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Some pictures I took recently

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


    Hotei, absolutely brilliant catch.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 506 ✭✭✭Hotei


    Hotei, absolutely brilliant catch.
    Thank you, Jazlyn Incalculable Yo-yo.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 506 ✭✭✭Hotei


    Green Hairstreak foraging on Oxeye Daisy:

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


    @hotie

    Wow - you are certainly in top form:)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 506 ✭✭✭Hotei


    keps wrote: »
    @hotie

    Wow - you are certainly in top form:)

    Thanks a million, keps! :)


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,211 ✭✭✭gzoladz


    Tongues...

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  • Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 79,181 Mod ✭✭✭✭New Home


    gzoladz wrote: »
    Tongues...

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    Straight out of the fables of Aesop or Jean de la Fontaine! :)


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




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 798 ✭✭✭Tiercel Dave


    Cuttlebone, Spanish Point, Co. Clare.....

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,878 ✭✭✭whyulittle


    Delighted to finally spot my first Marsh Fritillary today, at Crosswood Bog. I've been looking out for them for the last few years at different spots.

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


    whyulittle wrote: »
    Delighted to finally spot my first Marsh Fritillary today, at Crosswood Bog. I've been looking out for them for the last few years at different spots.

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    Fantastic!


    Did u manage to get a pic? It doesn't appear on my screen?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,878 ✭✭✭whyulittle


    Strange, it's there alright. It even shows up in your quoted reply. :)

    http://mylocalwildlife.net/?p=3173


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


    Yeah- it's strange ok


    I saw the link for second - but now it's gone

    now got it on that last link... well done great work


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


    Today -along the Dodder bank




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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,211 ✭✭✭gzoladz


    Is this a common (or holly) blue?

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




  • Closed Accounts Posts: 506 ✭✭✭Hotei


    gzoladz wrote: »
    Is this a common (or holly) blue?

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    A Common Blue nectaring on Bird's Foot Trefoil.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 506 ✭✭✭Hotei


    Jackdaw fledgling

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    Pied Wagtail fledglings

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    Spotted Flycatcher
    A pair of Spotted Flycatchers return each year to nest in Virginia Creeper growing above the door of the local village pub. It was late in the evening and getting a wee bit dark, so it's a rather grainy shot.

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    Meadow Pipit on the Curragh

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


    Thanks to F.R .. I think the wildflower is:

    Red Valerian/Centranthus ruber





    42741439421_221ab9aa72_b.jpgComing in to land


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


    This fellah perched on the balcony railing for a while today .. before heading in for some tasty sunflower seeds

    Is it a young Bullfinch??

    Photo taken through glass- so not great


    27873209347_253e68b348_b.jpgJuvenile Bullfinch ?


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 506 ✭✭✭Hotei


    keps wrote: »
    This fellah perched on the balcony railing for a while today .. before heading in for some tasty sunflower seeds

    Is it a young Bullfinch??

    Photo taken through glass- so not great


    27873209347_253e68b348_b.jpgJuvenile Bullfinch ?

    Lovely shot! It looks like a Female Bullfinch. A juvenile Bullfinch wouldn't have a black cap yet as far as I'm aware.


  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Sports Moderators, Paid Member Posts: 53,881 CMod ✭✭✭✭magicbastarder


    keps wrote: »
    Photo taken through glass- so not great
    ah here, that's lovely and crisp!


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


    Grey Heron- Dodder




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    Last pic rotated


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 506 ✭✭✭Hotei


    keps wrote: »
    Grey Heron- Dodder



    42040952444_e3543b0cf2_b.jpgReflection

    Last pic rotated

    This shot is brilliant keps! Love the reflection.


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


    All is quite?




    Just another shot of that Bullfinch from Tuesday last




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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,181 ✭✭✭Lady Haywire


    I don't post here much, just follow in awe of the pics. But thought this was nice a few weeks ago. Not crisp as out a window unfortunately.

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,166 ✭✭✭TopTec


    I think they are super, Lady Haywire.... Nice catch.


    TT


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


    Hooded Crow




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  • Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 79,181 Mod ✭✭✭✭New Home


    ^^^

    "There, through the broken branches, go
    The ravens of unresting thought;
    Flying, crying, to and fro,
    Cruel claw and hungry throat,
    Or else they stand and sniff the wind,
    And shake their ragged wings; alas!
    Thy tender eyes grow all unkind:
    Gaze no more in the bitter glass."

    Excerpt from "The Two Trees", W. B. Yeats

    :)


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


    @New Home


    Tread softly:)


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