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  • #32
    Del.Monte
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,363 ✭✭✭✭Del.Monte


    Sand Martins confirmed here (Enniscorthy) today.

    ****



  • #33
    OpenYourEyes
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    Finally had my first Swallow yesterday (second today) and first Chiffchaff today, in north Wicklow!


  • #34
    OldRio
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    Our first swallow arrived on Wednesday. Flying and chatting about the farm patiently waiting for its friends.
    Today we heard our first cuckoo. In the distance but as distinctive as ever.
    Every year for about the last 10 these new arrivals have been a day or two apart.
    Willow warblers have also arrived.
    Co. Leitrim.


  • #35
    Fakediamond
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    My swallows arrived this week, happy days :)

    Co. Carlow


  • #36
    Half-cocked
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    A Wheatear on Sutton beach today.


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  • #37
    fryup
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    when will we hear the cuckoo?


  • #38
    Rows Grower
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    fryup wrote: »
    when will we hear the cuckoo?

    Heard one today here in the hills of south Kerry.

    "Very soon we are going to Mars. You wouldn't have been going to Mars if my opponent won, that I can tell you. You wouldn't even be thinking about it."

    Donald Trump, March 13th 2018.



  • #39
    fryup
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,067 ✭✭✭✭fryup


    is it too late to put up a bird box?


  • #40
    downwesht
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 526 ✭✭✭downwesht


    Swallows in Skibbereen today!


  • #41
    Dial Hard
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 15,612 ✭✭✭✭Dial Hard


    Hi Folks

    Delighted to discover we have a robins' nest in the garden. Haven't gone near the nest, it's well hidden under a very lush growth of creeper overhanging the juncture of two walls, just wondering if there's anything I can do to give the chicks (sounds like there's at least four of them in there) the best chance, other than keeping next door's cat at bay? Both parents are being super attentive.

    Thanks!


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  • #42
    Macdarack
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    I saw a Hoopoe 2 days ago for the first time ever. He was been chased by a greyback crow, at first I thought it was a cuckoo until it flew very close to me. What a bird.


  • #43
    Ted_YNWA
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    fryup wrote:
    when will we hear the cuckoo?

    Heard one in Wexford on Sunday.


  • #44
    OldRio
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    Heard the Grasshopper Warbler over the last few days.


  • #45
    Bella Bee
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7 ✭Bella Bee


    Heard a cuckoo in Limerick this morning.


  • #46
    Dial Hard
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    Dial Hard wrote: »
    Hi Folks

    Delighted to discover we have a robins' nest in the garden. Haven't gone near the nest, it's well hidden under a very lush growth of creeper overhanging the juncture of two walls, just wondering if there's anything I can do to give the chicks (sounds like there's at least four of them in there) the best chance, other than keeping next door's cat at bay? Both parents are being super attentive.

    Thanks!

    I haven't seen the parents at all since Tuesday. I'm devastated :(


  • #47
    Del.Monte
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    Dial Hard wrote: »
    I haven't seen the parents at all since Tuesday. I'm devastated :(


    Perhaps the chicks have fledged?

    ****



  • #48
    Dial Hard
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    Del.Monte wrote: »
    Perhaps the chicks have fledged?

    I'd love to think that's it but I'm sure I would have seen them. Also, would the parents abandon the nest immediately afterwards?


  • #49
    OpenYourEyes
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    Dial Hard wrote: »
    I'd love to think that's it but I'm sure I would have seen them. Also, would the parents abandon the nest immediately afterwards?

    Chicks are usually in the nest for around two weeks - depends on how old/well grown they were when you found the nest? You would probably expect to see fledglings around the garden alright though...


  • #50
    Dial Hard
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    Dial Hard wrote: »
    I haven't seen the parents at all since Tuesday. I'm devastated :(

    Moved home yesterday after 5 months in my family home for lockdown and my robins are back. Absolutely delighted!


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