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Some pictures I took recently

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    #9632
    New Home
    Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 76,642 Mod ✭✭✭✭New Home


    It almost looks like a kookaburra...


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    #9633
    OwlEye
    Registered Users Posts: 107 ✭✭OwlEye


    Yep, Blue Winged Kookaburras,usually found in New Guinea and Northern Australia. Not mine unfortunately, I just hand rear them for a local breeder.


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    #9634
    keps
    Registered Users Posts: 9,324 ✭✭✭keps


    The kingfisher is so 'sensitive' to sound or movement.

    Once again, as I slowly raised the camera (60 or 70 feet away)- he took off

    Anyway, always nice to see one.


    43357036575_db58d2ae3e_b.jpgkingfisher


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    #9635
    redape99
    Registered Users Posts: 256 ✭✭redape99


    Was out in Fota Wildlife Park yesterday and noticed some swallows amongst the giraffe and zebra... spent a while trying to photograph them from the new "savannah" viewing platform they've built there and when I processed them I noticed that there were a lot of "fails" where the fly seems to get away!

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    #9636
    New Home
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    Those are amazing! :)


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    #9637
    keps
    Registered Users Posts: 9,324 ✭✭✭keps


    As the legs appear dark,I'm guessing this is a chiffchaff and not a willow warbler.




    42469740620_0c1153d2a7_b.jpgChiffchaff


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    #9638
    redape99
    Registered Users Posts: 256 ✭✭redape99


    Thanks New Home!


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    #9639
    keps
    Registered Users Posts: 9,324 ✭✭✭keps


    Young Mallard


    43382464995_8a52325347_b.jpgDodder pic


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    #9640
    iamtony
    Registered Users Posts: 3,801 ✭✭✭iamtony


    https://photos.app.goo.gl/47qWPNrgKgYoSbgy6

    Amazing photos lads, what's going on with this Robin is it just young or is their somehing else weird about it?
    I really need a real camera.


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    #9641
    Lady Haywire
    Registered Users Posts: 5,181 ✭✭✭Lady Haywire


    iamtony wrote: »
    https://photos.app.goo.gl/47qWPNrgKgYoSbgy6

    Amazing photos lads, what's going on with this Robin is it just young or is their somehing else weird about it?
    I really need a real camera.

    Yep, just a young robin! They only get their orange breast after a few months so they can look a bit patchy for a while.


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    #9642
    NEW WAVE
    Registered Users Posts: 770 ✭✭✭NEW WAVE


    Swan and cygnet
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    Cygnet still surviving and getting bigger.


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    #9643
    iamtony
    Registered Users Posts: 3,801 ✭✭✭iamtony


    Lady Haywire wrote: »
    Yep, just a young robin! They only get their orange breast after a few months so they can look a bit patchy for a while.

    Great thanks, looked like a weird hybrid or something. Hopefully it's the young of the Robin that's been hangin around the last few years.


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    #9644
    iamtony
    Registered Users Posts: 3,801 ✭✭✭iamtony


    NEW WAVE wrote: »
    Swan and cygnet
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    Cygnet still surviving and getting bigger.

    That photo belongs on the apple TV screen saver roll. Well done its beautiful, as well as some of the above.


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    #9645
    NEW WAVE
    Registered Users Posts: 770 ✭✭✭NEW WAVE


    Thanks iamtony. Lots of great shots from other posters here. I'm still learning.


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    #9646
    NEW WAVE
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    Young Moorhen
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    #9647
    keps
    Registered Users Posts: 9,324 ✭✭✭keps


    Spotted this guy on Dunmoran Strand Sligo today


    Help with id would be appreciated ( thought it might be a sandpiper????)


    BTW Like the way the lens caught the light on the rocks in the background:)


    43442714915_24247469b7_b.jpgDunmoran


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    Rock pippit
    also there

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    Pied Wagtail


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    #9648
    NEW WAVE
    Registered Users Posts: 770 ✭✭✭NEW WAVE


    I posted a photograph of the common sandpiper on July 27 while my shot was at least 55 meters away and yours has more detail I would say its the same.
    However I'm not the expert. Great shot by the way.


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    #9649
    Morrisseeee
    Registered Users Posts: 5,146 ✭✭✭Morrisseeee


    So this is where all the birdies hang out ;) Here's a few of my recent ones, actually I'm just getting into bird photography, you have to be patient/lucky ! The Robin's are great, natural posers :D

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    #9650
    keps
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    Good to see you found us Morrisseeee:)


    And your able to reply here also:pac::pac:

    Great pics Btw


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    #9651
    keps
    Registered Users Posts: 9,324 ✭✭✭keps


    44369706541_a438b2160b_b.jpg
    Swallows


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    #9652
    keps
    Registered Users Posts: 9,324 ✭✭✭keps


    I hope that as discussed yesterday - that this is a Sandpiper?


    Today


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    Sandpiper


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    #9653
    OwlEye
    Registered Users Posts: 107 ✭✭OwlEye


    That looks like it might be a juvenile Ringed Plover.


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    #9654
    keps
    Registered Users Posts: 9,324 ✭✭✭keps


    OwlEye wrote: »
    That looks like it might be a juvenile Ringed Plover.

    Ohh of course you are right -silly me - even had this one from yesterday to show me the light

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    Ringed Plover

    Still think there was a Sandpiper there - I take too many pics and not good enough at ID


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    #9655
    NEW WAVE
    Registered Users Posts: 770 ✭✭✭NEW WAVE


    Juvenile Little Grebe
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    #9656
    OpenYourEyes
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    NEW WAVE wrote: »
    Baby Moorhen

    Juvenile Little Grebe!


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    #9657
    NEW WAVE
    Registered Users Posts: 770 ✭✭✭NEW WAVE


    OpenYourEyes

    My mistake. I associated the little Grebe with a group of moorhens that were within a couple yards of the chics. I did look it up but all I can say is

    "I should have gone to Specsavers" :D
    Once again thanks.


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    #9658
    keps
    Registered Users Posts: 9,324 ✭✭✭keps


    Great Black-Winged Gull




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    #9659
    dball
    Registered Users Posts: 1,850 ✭✭✭dball


    44401417961_3ddd1a963e_c.jpgIMG_4759 by Zed Llab, on Flickr


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    #9660
    keps
    Registered Users Posts: 9,324 ✭✭✭keps


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    grey heron


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    #9661
    Meteorite58
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 11,906 Mod ✭✭✭✭Meteorite58


    What a beautiful plumage , lovely shot keps.


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