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Some Nature Pictures I Took Recently - II (Seasonal Photos)

OpenYourEyes

Mod Note: Hi Everyone, the first "Some Pictures I Took Recently" thread was a phenomenal success, running for a bit over 10 years with 10,000 posts and featuring some fantastic photos and amazing species. It was no doubt the way many people got 'hooked' into the Nature & Birdwatching forum over the years, and the Boards.ie social media accounts regularly shared photos from the thread.

Congratulations to everyone who contributed, and I have no doubt it's successor will be similarly valuable!

The Original thread is here.

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sumsar

I went for a walk in my local park today and took these photos along the route, two appear to me to be House Sparrows (one of each sex?) based on my research, would love if someone could confirm.

Since I started photographing birds recently I've been keeping track of the birds I identify so I'm trying to improve my identification skills too.

Little Grebe

House Sparrow 1

House Sparrow 2

Herring Gull & Moorhen

Robin

Moorhen

Mallard

Tiercel Dave

House Sparrow 1 is a Reed Bunting, I wouldn't be confident enough to identify '2' but I'd imagine it's a female.....

gzoladz

Cyrano, this morning at his favourite branch...and a little bit later, about 1.5km further South...Cyrana?

IMG-20200413_073751 by Gustavo, on Flickr

IMG-20200413_090649 (1) by Gustavo, on Flickr

gzoladz

Surprising turn of events...I checked the roosting site this afternoon, and there was a male who was NOT Cyrano (check his much smaller bill) and a female. I wondered if maybe Cyrano was the female but if that is the case, it is not the same bird as Cyrano has quite a bit of orange and this female has no orange at all.

Both birds were interacting quite a lot and they checked a half built nest in the same site. The female sat in the nest for about 15 minutes and her head was occasionally visible from the other side of road. I was actually surprised they were checking that nest as it looked too exposed to me.

DSCN2115-01 by Gustavo, on Flickr

DSCN2026-01 by Gustavo, on Flickr

sumsar

Today's photos, took a short walk in the park today but was in a rush so I'm quite happy with the shots I got as time was ticking when I got them ha.

This was my first time spotting a male Bullfinch in person since I started birding and my god they are beautiful in person.

Dunnock

Eurasian Bullfinch

Robin

Tony H

Saw this little fellow today ,wife took photo

Bsal

Wren enjoying the sun today

Jackdaw in yesterday's sunset

bkrangle

Sparrowhawk visiting my garden today realized that the solitary bee hotel was a good lookout point

gzoladz

Brief update on Christian and Roxanne...Cyrano also hangs around the same roosting site but not interfering.

IMG-20200419_091044 by Gustavo, on Flickr

IMG-20200419_091039 by Gustavo, on Flickr

IMG-20200419_090326 by Gustavo, on Flickr

IMG-20200419_090345 by Gustavo, on Flickr

Muahahaha

This is Penny, a swan I meet most days on my walks. 6 eggs in total just laid last week so about 4 or 5 weeks before they hatch, I'll be keeping an eye on this one

Mod: <<snip>> Just a reminder that it's illegal to approach/disturb/photograph nests and nesting areas without a valid licence.

Rows Grower

Muahahaha wrote: »

This is Penny, a swan I meet most days on my walks. 6 eggs in total just laid last week so about 4 or 5 weeks before they hatch, I'll be keeping an eye on this one

Mod: <<snip>> Just a reminder that it's illegal to approach/disturb/photograph nests and nesting areas without a valid licence.

Apply for the licence Muahahha, you can do it online and I'm sure someone here will give you advice if you need any help.

It would be great to have a pictorial update.

New Home

Rows Grower wrote: »

Apply for the licence Muahahha, you can do it online and I'm sure someone here will give you advice if you need any help.

It would be great to have a pictorial update.

Mod: I'm afraid that, even at that, pictures of nests won't be allowed in this forum for the reasons outlined here:

https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=99720151&postcount=7428

Oh, and, Muahahaha? I know that despite the evil laugh you didn't mean any harm.

Rows Grower

New Home wrote: »

Mod: I'm afraid that, even at that, pictures of nests won't be allowed in this forum for the reasons outlined here:

https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=99720151&postcount=7428

Oh, and, Muahahaha? I know that despite the evil laugh you didn't mean any harm.

My mistake New Home, my apologies, I didn't mean to break rules or encourage Muahahha to.

New Home

Rows Grower wrote: »

My mistake New Home, my apologies, I didn't mean to break rules or encourage Muahahha to.

Oh no problem,

I just thought it was something that needed to be clarified (and back in the day, when I didn't know any better, I posted a pic of a nest, too...

NEW WAVE

Starling in flight

Bsal

Jackdaw

Starling

Robin with some cheese

New Home

Bsal wrote: »

Wren enjoying the sun today

Just wondering... isn't this a juvenile robin, rather than a wren?

Alun

New Home wrote: »

Just wondering... isn't this a juvenile robin, rather than a wren?

I was going to say the same when I first saw it, but I wasn't 100% sure.

DellyBelly

Definitely a Wren

Bsal

It was definitely a Wren I was watching him/her in the garden for a while before I took the picture.

NEW WAVE

Starling

Muahahaha

New Home wrote: »

Mod: I'm afraid that, even at that, pictures of nests won't be allowed in this forum for the reasons outlined here:

https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=99720151&postcount=7428

Oh, and, Muahahaha? I know that despite the evil laugh you didn't mean any harm.

oh right fair enough I didnt know it was illegal to view a swans nest. Just for clarity though I didnt go searching it out in the wild, their nest is on a man made lake that divides two golf fairways. The nest itself is actually only 2 metres from the lakes shoreline and only another 15 metres or so to the green for the 15th hole. Its on my regular walk so it came to me so to speak. Theres deer now too after coming down the mountains onto the golf course for easy feeding.

Im actually worried what might happen, the swans have only been living on this little lake for about three weeks and they set up the nest and laid the eggs about 10 days ago with eggs taking 30-35 days to hatch. But before they hatch it is likely golfers will be back and Im thinking that might make the swans abandon the nest altogether when there's balls flying over it and nearby. I hope that doesnt happen but when the swans made the nest golf had been cancelled, it'll probably be back before those eggs hatch.

NEW WAVE

Swallow in flight

New Home

My God, that is unbelievably gorgeous. How did you manage it?!

NEW WAVE

Patience and a bit of luck.Have the perched version of this photo on the boards photography random photo site.

See below.

NEW WAVE

Swallow

gzoladz

My local Sparrowhawks keep going on about their life...we are in egg laying timeframe, expectation is mounting!

IMG-20200423_072046 by Gustavo, on Flickr

IMG-20200421_111455 by Gustavo, on Flickr

IMG-20200421_072900 by Gustavo, on Flickr

IrishZeus

First time poster, long time lurker!

Been playing with a new lens the last 10 days or so and got a few pics. Apologies that some are slightly blurry - some were taken from hundreds of yards away and are as close as I can get in my current location.

Below are the ones I know and can (i think!) identify. Would appreciate corrections if they are needed:

1.

Cuckoo 3 by moroneyp, on Flickr

2.

Cuckoo 2 by moroneyp, on Flickr

3.

Cuckoo 1 by moroneyp, on Flickr

4.

Yellow Wagtail 2 by moroneyp, on Flickr

5.

Yellow Wagtail 1 by moroneyp, on Flickr

6.

Wagtail 1 by moroneyp, on Flickr

7.

Female Chaffinch 2 by moroneyp, on Flickr

8.

Female Chaffinch 3 by moroneyp, on Flickr

9.

Starling 4 by moroneyp, on Flickr

10.

Female Chaffinch 4 by moroneyp, on Flickr

11.

Magpie 1 by moroneyp, on Flickr

12.

Thrush 3 by moroneyp, on Flickr

13.

Cockerel 1 by moroneyp, on Flickr

14.

Blue Tit 1 by moroneyp, on Flickr

15.

Blue Tit 2 by moroneyp, on Flickr

IrishZeus

Continuing those I know:

16.

Great Tit 1 by moroneyp, on Flickr

17.

Great Tit 2 by moroneyp, on Flickr

18.

Wren 1 by moroneyp, on Flickr

19.

Chaffinch 1 by moroneyp, on Flickr

20.

Chaffinch 2 by moroneyp, on Flickr

21.

Female Chaffinch 1 by moroneyp, on Flickr

22.

Wren 2 by moroneyp, on Flickr

23.

Buzzard 1 by moroneyp, on Flickr

24.

Great Tit 3 by moroneyp, on Flickr

25.

Chaffinch 4 by moroneyp, on Flickr

26.

Mallard Duck 1 by moroneyp, on Flickr

27.

Identify 8 by moroneyp, on Flickr

28.

Starling 1 by moroneyp, on Flickr

29.

Starling 2 by moroneyp, on Flickr

30.

Robin 1 by moroneyp, on Flickr

IrishZeus

And final three I can identify...

31.

Chaffinch 5 by moroneyp, on Flickr

32.

Thrush 1 by moroneyp, on Flickr

33.

Thrush 2 by moroneyp, on Flickr

And ones I need help identifying:

34.

Identify 9 by moroneyp, on Flickr

35.

Identify 10 by moroneyp, on Flickr

36.

Identify 1 by moroneyp, on Flickr

37.

Identify 2 by moroneyp, on Flickr

38.

Identify 6 by moroneyp, on Flickr

For the three below, I was told locally (Donegal) that these are an Albatross, which I believe would be extraordinarily rare for Ireland. I'm thinking more of a Herring Gull. However these birds (there's a pair) are HUGE - 4ft wing span at least. Can anyone confirm?

39.

Identify 11 by moroneyp, on Flickr

40.

Identify 14 by moroneyp, on Flickr

41.

Identify 11 by moroneyp, on Flickr

And a few non-avian nature photos!

Lambs 1 by moroneyp, on Flickr

Lamb 2 by moroneyp, on Flickr

My audience when waiting for the birds to appear…

Audience 1 by moroneyp, on Flickr

Humble Bumble…

Bumble 1 by moroneyp, on Flickr [/url], on Flickr