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Some pictures I took recently

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  • #9512
    The Hill Billy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,851 ✭✭✭✭The Hill Billy


    BTW - The pics in this thread are amazing! Must pop in more often.


  • #9513
    keps
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,324 ✭✭✭keps


    28331985227_ff1cda1b43_b.jpgI Spy With My Little Eye


  • #9514
    NEW WAVE
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 770 ✭✭✭NEW WAVE


    uukTXAd.jpg


  • #9515
    keps
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,324 ✭✭✭keps


    Egret near The Dropping Well Pub in Milltown today




    42503048494_89e8843445_b.jpgEgret



    PS - thirsty work taking photos in this heat:)


    42503571824_72a048129f_b.jpgegret1


  • #9516
    AhHaor
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 242 ✭✭AhHaor


    Saw the same one up some trees a bit further up towards rathgar.

    42512231144_3fda38bef8_b.jpgHOI_0304.NEF by Alan, on Flickr
    keps wrote: »
    Egret near The Dropping Well Pub in Milltown today




    42503048494_89e8843445_b.jpgEgret



    PS - thirsty work taking photos in this heat:)


    42503571824_72a048129f_b.jpgegret1


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  • #9517
    keps
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,324 ✭✭✭keps


    Great to see a cormorant back in Milltown
    They have been missing for 4/5 months
    Probably headed for sea- local fishermen tell me the fish stock in the area was decimated by the floods that followed the snow falls/and hurricane


    43241480991_e7028cdd1e_b.jpgCormorant


    ( PS C'mon Belgium :))


  • #9518
    Hotei
    Closed Accounts Posts: 506 ✭✭✭Hotei


    keps wrote: »
    Great to see a cormorant back in Milltown
    They have been missing for 4/5 months
    Probably headed for sea- local fishermen tell me the fish stock in the area was decimated by the floods that followed the snow falls/and hurricane


    43241480991_e7028cdd1e_b.jpgCormorant


    ( PS C'mon Belgium :))

    That's a super shot, keps. In all the years I've been photographing wildlife, I've never managed to get a shot of a Cormorant.
    By the way, I drew Belgium in our workplace pool, so yeah, C'mon Belgium!! :)


  • #9519
    keps
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,324 ✭✭✭keps


    42534263454_114a642451_b.jpgegret


  • #9520
    NEW WAVE
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 770 ✭✭✭NEW WAVE


    u1OrtLP.jpg


  • #9521
    keps
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,324 ✭✭✭keps


    Will add few more Egret pics to this particular post tomorrow -headin' for bed as I'm tired after playing two full games and extra time and penalties in the second:rolleyes:


    not to mention the booze:eek:



    42360519245_c7c40dcae1_b.jpgEgret on Dodder

    41454966040_345f47e0f3_b.jpgEgret fishing


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  • #9522
    keps
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,324 ✭✭✭keps


    43233478652_d4b44c8fe4_b.jpgButterfly


  • #9523
    Hotei
    Closed Accounts Posts: 506 ✭✭✭Hotei


    keps wrote: »
    43233478652_d4b44c8fe4_b.jpgButterfly

    Nice find, keps! It's a Dark Green Fritillary (Fritileán Dúghlas).

    http://www.irishbutterflies.com/dark_green_fritillary_butterfly_of_ireland.html


  • #9524
    keps
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,324 ✭✭✭keps


    Took this pic a good bit earlier today and a mile away - but could it be the same?




    41475286370_bed95f0852_b.jpg


  • #9525
    New Home
    Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 79,170 Mod ✭✭✭✭New Home


    The wings look different to me. Stunning, though, both of them! :)


  • #9526
    Hotei
    Closed Accounts Posts: 506 ✭✭✭Hotei


    keps wrote: »
    Took this pic a good bit earlier today and a mile away - but could it be the same?




    41475286370_bed95f0852_b.jpg

    Better again, keps! That's a Comma. I've never seen one myself. They've started to migrate in the last decade or so from Britain and the continent into the southern half of this country.


  • #9527
    keps
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,324 ✭✭✭keps


    Both pics taken on banks of Dodder- Milltown


  • #9528
    keps
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,324 ✭✭✭keps


    Thanks indeed Hotei for that information- you are a font of knowledge :)

    One more of the Fritileán Dúghlas taken same day( Saturday)


    43235948502_91a6cfe5eb_b.jpgFritileán Dúghlas


  • #9529
    keps
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,324 ✭✭✭keps


    Today -Dodder




    43258553512_361d04dc9c_b.jpgGrey Heron - Dodder


  • #9530
    NEW WAVE
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 770 ✭✭✭NEW WAVE


    NtkC9xO.jpg
    MINK

    Was trying to photograph trout in the river with a polarising filter on lens when this guy passed by
    Not sure what is in its mouth might be a rat. Trout did not bite :D


  • #9531
    keps
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,324 ✭✭✭keps


    Great pic


    But what horrible creatures those mink are:mad:


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  • #9532
    keps
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,324 ✭✭✭keps


    Today on the Dodder- Milltown




    42607026804_eeef59c434_b.jpgEgret in Flight


  • #9533
    Capercaillie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,732 ✭✭✭Capercaillie


    NEW WAVE wrote: »
    NtkC9xO.jpg
    MINK

    Was trying to photograph trout in the river with a polarising filter on lens when this guy passed by
    Not sure what is in its mouth might be a rat. Trout did not bite :D

    Get the mink trap out!!!


  • #9534
    gzoladz
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,211 ✭✭✭gzoladz


    I finally managed to get a record shot of a Green Woodpecker (Iberian race, in this case). Also Great Spotted Woodpecker, Little Owl and Hoopoe. Galicia, Spain.

    42600938654_4c2e26bb5a_b.jpg

    43319018091_f9a249cb4f_b.jpg

    41509192620_f72268ba0b_b.jpg

    28449867937_58c5c3310e_b.jpg


  • #9535
    NEW WAVE
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 770 ✭✭✭NEW WAVE


    zyBLQMi.jpg

    Buzzard


  • #9536
    keps
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,324 ✭✭✭keps


    Hope the pink and red don't clash:eek:

    Packhorse Bridge Milltown today

    28518378437_3f1c1962d7_b.jpgRobin

    Seconds after the Robin flew away this Dunnock landed on the same branch

    42483972985_eb1b71a8b2_b.jpgDunnock


  • #9537
    OpenYourEyes
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 3,081 Mod ✭✭✭✭OpenYourEyes


    29530957938_6b8195bbb5_b.jpg
    Roseate Tern with two Sprats by Brian, on Flickr

    A Roseate Tern with two big sprats in its bill - it's uncommon to see them with more than one fish at a time (less than 1% of instances). It looks to be a good year food-wise for the Terns on the east coast. (picture taken under NPWS license)


  • #9538
    TedR
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 439 ✭✭TedR


    He's behind you !

    29531634888_eee1a05a00_z.jpgIMG_2584 by Eamonn Ryan, on Flickr


  • #9539
    TedR
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 439 ✭✭TedR


    Hes behind you number 2!
    cheeky starling this time

    29531635118_889cc7b818_z.jpgIMG_2558 by Eamonn Ryan, on Flickr


  • #9540
    gzoladz
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,211 ✭✭✭gzoladz


    Some sort of damselfly blue feeding

    43404888131_888081d2f7_b.jpg


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  • #9541
    Hotei
    Closed Accounts Posts: 506 ✭✭✭Hotei


    gzoladz wrote: »
    Some sort of damselfly blue feeding

    43404888131_888081d2f7_b.jpg

    A male Variable Damselfly (Coenagrion pulchellum).The black U-shaped mark on segment 2 is usually joined to the black ring below creating a wine glass shape.


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