Some pictures I took recently

Nightforce 65X55 · 19-03-2017 11:00AM

OpenYourEyes · 19-03-2017 11:32AM

Herring Gulls at Bray Harbour last week - one with a plastic bag and the other with a disposable plastic razor. The issue of plastic litter and pollution is a big one for marine birds and wildlife. They often ingest it, or get caught in it, resulting in death sooner or later. It usually occurs far out at sea where we don't notice it - this case was a little bit more blatant! There is ongoing research in GMIT looking at the extent of plastic ingestion by seabirds:
https://plastictides.wordpress.com/tag/gmit/
https://www.facebook.com/republicofirelandbeachedbirdsurvey/?fref=ts

Herring Gull with plastic litter by Brian, on Flickr

gzoladz · 19-03-2017 07:23PM

Kestrel

keps · 19-03-2017 10:10PM

Blue Tit

And for my next trick

keps · 20-03-2017 04:19PM

thrush

Isambard · 20-03-2017 09:54PM

Rock Pippett?

OpenYourEyes · 20-03-2017 10:40PM

Herring Gull by Brian, on Flickr

Herring Gull, giving out to the other gulls in the vicinity.

GBX · 21-03-2017 02:42PM

Reviewing old pics I found this. Not sure if it fits with the theme of this thread?

Deer in Phoenix Park by Gary Byrne, on Flickr

keps · 21-03-2017 04:11PM

This morning

grey wagtail

dunnock

Hotei · 21-03-2017 07:27PM

Hotei · 21-03-2017 08:42PM

keps · 22-03-2017 10:29PM

A bit wet and cold today for a softie like me to venture out:p

Another one of the Dunnock from yesterday

dunnock1

morana · 22-03-2017 10:57PM

The quality of pictures on this thread are outstanding. keep it up.

magicbastarder · 22-03-2017 11:01PM

was that taken with flash?

keps · 22-03-2017 11:04PM

magicbastarder wrote: »

was that taken with flash?

Nope

But strong sunlight from behind camera

Exif on all my photos is available by clicking on the image and viewing exif data on the relevant Flickr image.
That would include whether or not flash was used

flyingsnail · 23-03-2017 05:26PM

Robin has decided to move in and make a nest in the shed

2017_03_23_5453 , on Flickr

2017_03_23_5407 , on Flickr

keps · 24-03-2017 11:30AM

duck

flyingsnail · 24-03-2017 08:05PM

I am pretty sure with my ID on the second and third pictures but could somebody help out with the first, I am thinking Rose Finch but I am not sure.

2017_03_24_5615

Chaffinch

2017_03_24_5606

Great Tit

2017_03_24_5535

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1 · 24-03-2017 08:20PM

It's a female chaffinch

flyingsnail · 24-03-2017 08:26PM

Jazlyn Incalculable Yo-yo wrote: »

It's a female chaffinch

Thank You

keps · 24-03-2017 08:37PM

pied wagtail

splish · 25-03-2017 11:49AM

Wood Anemone Anemone nemorosa in some gorgeous light yesterday evening

fin12 · 25-03-2017 02:37PM

Cork City

gzoladz · 25-03-2017 05:59PM

Honey bees!

keps · 25-03-2017 09:38PM

today

wren

keps · 26-03-2017 07:33PM

A few from this morning... not sure about the last bird? And not a great pic. Could it be a Chiffchaff?

long tailed tit

kingfisher

grey wagtail

DSC_9586

Bsal · 26-03-2017 10:10PM

I'm thinking the last one could be a female Chaffinch.

Hotei · 26-03-2017 10:15PM

Bsal wrote: »

I'm thinking the last one could be a female Chaffinch.

I was thinking female Linnet, but could be wrong!

keps · 26-03-2017 10:33PM

Apologies lads - I should be at the stage where I can make a decision myself rather than throwing it out there

And if I had looked back on a photo two frames ahead -but from a longer distance( now zoomed in Bigly) I think I would have named it as the consensus does here

Female Chaffinch

Hotei · 26-03-2017 10:43PM

keps wrote: »

Apologies lads - I should be at the stage where I can make a decision myself rather than throwing it out there

And if I had looked back on a photo two frames ahead -but from a longer distance( now zoomed in Bigly) I think I would have named it as the consensus does here

Female Chaffinch

Maybe my eyes are deceiving me, but that doesn't look like a female Chaffinch. I still think it's a female Linnet. I can't see the white bars on the wings that a female Chaffinch would have. If you look at the buff coloured bar/band under the eye of this bird, that's something you see on female Linnets.

Some pictures I took recently

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