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Nature on your farm.

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  • #1442
    youllbemine
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    anyone able to identify these please? I am 90% of all IDs but would like confirmation.

    Cheers



  • #1443
    The Rabbi
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    Sycamore ¹



  • #1444
    Austinbrick
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    Hello.What is this one??



  • #1445
    Austinbrick
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    Loads of these snails all over a grazing meadow of bullocks last night. Are they different from the liver fluke snails? I'd say yes going by google.



  • #1446
    Austinbrick
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    Also noticed out walking the fields that sloes are very ripe very early this year. They are purple already. Whereas the crab trees beside them have burnt leaves on them and less crab apples this year.



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  • #1447
    Base price
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    I think the house martins nesting under the gable of the house have headed off on their summer holidays - their nests are located above a kitchen window beside the cooker and sink so I see them but no activity since Wednesday. As I posted in the weather thread I noticed a large number of swallows and house martins gathering on the telephone wires this day last week which I presumed meant that they were getting ready to leave. There was still a few swallows about the farm on Thursday but nothing like the numbers that I saw earlier. After the fog cleared earlier this morning the day turned out to be sunny/overcast. I didn't see a house martin/swallow in the skys. It's been a **** breeding season for them weather wise and I hope to see them back in numbers next year.



  • #1448
    Birdnuts
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122564478#Comment_122564478

    They certainly had less broods - though I have seen some big ones recently emerging



  • #1449
    Base price
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    Correction to my above post. One of the house martin nests under the gable end of the house is still active and one of the swallows nest in the garage is also active. The house martins made another entrance/exit on the other side of the nest and they are actively flying in and out. I presume both were brooding a clutch and that is why I thought they had gone. I noticed a swallow on the rafters in the garage one night last week when I went to get some equipment - I haven't checked the sheds in the yards.



  • #1450
    minerleague
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    Anyone have apple orchard? was it a bad year for apples anywhere else - very poor crop here after good one last year.



  • #1451
    magicbastarder
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    not an orchard, but two apples trees in a back garden (northside in dublin) both cropped heavily this year.



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  • #1452
    PoorFarmer
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122604724#Comment_122604724

    Have a young orchard. Split about 50/50 between trees with a good crop and those with bad. Big change from last year when 2 out of 20 trees had apples. Most trees only about 4 years old so maturity might have a lot to do with it too



  • #1453
    zetecescort
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122604735#Comment_122604735

    Similar here, a few trees around the lawn weighed down with apples. Noticed a lack of wasps at them alright



  • #1454
    scarepanda
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    Ive a few mature trees around the garden and they have feck all fruits this year. That storm back in the spring, was it Kathleen?, came at the wrong time just as the blossoms were coming on and destroyed the crop. Had a great year last year.



  • #1455
    RockOrBog
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    I notice some birds gathering in numbers it's like they are getting ready to leave.

    On the flip side I've seen a few wild geese picking in the lower fields during the day, they come here for the winter, they go to the islands at night.

    The cattle are starting to get hairy, the rough coat that that means the summer is over.



  • #1456
    tabby aspreme
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    Have about 15 crab apple trees here, all different varieties, there's a full crop on some trees and none on others, cattle enjoy them despite the sour taste.

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  • #1457
    howsshenow
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    Its been said that there is a poor crop of Acorns this year, following last year's bumper crop.



  • #1458
    magicbastarder
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    That's common enough. I can't remember if last year was a mast year?



  • #1459
    nicksnikita
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    Early morning dew drops resting on spider webs



  • #1460
    Odelay
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    I notice the crows gathering on threes the would normally nest on. Also one with a large twig, looking like he was going building a nest. He looked large and mature.



  • #1461
    Austinbrick
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    No ,he's using that to fight the buzzards!!

    I saw 4 crows on centurion duty hunting a buzzard away from the rookery this evening after they all came back from a days feeding in some other location.

    There was a pair of buzzards hunting above us around 4 but the crows weren't around. They were calling to each other like mad.



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  • #1462
    Birdnuts
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    Surprisingly decent year for blackberries, rowans and elders despite the poor summer. I like berries with my morning granola so harvesting and freezing blackberries saves a packet given how expensive a tray of them are now in the shops!!

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  • #1463
    youllbemine
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122631615#Comment_122631615

    €3.99 for only 10 blackberries in my local greengrocers. Some saving!



  • #1464
    Austinbrick
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    Crazy amount of daddy long legs in the fields.



  • #1465
    Odelay
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    neighbor baled hay on Wednesday, the leaves are falling off trees today.



  • #1466
    blue5000
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    I didn’t realise it was that long since I last spread slurry. I think there’s a wren’s nest in the back actor

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    still a few swallows around here on Saturday, but they could be norn iron ones heading south. Starlings back too, **** elderberry scour on the tractor seat.

    Post edited by blue5000 on

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



  • #1467
    blue5000
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    Well look at this c u next Thursday who was in the cab this morning. Place is destroyed, it must have got in one of the side windows and then couldn’t find the way out again.

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



  • #1468
    Base price
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122648910#Comment_122648910

    I'd rather it than a rat 😧



  • #1469
    blue5000
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    That’s true BP, at least starlings don’t chew the wires. This bird was probably born in the roof vent in the tractor last April or May, so thinks the tractor is his/hers. Since switching to organic there is a lot more birds here.

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



  • #1470
    tabby aspreme
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    You'll have to sit on your hat for a few days blue 😊



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  • #1471
    Castlekeeper
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122648910#Comment_122648910

    Im not sure the bird is completely to blame for the state if the cab, but at least it did try to repair the seat...

    Did you try and hit it with the horse shoe? A risky approach ...



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