek:


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    Yes, it's reedmace


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,324 ✭✭✭keps


    Not the best Butterfly photo – but I thought Capercallie might like to know that along the Dodder Walk - the 4 mile one way stretch where I have walked regularly recently ( Clonskeagh House to the Morgue) and where it’s feasible – that NETTLES have been allowed to flourish and grow. I’m not sure whether it's deliberate or not – but they are a BIG presence.

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,732 ✭✭✭Capercaillie


    keps wrote: »
    Not the best Butterfly photo – but I though Capercallie might like to know that along the Dodder Walk - the 4 mile one way stretch where I have walked regularly recently ( Clonskeagh House to the Morgue) and where it’s feasible – that NETTLES have been allowed to flourish and grow. I’m not sure whether it's deliberate or not – but they are a BIG presence.

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    Should have not told me, I will dig all the rhizomes up!!!!


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,324 ✭✭✭keps


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,204 ✭✭✭dodderangler


    Having a smoke in me garden in me bare feet and this little fcuker scared the Shiite out of me by walking right into me toes.
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    Havint seen him in a while so nice to see he's out and about before hibernating under me shed. Just wish he didn't walk over me bare feet and scare the b'jaysus out of me


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 506 ✭✭✭Hotei


    keps wrote: »
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    That's Feverfew, keps. Nice shot.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,324 ✭✭✭keps


    Eye Shadow

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 538 ✭✭✭splish


    Delighted to find Marsh fritillary larval webs on Carlow side of Blackstairs yesterday.

    29603507935_a72cb9ca29_c.jpgMarsh Fritillary Euphydryas aurinia larval web by Ciarán Byrne, on Flickr

    28979824703_6b6ffaa8c9_c.jpgMarsh Fritillary Euphydryas aurinia larval web by Ciarán Byrne, on Flickr


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 506 ✭✭✭Hotei


    A female Sparrowhawk paid a visit yesterday morning

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 553 ✭✭✭thyme


    Went out this morning to gather up some hazelnuts that are starting to fall and I wasn't the only one :D.
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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,324 ✭✭✭keps


    thyme wrote: »
    Went out this morning to gather up some hazelnuts that are starting to fall and I wasn't the only one :D.
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    Super:)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 547 ✭✭✭Nightforce 65X55


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 547 ✭✭✭Nightforce 65X55


    ThunderCat wrote: »
    Great photos of the Peregrine, Nightforce. I know you often take photos down by the malahide estuary based on photos you've posted before so I wonder if the Peregrine I saw dive bombing starlings earlier today above the skies of Balheary was the same one as in this pic.

    It could have been the bird ok. Where I saw this one was only a couple of miles from broadmeadows....


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