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    #2042
    gzoladz
    Registered Users Posts: 2,196 ✭✭✭gzoladz


    Breaking news, the female from the site near my place was seating in her nest this morning, I presume she has or is in process of laying.

    The male was perching about 5 meters away.

    The place get very leafy over the last few days, what is a good thing. The nest is hardly visible from the road now.


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    #2043
    fryup
    Registered Users Posts: 18,069 ✭✭✭✭fryup


    any idea what bird egg this is...

    egg.jpg


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    #2044
    magicbastarder
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    blackbird egg, possibly. any indication of size?


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    #2045
    Eddie B
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    Might be Song Trush


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    #2046
    fryup
    Registered Users Posts: 18,069 ✭✭✭✭fryup


    magicbastarder wrote: »
    blackbird egg, possibly. any indication of size?

    cadbury creme egg size (seriously)


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    #2047
    Tiercel Dave
    Registered Users Posts: 797 ✭✭✭Tiercel Dave


    magicbastarder wrote: »
    blackbird egg, possibly. any indication of size?
    Blackbird has brown specks/blotches, I think Eddie is right with Song Thrush.....


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    #2048
    Tiercel Dave
    Registered Users Posts: 797 ✭✭✭Tiercel Dave


    fryup wrote: »
    cadbury creme egg size (seriously)

    I thought Song Thrush but if it's that big I'd go for Jackdaw.....


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    #2049
    fryup
    Registered Users Posts: 18,069 ✭✭✭✭fryup


    that big?? creme eggs are small

    yes i concur on song thrush


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    #2050
    Tiercel Dave
    Registered Users Posts: 797 ✭✭✭Tiercel Dave


    fryup wrote: »
    that big?? creme eggs are small

    yes i concur on song thrush

    Our 'birds' must lay the bigger size in the west.....

    231712472.jpeg


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    #2051
    fryup
    Registered Users Posts: 18,069 ✭✭✭✭fryup


    ^^ Not Actual Size


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    #2052
    magicbastarder
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 48,389 CMod ✭✭✭✭magicbastarder


    this is both simple and brilliant:

    https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/may/01/not-just-weeds-how-rebel-botanists-are-using-graffiti-to-name-forgotten-flora-aoe


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    #2053
    Sephiroth_dude
    Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 80,010 Mod ✭✭✭✭Sephiroth_dude


    I saw the cutest little bird this morning in one of my mam's hedges, it was black and white on its head with a red forehead, white underbelly with tints of brown, any ideas what it was? it was so tiny, a bit bigger than a robin though.


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    #2054
    black forest
    Registered Users Posts: 359 ✭✭black forest


    Might be an european goldfinch.🤔😉

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_goldfinch


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    #2055
    Sephiroth_dude
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    black forest wrote: »
    Might be an european goldfinch.🤔😉

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_goldfinch

    Very similar BF !


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    #2056
    [Deleted User]
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    Will starlings be fledging soon does anyone know?

    I’m an animal lover but there’s a large clutch of starlings in the eaves of an empty house next door and I’m nearing the end of my tether being woken up by their incessant screeching and scraping on the gutters for weeks now!


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    #2057
    magicbastarder
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    three weeks from hatching to fledging is normal, i think.


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    #2058
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    Ah yeah it’s been about that...any day now hopefully


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    #2059
    The Tetrarch
    Registered Users Posts: 2,092 ✭✭✭The Tetrarch


    My two sunflower hearts feeders were empty when I looked about an hour ago. They are suspended in a metal cage a couple of metres from my little conservatory.
    I filled the feeders, then spent half an hour watering my cactus plants.
    As I was finishing I saw a bullfinch on the ground. A few seconds later there were two bullfinches in the cage munching on the seeds.
    I seldom see bullfinches here in Blackrock, Dublin. This is I think my third sighting in about five years.
    It made my day. :)


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    #2060
    Sephiroth_dude
    Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 80,010 Mod ✭✭✭✭Sephiroth_dude


    Can anyone identify the bird below? Took it today in the park, first time I pass them they were hiding in the bush and then with my next passing in the river.

    IMG20200514111452.jpg


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    #2061
    Del.Monte
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    Grey Heron/Heron, or crane in the vernacular in some parts of the country.

    ****



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    #2062
    Sephiroth_dude
    Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 80,010 Mod ✭✭✭✭Sephiroth_dude


    I saw what I think was a Gold Crest down the park today, a tiny little fella with a piece of grass in its mouth and it hoping along the ground :3.


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    #2063
    New Home
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    There was a goldcrest rummaging through leaves half a step away from me on the footpath, this would have been around February. He clearly saw me, but kept working like mad. I was there for ages watching him (like, 10 good minutes with him less than a metre away from me). He looked at me from time to time but wasn't worried, he seemed to say to me, "Look here woman, you can watch me but don't disturb me, I've work to do here, can't you see?". I went home, got back out to where he was (again, not a bother on him) and scattered some crumbled dried mealworms near him. He seemed to appreciate the gesture. :D

    All was ok until some woman with big white runners came stomping by, making a racket, to see what I was looking at. :rolleyes:


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    #2064
    Sephiroth_dude
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    This little fella got really close to me as well , we were practically walking side by side for a second , I couldn't get over how small they were :3


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    #2065
    NEW WAVE
    Registered Users Posts: 770 ✭✭✭NEW WAVE


    I posted photographs of the goldcrest on "Some nature pictures I took recently" section yesterday.The golldcrest paid a visit to our fish pond after nine on Saturday last and again at the same time last night. Will post later.


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    #2066
    New Home
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    NEW WAVE wrote: »
    I posted photographs of the goldcrest on "Some nature pictures I took recently" section yesterday.The golldcrest paid a visit to our fish pond after nine on Saturday last and again at the same time last night. Will post later.

    I saw that, my jaw dropped and I kept saying "Wow!" to myself over and over again (well, the cat was here, so I can pretend I was talking to him).

    I was very envious of that shot and of the birdie, but also of that "waterfall". :)


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    #2067
    fryup
    Registered Users Posts: 18,069 ✭✭✭✭fryup


    there was a murder on my front drive this morning...

    carcuss.jpg

    who's the deceased? and who's the suspect?


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    #2068
    New Home
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    Deceased: magpie
    Culprit: Peregrine? Buzzard?


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    #2069
    Tiercel Dave
    Registered Users Posts: 797 ✭✭✭Tiercel Dave


    fryup wrote: »
    there was a murder on my front drive this morning...
    who's the deceased? and who's the suspect?

    It's a young Magpie so there are any number of suspects, a cat would be high on the list.....


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    #2070
    fryup
    Registered Users Posts: 18,069 ✭✭✭✭fryup


    the neighbour's cat was arrested this morning and taken in for questioning, she denies all charges


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    #2071
    gzoladz
    Registered Users Posts: 2,196 ✭✭✭gzoladz


    Small update on my 2 pairs of allegedly breeding sparrowhawks...the D4.1 pair has gone expectedly very quite since incubation started. This month I have only seen one bird once, last week, arriving into the nest, but given that this is now very covered and that the action was extremely fast I am not sure if it was the m or f, although I suspect the female. All going well eggs would hatch the first week of June.

    For the D4.2 pair, I got the male nearly everytime I went to check (every 2 or 3 days) in the same tree until last week, and the female once last week in the same location with catch. She flew into the tree where I suspect a nest is located, but I have never seen it. For the last week, I have not seen or heard either m&f, so they may well be on eggs or moved on.


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