Some pictures I took recently

NEW WAVE · 27-06-2018 10:17PM

Dipper

Tiercel Dave · 28-06-2018 03:49PM

Blue Eyed Grass, East Galway.....

Tiercel Dave · 29-06-2018 12:16AM

Peacock Caterpillars feasting on Nettles.....

New Home · 29-06-2018 12:23AM

Tiercel Dave wrote: »

Blue Eyed Grass, East Galway.....

Sisyrinchium?

Tiercel Dave · 29-06-2018 10:08AM

New Home wrote: »

Sisyrinchium?

Sisyrinchium bermudiana.....

Alun · 29-06-2018 11:01AM

Saw a huge number of these flowering on the top of Kippure a few weeks back. Any idea what they were?

Ulmus · 29-06-2018 02:24PM

Cuckoo flower, Lady's Smock http://www.wildflowersofireland.net/plant_detail.php?id_flower=81

Alun · 29-06-2018 03:12PM

Ulmus wrote: »

Cuckoo flower, Lady's Smock http://www.wildflowersofireland.net/plant_detail.php?id_flower=81

Thanks, I was convinced it was some kind of Crane's Bill, but the leaves didn't match and looking more carefully it only has 4 petals and not 5!

Seems like an unusually high and exposed site though to find something that apparently "tends to favour wet habitats such as marshes and damp meadows."

NEW WAVE · 29-06-2018 09:45PM

Don’t know who was more surprised me or the duck

keps · 30-06-2018 02:08PM

Heron with trout

Swallowed

keps · 30-06-2018 07:37PM

I wonder how they got their name haha

Long Tailed Tit

LTT

gzoladz · 30-06-2018 08:16PM

Young peregrine

New Home · 30-06-2018 08:17PM

What's wrong with the long tailed tit's eyes? Is it a sign of avian flu?

keps · 30-06-2018 08:46PM

New Home wrote: »

What's wrong with the long tailed tit's eyes? Is it a sign of avian flu?

I think it's just that they are young birds?

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1 · 30-06-2018 08:47PM

New Home wrote: »

What's wrong with the long tailed tit's eyes? Is it a sign of avian flu?

Not a thing wrong. They are always ringed with red - looks swollen but it's the norm.

New Home · 30-06-2018 10:21PM

Fair enough, thanks - I had the impression they had a duller colour around the eyes. Time to get new glasses, so.

EDIT: Actually, could the red be a variation, like the different colours in the feathers? Most of the ones I'd seen before seemed to have tan/orange/beige/yellow ring around their eyes, as far as I can remember.

pegasus1 · 01-07-2018 12:55PM

Steady...Easy does it..
Taken this week on the Saltees

spookwoman · 01-07-2018 03:38PM

Off the camera trap in the garden. Heard a hedgehog in the garden a few nights ago so set up a feeding station. Had one or 2 again night before and again last night. I think lasts nights is a different one because it arrived earlier looked smaller and was more skittish. The one in this I think may be the regular as its about the same time it arrived the previous night, the other arrived at 1am. Now to find a way to stop the local cats from eating the food.

Hotei · 01-07-2018 04:56PM

A male Stonechat in Pollardstown fen this afternoon:

magicbastarder · 01-07-2018 06:22PM

spookwoman wrote: »

Now to find a way to stop the local cats from eating the food.

build a hedgehog box - or a box with an opening big enough for a hog to get into but not a cat.

keps · 01-07-2018 06:38PM

Upside down- Ltt

keps · 01-07-2018 07:49PM

Today -along the Dodder

Greenfinch

spookwoman · 02-07-2018 03:19AM

Was right there are 2. Arrived early tonight and was on cat duty till they fed. Will have to sort out a box for them

keps · 02-07-2018 07:42PM

In flight- today - Dodder

Grey Heron

Cormorant

The Hill Billy · 03-07-2018 08:39PM

Our Hummingbird Hawk-moth is back. Feeding on the lavender in the evening sunshine. He never came last year. (Yeah, I know it is not the same one.

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tabby aspreme · 03-07-2018 08:44PM

This little guy taking refuge in the dogs water dish this morning

Hotei · 03-07-2018 09:02PM

The Hill Billy wrote: »

Our Hummingbird Hawk-moth is back. Feeding on the lavender in the evening sunshine. He never came last year. (Yeah, I know it is not the same one. )

That doesn't look like a Hummingbird Hawk-moth to me.
It looks more like a Silver Y moth, but I could be wrong.

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1 · 03-07-2018 09:08PM

Hotei wrote: »

That doesn't look like a Hummingbird Hawk-moth to me.
It looks more like a Silver Y moth, but I could be wrong.

You are correct.

NEW WAVE · 03-07-2018 09:33PM

Pair of mute swans

The Hill Billy · 03-07-2018 10:24PM

Hotei wrote: »

That doesn't look like a Hummingbird Hawk-moth to me.
It looks more like a Silver Y moth, but I could be wrong.

Jazlyn Incalculable Yo-yo wrote: »

You are correct.

Thanks folks! We did think that the wing shape & coloration were slightly different. Also a bit smaller than the ones we have had in the garden before.

Its flight is very similar though. Good to know for future reference.

Some pictures I took recently

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