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Nature on your farm.

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  • #1052
    Lime Tree Farm
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,033 ✭✭✭Lime Tree Farm


    Birdnuts wrote: »
    Its quiet low pitched though - so some people may not pick it up straight away. If you do happen to get a bit of view of them, the white rump is distinctive.

    After reading your post I caught a glimpse of his distinctive breast outside the window. I grabbed the camera and he obligingly turned his bum for the shot. I'll post it later, I wish I had a steadier hand for focusing.

    I took pics of the female on Jan 14, but didn't notice them again until yesterday.


  • #1053
    Charolois 19
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 107 ✭✭Charolois 19


    547205.jpg
    Found this picture going through my phone on lunch, it was in a pile of timber I was putting into the trailer, I think it's a newt but could be wrong ?


  • #1054
    blue5000
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 12,854 Mod ✭✭✭✭blue5000


    Newt has 3 toes if I remember correctly.

    If the seat's wet, sit on yer hat, a cool head is better than a wet ar5e.



  • #1055
    Birdnuts
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,918 ✭✭✭Birdnuts


    Charolois 19 wrote: »
    547205.jpg
    Found this picture going through my phone on lunch, it was in a pile of timber I was putting into the trailer, I think it's a newt but could be wrong ?

    Newt for me given the spotted belly(which is a sign of breeding activitiy too)


  • #1056
    Charolois 19
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 107 ✭✭Charolois 19


    Birdnuts wrote: »
    Newt for me given the spotted belly(which is a sign of breeding activitiy too)

    They only have spots when breeding is it? I must look them up


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  • #1057
    SmartinMartin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,936 ✭✭✭SmartinMartin


    This sikka stag has been play-rutting with the yearlings for the last few days.

    IMG-9096.jpg


  • #1058
    Base price
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,656 ✭✭✭✭Base price


    Just saw this on the Nature and Bird Watching forum. Maybe we could give a hand and take part in survey/questionnaire - it's the national Hedgehog survey.
    https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=116953659&postcount=2229


  • #1059
    Dinzee Conlee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,164 ✭✭✭Dinzee Conlee


    Base price wrote: »
    Just saw this on the Nature and Bird Watching forum. Maybe we could give a hand and take part in survey/questionnaire - it's the national Hedgehog survey.
    https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=116953659&postcount=2229

    Done - cheers Base...

    Funny, hadn’t seen a hedgehog for years, and after seeing 2 the past few months... :)


  • #1060
    PMU
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    heard the cuckoo last thursday ;summers here


  • #1061
    blue5000
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    Thanks BP, do badgers prey on them? Haven't seen a hedgehog here since the hard winter of 2010 even though we are in Glas/REPS. I would have thought we would have a fairly good habitat for them.

    If the seat's wet, sit on yer hat, a cool head is better than a wet ar5e.



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  • #1062
    Base price
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    blue5000 wrote: »
    Thanks BP, do badgers prey on them? Haven't seen a hedgehog here since the hard winter of 2010 even though we are in Glas/REPS. I would have thought we would have a fairly good habitat for them.
    I didn't know but apparently they do.


  • #1063
    Gillespy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,538 ✭✭✭Gillespy


    Other than the odd unfortunate one on the road I haven't seen a hedgehog for ages. Badger footprints I see a lot however. Hares have really increased here. Up from two, last year there were six that I would always see running around together.


  • #1064
    kollegeknight
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    I just heard the Cuckoo for the first time this year


  • #1065
    Lime Tree Farm
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,033 ✭✭✭Lime Tree Farm


    Went for a walk at 9pm this evening and came across these gorgeous little creatures having a royal old time playing on the roadway. Let's hope life is kind to them.

    FOX CUBS.jpg

    FOXCUBS.jpg


  • #1066
    The Rabbi
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 346 ✭✭The Rabbi


    Lime Tree Farm wrote: »
    Went for a walk at 9pm this evening and came across these gorgeous little creatures having a royal old time playing on the roadway. Let's hope life is kind to them.

    FOX CUBS.jpg

    FOXCUBS.jpg
    I'm plagued with them here coming in around the sheds. They sh1t on the silage and in the meal troughs. When you go to check the calving pens at night the baskets run out frightening the cows and you never know where you will slip on the after birth they dragged out but didn't finish eating. What really makes me love them so much is finding this of a Sunday morning.


  • #1067
    leoch
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 971 ✭✭✭leoch


    We have 7 or 8 hsres about our place this last few years but haven't seen 1 this year yet do they hibernate or wat


  • #1068
    Lime Tree Farm
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,033 ✭✭✭Lime Tree Farm


    Took this on April 4th last, a young hare nibbling at dandelions. As they have poor eyesight they can come quiet near.

    Young Hare Apr21.png


  • #1069
    minerleague
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,171 ✭✭✭minerleague


    Lime Tree Farm wrote: »
    Went for a walk at 9pm this evening and came across these gorgeous little creatures having a royal old time playing on the roadway. Let's hope life is kind to them.

    FOX CUBS.jpg

    FOXCUBS.jpg

    Very nice ( was there a nature photo competition advertised on radio recently? well worth a punt :) )


  • #1070
    Gillespy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,538 ✭✭✭Gillespy


    Bad picture of the six hares taken from the tractor last June. Hard to see, oldest biggest one was pretty shabby looking and wasn't moving as fast, the rest were younger and looked very clean and healthy.


  • #1071
    kollegeknight
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    leoch wrote: »
    We have 7 or 8 hsres about our place this last few years but haven't seen 1 this year yet do they hibernate or wat

    Had our one on the lawn today having a good chomp for him/herself


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  • #1072
    feartuath
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 345 ✭✭feartuath


    Cuckoo is here since Thursday.


  • #1073
    Base price
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    feartuath wrote: »
    Cuckoo is here since Thursday.
    I only ever hear the Cuckoo when out on our bog saving turf. It wrecks my head listening to his monotonous call hour after hour - then top it off when the feckin midges descend in the evening and ate you.


  • #1074
    PoorFarmer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 707 ✭✭✭PoorFarmer


    feartuath wrote: »
    Cuckoo is here since Thursday.

    Around here too this weekend. Actually managed to see one for the first time ever on Saturday.
    Not looking forward to the little ba$tard calling for hours on end. Many is the night I wanted to take the shotgun to the shyt


  • #1075
    [Deleted User]
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    leoch wrote: »
    We have 7 or 8 hsres about our place this last few years but haven't seen 1 this year yet do they hibernate or wat

    No, they don't hibernate but it wouldn't be unusual for foxes to take all the hares in their area in a given year, or run them out. You might notice a sharp drop in here numbers when Autumn and winter comes around, when that year's foxes are at maturity.

    Hare numbers fluctuate pretty sharply, mostly depending on the foxes, but it might also depend on changing land use.


  • #1076
    bogman_bass
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    Just checked my desk app and I’ve identified 70 species on farm. There was about another 10 that it could identify the genus but not the exact species.
    Add another half dozen grasses to that. It struggles identifying grasses


  • #1077
    Rosahane
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,515 ✭✭✭Rosahane


    bogman_bass wrote: »
    Just checked my desk app and I’ve identified 70 species on farm. There was about another 10 that it could identify the genus but not the exact species.
    Add another half dozen grasses to that. It struggles identifying grasses

    The national Biodiversity Data Centre have a very nice identification guide to Ireland's grasses:

    https://www.biodiversityireland.ie/grass-identification-guide-now-available/


  • #1078
    Base price
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    I see plenty of swallows about refurbishing last years nests but I haven't seen any house martin activity yet.


  • #1079
    Base price
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    This maybe of interest for some but unfortunately imo most farmers will not participate.
    https://www.biodiversityireland.ie/festival-of-farmland-biodiversity/?fbclid=IwAR3_jOQH6OAOv92xxf0OnRhUULlUMe7V52aTIA_cQY9jQD093v9Rv0zNJiA


  • #1080
    Capercaillie
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    Base price wrote: »
    This maybe of interest for some but unfortunately imo most farmers will not participate.
    https://www.biodiversityireland.ie/festival-of-farmland-biodiversity/?fbclid=IwAR3_jOQH6OAOv92xxf0OnRhUULlUMe7V52aTIA_cQY9jQD093v9Rv0zNJiA
    Why?


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  • #1081
    I says
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,130 ✭✭✭I says


    Between the indo today and TheJournal.ie us farmers and culchies are getting hammered for spraying everything or flogging the land to death.
    My answer come down and spend a day with a farmer and country dwellers before ye attack us.


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