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  • #2372
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    Well it’s official, the first May over without noticing a single May fly in the house. My abiding childhood memory was of the house being overrun by them every year and sticky traps hung everywhere. How times have changed!



  • #2373
    x567
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 238 ✭✭x567


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122207488#Comment_122207488

    There were far fewer here in May than usual; but they were seen in quite big numbers from early April. They might be in for a name-change!



  • #2374
    Pawwed Rig
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,447 ✭✭✭✭Pawwed Rig


    We bought a house a couple of years ago in need of some work and we are finally getting around to doing it.

    We have had tree sparrows nesting in the roof through a damaged bit every year returning to the exact same place however as part of the work that area will be torn apart.

    Any advice? If I got a bird box would they relocate to it?

    Also when do they start nesting?



  • #2375
    magicbastarder
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 52,166 CMod ✭✭✭✭magicbastarder


    first tiny clump of frogspawn has appeared in the pond. we've had the odd frog so far, but nowhere near the activity we'd expect once things get going.



  • #2376
    fiacha
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 803 ✭✭✭fiacha


    10 plus years of mooching around the Phoenix Park (my local patch) and I finally got to see a Great Spotted Woodpecker (possibly two) yesterday. Years of being told that they are present, but never managed to see or hear one.

    Very interesting bird to watch. For such vivid plumage, they are very good at disappearing into the foliage. Couldn't get close enough for a photograph.

    Nobody else is interested, so had to share it with you folks LOL. Almost 50 and our wildlife can still make me feel like a giddy kid :D



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  • #2377
    magicbastarder
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 52,166 CMod ✭✭✭✭magicbastarder


    nice - where in the park was it?



  • #2378
    fiacha
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 803 ✭✭✭fiacha


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123332547#Comment_123332547

    ..

    Post edited by fiacha on


  • #2379
    Billy Mays
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,351 ✭✭✭Billy Mays


    I heard one drumming up in the park last week but didn't manage to see it



  • #2380
    magicbastarder
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 52,166 CMod ✭✭✭✭magicbastarder


    i know a chap working in st catherine's park in lucan and he's gotten photos of woodpeckers there too.



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