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Some pictures I took recently

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  • #5642
    splish
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 538 ✭✭✭splish


    Red-headed Cardinal Beetle Pyrochroa serraticornis

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  • #5643
    keps
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,324 ✭✭✭keps


    Caught in the light

    Sand Martin- Royal Canal


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  • #5644
    Bonedigger
    Closed Accounts Posts: 608 ✭✭✭Bonedigger


    Irish Hare

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  • #5645
    keps
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,324 ✭✭✭keps


    Today - again along Royal Canal - Swallow( as pointed out by Splish)
    A bit grainy I know


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    Edited to correct bird name from SandMartin to Swallow


  • #5646
    splish
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 538 ✭✭✭splish


    Thats a Swallow keps.


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  • #5647
    keps
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,324 ✭✭✭keps


    splish wrote: »
    Thats a Swallow keps.

    A mistake by moi?:rolleyes:

    hahaha


    I've corrected it now - thanks Splish


  • #5648
    keps
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,324 ✭✭✭keps


    SandMartin

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  • #5649
    splish
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 538 ✭✭✭splish


    Bird's-nest Orchid Neottia nidus-avis, first Wexford record since 1943.

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  • #5650
    Bonedigger
    Closed Accounts Posts: 608 ✭✭✭Bonedigger


    splish wrote: »
    Bird's-nest Orchid Neottia nidus-avis, first Wexford record since 1943.

    A great find splish - well done!:)


  • #5651
    splish
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 538 ✭✭✭splish


    Bonedigger wrote: »
    A great find splish - well done!:)

    Thanks Bonedigger, although can't claim responsibility for find as it was BSBI recorder Paul Green who saw it first.


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  • #5652
    splish
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 538 ✭✭✭splish


    Wood Avens Geum urbanum

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    Thyme-leaved Sandwort Arenaria serpyllifolia

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    Smooth Hawk's-beard Crepis capillaris

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    Selfheal Prunella vulgaris

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  • #5653
    Bonedigger
    Closed Accounts Posts: 608 ✭✭✭Bonedigger


    I watched a Fox family (an adult and two cubs) frolic about a grass meadow yesterday afternoon. The youngsters had great fun chasing butterflies. I got rather lucky when one of the cubs came within feet of me.

    Adult fox(it looks like a dog fox?):

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    Fox cub

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    Common Buzzard

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    Speckled Wood

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    Reed Bunting (m)

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    Hogweed - Heracleum sphondylium

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  • #5654
    vandriver
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,476 ✭✭✭vandriver


    One of the Dublin 12 Ravens

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  • #5655
    splish
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 538 ✭✭✭splish


    Kidney Vetch Anthyllis vulneraria

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    Salad Burnet Poterium sanguisorba ssp. sanguisorba

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  • #5656
    Bonedigger
    Closed Accounts Posts: 608 ✭✭✭Bonedigger


    I was pottering about the garden this morning when my eye was caught by something whizzing about the perennials at lightning speed. I dashed into the house to get the camera, full sure it would be gone by the time I got back, but to my delight it decided to stay for a short time giving me a chance to get the images below. It was feeding on Red Valerian (Centranthus ruber).

    Hummingbird Hawk-moth (Macroglossum stellatarum)

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  • #5657
    keps
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,324 ✭✭✭keps


    They are amazing photos Bonedigger- had to look that moth species up on Wikipedia and then Birwatch Ireland to find out more - very interesting reading:)



    PS edit
    Here is the Birdwatch Ireland piece

    http://www.birdwatchireland.ie/Publications/eWings/eWingsIssue10July2010/HummingbirdHawkmoths/tabid/1013/Default.aspx


  • #5658
    Bonedigger
    Closed Accounts Posts: 608 ✭✭✭Bonedigger


    keps wrote: »
    They are amazing photos Bonedigger- had to look that moth species up on Wikipedia and then Birwatch Ireland to find out more - very interesting reading:)



    PS edit
    Here is the Birdwatch Ireland piece

    http://www.birdwatchireland.ie/Publications/eWings/eWingsIssue10July2010/HummingbirdHawkmoths/tabid/1013/Default.aspx

    Thanks keps!
    It's always a delight to see one.


  • #5659
    Eyepatch
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,677 ✭✭✭Eyepatch


    Brilliant pics, Bonedigger. Thanks for the link, Keps! What I find fascinating about this moth is it's tail! It also has very pronunced eyes!

    BTW, is there a way of tagging members on this site?


  • #5660
    mikka631
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 823 ✭✭✭mikka631


    Meadow Pipit on Great Saltee Island 14th June 2015

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  • #5661
    mikka631
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 823 ✭✭✭mikka631


    Gannets on Great Saltee Island 14th June 2015

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  • #5662
    TopTec
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,166 ✭✭✭TopTec


    Wonderful pics Mikka. Well done.

    TT


  • #5663
    mikka631
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 823 ✭✭✭mikka631


    Puffins on Great Saltee Island 14th June 2015

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  • #5664
    V_Moth
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,423 ✭✭✭V_Moth


    mikka631 wrote: »
    Meadow Pipit on Great Saltee Island 14th June 2015

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    Nice pic. Looks like it got a Buff Ermine moth (http://ukmoths.org.uk/show.php?bf=2061).


  • #5665
    Nightforce 65X55
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 547 ✭✭✭Nightforce 65X55


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  • #5666
    Nightforce 65X55
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 547 ✭✭✭Nightforce 65X55


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  • #5667
    Nightforce 65X55
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 547 ✭✭✭Nightforce 65X55


    I'm starting to play with the macro on the camera , looking at nature from a different perspective , its a whole different world .....

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  • #5668
    splish
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 538 ✭✭✭splish


    Aradus depressus, 3rd ever Irish record and 1st record since 1923 from my garden last week

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  • #5669
    keps
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,324 ✭✭✭keps


    splish wrote: »
    Aradus depressus, 3rd ever Irish record and 1st record since 1923 from my garden last week







    Absolutely Brilliant Splish - well done:)


  • #5670
    keps
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,324 ✭✭✭keps


    SandMartin


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  • #5671
    splish
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 538 ✭✭✭splish


    Bee Orchid Ophrys apifera

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    Meadow Brown Maniola jurtina

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