Some Nature Pictures I Took Recently - II (Seasonal Photos)

glaswegian · 03-02-2021 8:12pm

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IMG_9284 by John Docherty, on Flickr

glaswegian · 03-02-2021 8:14pm

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IMG_9853 by John Docherty, on Flickr

glaswegian · 03-02-2021 8:17pm

Apologies for the lack of text with the photos, i can't figure out how to add text when i've pasted my image into the reply box.

New Home · 03-02-2021 8:39pm

You just need to type after the last ].

Otherwise, you can type your text first (starting with a blank line, if you want space) then go before the first letter of your sentence and attach/embed your image there.

glaswegian · 03-02-2021 9:07pm

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rsz_img_9023 by John Docherty, on Flickr

Wee Robin taken at Doorly park, Sligo.

glaswegian · 03-02-2021 9:09pm

New Home wrote: »

You just need to type after the last ].

Otherwise, you can type your text first (starting with a blank line, if you want space) then go before the first letter of your sentence and attach/embed your image there.

Thanks, New Home, i think i've got it in a round about way.

glaswegian · 03-02-2021 9:36pm

IMG_7370 by John Docherty, on Flickr
Gull at Gibraltar point, Sligo.

Bsal · 03-02-2021 10:53pm

Male Blackcap

Goldfinch on the feeder

Robin in the olive tree

glaswegian · 04-02-2021 9:16pm

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IMG_9973 by John Docherty, on Flickr

glaswegian · 04-02-2021 9:29pm

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Grebe on lough Gill, Sligo.

glaswegian · 04-02-2021 9:34pm

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glaswegian · 04-02-2021 9:40pm

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I don't know if this counts as a nature picture, i've never seen one before so had to google it, it's a fog bow, it follows the same rules as a rainbow re sunlight and moisture droplets. photographed at Deepwater quay sligo Jan 2020.

glaswegian · 04-02-2021 9:45pm

IMG_0158 by John Docherty, on Flickr

Frosty morning in Doorly park,Sligo.

NIMAN · 05-02-2021 1:16am

While dandering on the beach the other day, saw some interesting rock formations/structures, and really got me thinking about the timeline involved to create such shapes and patterns. Really makes you feel insignificant!

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Rock by S, on Flickr

And then these 2, with incredibly smooth spherical indentations
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Hollow 1 by S, on Flickr

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Hollow 2 by S, on Flickr

lolie · 05-02-2021 3:13am

pottokblue wrote: »

Lolie a little question what does Bobby like to snack on?? I went for a walk yesterday with some monkeynuts. I sat on a bench where a robin usually frequents. I offered a peanut which he/she picked up and then dropped. Further along the walk I met another robin, this time I peeled and broke up the peanut, the robin came to check the peanut but not eat it. What snacks would you recommend that I bring on my next walk for the robins??

Apologies for the late reply
I normally feed them raw porridge, chopped apple, chopped nuts or mixed seed. I've caught it tucking into the mixed grain bread a few times.
But if anything it seems to eat the raw porridge the most.

TedR wrote: »

I would say song thrush also.
Mistle Thrush tend to look a bit paler, even overall tones of gray. The size differential v the local blackbirds etc could be due to the bird puffing itself up against the cold.
Mistle has white edges to each side of the tail, clearer in flight, but still look to be completely absent here.

Great shots of the friendly robin earlier in thread btw, very cool.

Hmmm, I'm really starting to doubt myself now.
I sent a query of the rspb uk last week and they replied its a Mistle.
Here's the other photos of it, i didnt manage to get a frontal photo though.

NIMAN · 05-02-2021 5:28am

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Hog by S, on Flickr

Admittedly an old image from last year, but I was using it to try to get an image to embed.
Successful!

He visited us for a couple of days, kids loved him (or her).

pottokblue · 05-02-2021 12:43pm

Glaswegian/Bsal love your robin pics, Niman could hogs be my mammal equivalent of robins on tthis thread I'll never get enough pics

DeadSkin · 05-02-2021 3:46pm

Out for a walk at lunch and came across 2 foxes, picture not the greatest as they were a fair bit away. They actually looked like they were playing.

pottokblue · 05-02-2021 4:01pm

Deadskin a nice picture of the boisterous fox pair playing I'm listening to garden birdsong and it feels like spring in the air!

NIMAN · 06-02-2021 3:30pm

NIMAN wrote: »

Saw this skeleton today at the beach.

https://flic.kr/p/2kxMGeM

Is It a lobster?

Actually found out it's a seal.

This piece of skeleton can be seen on the attached diagram, just above it's rear legs/flippers.

https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Phocid-seal-skeleton-modified-after-Boyle-2005-showing-location-of-possible-cuts_fig3_280265480

And this photo from the other side shows the 3 ribs at the top of that diagram.

https://flic.kr/p/2kz3fs5

cnocbui · 06-02-2021 4:57pm

NIMAN wrote: »

Actually found out it's a seal.

This piece of skeleton can be seen on the attached diagram, just above it's rear legs/flippers.

https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Phocid-seal-skeleton-modified-after-Boyle-2005-showing-location-of-possible-cuts_fig3_280265480

And this photo from the other side shows the 3 ribs at the top of that diagram.

https://flic.kr/p/2kz3fs5

I was sorely tempted to reply earlier, but didn't, that that must have been a pretty large fish.

cnocbui · 06-02-2021 5:01pm

DeadSkin wrote: »

Out for a walk at lunch and came across 2 foxes, picture not the greatest as they were a fair bit away. They actually looked like they were playing.

Do animals truly play? I suspect they are either training to catch and kill or in this, looking to pull.

Mimon · 06-02-2021 5:10pm

cnocbui wrote: »

Do animals truly play? I suspect they are either training to catch and kill or in this, looking to pull.

It is training but doesn't mean it is not fun for them. Some species part of it to develop a hierarchy that may last when they are adults.

NEW WAVE · 06-02-2021 9:02pm

Robin

pottokblue · 07-02-2021 1:30pm

Thanks lolie I'll try that on my next walk to that bench as the robin is usually solo there. I have 2 robins that hang out in my garden and at the neighbours but I dont think I'll be able to befriend them like you have with Bobby as I have a ginger cat and theres lots of other birds magpies pigeons... That said I shared a christmas morning hotchocolate with the cat, a fox and robin...

Newwave I like the way your robin side white feathers has this I'm just out of the nest look!

NEW WAVE · 07-02-2021 2:00pm

pottokblue wrote: »

Thanks lolie I'll try that on my next walk to that bench as the robin is usually solo there. I have 2 robins that hang out in my garden and at the neighbours but I dont think I'll be able to befriend them like you have with Bobby as I have a ginger cat and theres lots of other birds magpies pigeons... That said I shared a christmas morning hotchocolate with the cat, a fox and robin...

Newwave I like the way your robin side white feathers has this I'm just out of the nest look!

Taken 14/1/21. Wind caught his feathers thats what caught my eye and reason I posted. Light not the best.

Be right back · 08-02-2021 11:27am

A visitor to the garden this morning. Never saw him before.

glaswegian · 08-02-2021 8:47pm

glaswegian · 08-02-2021 8:51pm

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Be right back · 08-02-2021 8:53pm

^^ 2 of my favourite birds.

glaswegian · 08-02-2021 8:53pm

Loch Gill Swan.

glaswegian · 08-02-2021 8:57pm

Doves on the feeders.

glaswegian · 08-02-2021 9:01pm

stevensi · 10-02-2021 11:19am

Hmmm, I'm really starting to doubt myself now.
I sent a query of the rspb uk last week and they replied its a Mistle.
Here's the other photos of it, i didnt manage to get a frontal photo though.

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You shouldn't have doubted yourself...It is a Mistle Thrush

pottokblue · 10-02-2021 11:47am

Glaswegian your doves look like from a Prince MTV video! and I love your robinpic.

DeadSkin · 10-02-2021 5:37pm

A couple of pictures from last October, one of a buzzard that took off just as I was about to take a shot of it. It was being pestered by another raptor, anyone any ideas what the other bird is?

I've seen crows chase off buzzards, but this other bird was smaller, not sure what it is though! Thanks!

TedR · 10-02-2021 6:39pm

Pic not great, but peregrine

piwyudo0fhn57b · 10-02-2021 6:46pm

Beautiful!

glaswegian · 10-02-2021 8:14pm

pottokblue wrote: »

Glaswegian your doves look like from a Prince MTV video! and I love your robinpic.

Thanks Pottokblue, it's a pity the feeder was in the way, glad you like the Robin pics, it's near a certainty i'll get a picture of one when i'm out walking, i must have hundreds by now.:)

glaswegian · 10-02-2021 8:18pm

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glaswegian · 10-02-2021 8:20pm

glaswegian · 10-02-2021 8:22pm

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glaswegian · 10-02-2021 8:25pm

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This wee fella was taking a nap on the tree where my feeders hang.

glaswegian · 10-02-2021 8:27pm

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NEW WAVE · 12-02-2021 11:06pm

Robin

pottokblue · 13-02-2021 10:57am

Newwave an elegant robin, glaswegian I like your little punk bluetit and your napping fellow post his nutfeast

pottokblue · 13-02-2021 12:50pm

No Robins but a nice pictures of a kingfisher and flock of Bewickswans turned back on migration due to storm darcy and a heartwarming sleeping squirrel like myself early this morning

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/gallery/2021/feb/12/the-week-in-wildlife-in-pictures

Meteorite58 · 14-02-2021 10:25pm

Blue Tit in the Willow here in Kerry this afternoon.

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HoteiMarkii · 14-02-2021 11:44pm

pottokblue wrote: »

No Robins but a nice pictures of a kingfisher and flock of Bewickswans turned back on migration due to storm darcy and a heartwarming sleeping squirrel like myself early this morning

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/gallery/2021/feb/12/the-week-in-wildlife-in-pictures

Some amazing looking images there. The Lionfish one is stunning.

glaswegian · 17-02-2021 8:27pm

rsz_img_0785 by John Docherty, on Flickr

Some Nature Pictures I Took Recently - II (Seasonal Photos)

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