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Nature on your farm.

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  • #1622
    have2flushtwice
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,585 ✭✭✭have2flushtwice


    I might make an owl box based on the pictures in the link posted.



  • #1623
    youllbemine
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 205 ✭✭youllbemine


    The Louth Barn Owl Project won't put them in a yard if you use rat poison. Rightfully so, but it probably greatly reduces the places they can put them down.



  • #1624
    have2flushtwice
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,585 ✭✭✭have2flushtwice


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123938661#Comment_123938661

    I don't have poison down, but there's a good cat here. Well I thought so, until I put a trail cam out at the side of the house and saw a few shrews or mice.

    I might need to put bait out for a while. If I saw an owl I'd pull it.



  • #1625
    tabby aspreme
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123939683#Comment_123939683

    Two things that will attract an owl are the box and a source of food nearby, if you poison the mice you lessen the chance of getting an owl and also risk poisoning an owl



  • #1626
    RockOrBog
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    This fella landed in the yard today he was barely able to move, it died a half hour later.

    It had grey feathers stuck in its beak and in its claws, it went out fighting.



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  • #1627
    Austinbrick
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 301 ✭✭Austinbrick


    Escaped the claws of a raptor but not the claws of death.

    Might not have been a sparrowhawk either.

    I saw a jackdaw with a Robin in his beak before.

    Is it a sparrow or a thrush.



  • #1628
    magicbastarder
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    that's a thrush; looks like a bloody feather at its right leg so probably was wounded.



  • #1629
    Base price
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    Rightly or wrongly in low temperatures I feed feed the dicky birds with seeds scattered on the ground and the covids - rooks, crows/grey's, jackdaws. I cook pasta/rice and add in tin cat food for them along with a bit of rape seed oil and throw it out to them in the afternoon.

    In the past I used to live nearby a rookery and I miss the sound of them coming to roost.



  • #1630
    Austinbrick
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 301 ✭✭Austinbrick


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    The 1st picture was taken with a phone up to a binoculars for a close up. Works well.A good trick!

    Pic 2. Buzzard is not shy to check out the place. Phone camera does a poor close up on its own.

    Pic 3 Spring on its way slowly.

    Rookery beside us here. They will have to find new real estate soon as we will be cutting down a haggard for safety.

    Happy New Year one and all!



  • #1631
    Base price
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124117854#Comment_124117854

    The daffodils are peeking up around here too. I would love to transpose your rookery to my place - I doubt they would follow the Eircode 🤔



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  • #1632
    Austinbrick
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 301 ✭✭Austinbrick


    Can't you put up the Eircode and I'll have a word with them and see what they say!



  • #1633
    Austinbrick
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 301 ✭✭Austinbrick


    At least I will be able to tell how far it is as the crow flies.......................



  • #1634
    tellmeabit
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 1,206 ✭✭✭tellmeabit


    The buzzard numbers are increasing very much round here in kerry, very common to see them on roadside fences etc now



  • #1635
    Austinbrick
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 301 ✭✭Austinbrick


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    Taken this morning.



  • #1636
    mallards
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    From my house in Wicklow.



  • #1637
    tellmeabit
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 1,206 ✭✭✭tellmeabit


    I dont hardly remember them around as a young lad, but since I moved back to kerry in 2018 I've really noticed an increase. Noticed too that the wood pegion has dropped off at hime too



  • #1638
    DayInTheBog
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124118325#Comment_124118325

    I usually have them flying over my place. That of course might change after a fox arrived in the area. I don't hear the pheasants lately.

    I'm already down a duck and chicken.



  • #1639
    blue5000
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124121544#Comment_124121544

    It’s well camouflaged anyway, what is it? I saw a red squirrel running across a road near here this morning, haven’t seen one in years.

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



  • #1640
    magicbastarder
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    where in the country did you see the red squirrel?

    i saw one in the east for the first time ever a few months ago, in mount congreve in waterford.



  • #1641
    _Brian
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124122451#Comment_124122451

    See them regularly here in east Cavan now. They are breeding on OH home place , and I see them nearby our home place.

    Woodpeckers too, had an esb pole changed this year because the woodpeckers bored a few holes into it.



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  • #1642
    Say my name
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124122487#Comment_124122487

    You see red squirrels on the white Mountain in Co.Wexford too. See them down land too.



  • #1643
    blue5000
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124122451#Comment_124122451

    N Tipp. There’s a good bit of deciduous woodland around here plus a bit of spruce. There is pine marten here too so they could be helping to keep the grey squirrels away.

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



  • #1644
    Austinbrick
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 301 ✭✭Austinbrick


    I could do with a woodpecker boring into an esb pole in front of my house😁. Missed my chance with the storm last year. Should have attacked it like Trump!!



  • #1645
    Austinbrick
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    Is that a red kite. Impressive fella.

    Wasn't there someone in Wicklow feeding the red kites and watching them do a fly over.



  • #1646
    Austinbrick
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 301 ✭✭Austinbrick


    It's a buzzard.



  • #1647
    SuperBowserWorld
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124123327#Comment_124123327

    Avoca, County Wicklow.

    The place to go if you want to see Red Kites. Pretty much guaranteed to see them. And a beautiful little place too. Think Winter time has loads roosting there. Which reminds me I must go there in Winter time..



  • #1648
    Orban6
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 600 ✭✭✭Orban6


    Little Egret in a local field to me earlier. In 20 years, I've never seen one around here before.

    Red squirrels about as well. Myself and 2 neighbours have seen them recently.

    Woodpecker has been visiting gardens around here too.

    Also had a Sparrowhawk in the garden about 2 weeks ago.



  • #1649
    The Nutty M
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 987 ✭✭✭The Nutty M


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    This fella was flying around hunting yesterday. Some lump of a bird. Some type of hawk maybe?



  • #1650
    magicbastarder
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    How big was it compared to a heron, say? If smaller, it may have been a buzzard but a red kite would have a similar wingspan to a heron.



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  • #1651
    Gaspode
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,068 ✭✭✭Gaspode


    Lots of red squirrels around my place in NW Cavan. Looks like hibernation was short or maybe they're just taking advantage of the drier weather to forage.



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