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Some videos I took recently...

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  • #152
    OpenYourEyes
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    GreyEagle wrote: »
    I got an SVC200 cam for the bike. I thought it might be fun to try it out on the birds feeding in the garden. As it's very wide angle I set up just 24 cm from the fat ball and here is the result;

    http://youtu.be/e3txv8ybhBE

    The cage is to keep the larger birds at bay.

    Moved to the Videos thread!

    Nice to get a close up look at the birds on the feeders like that - would be particularly handy for me trying to count all of the sparrows currently using the garden for the Birdwatch Ireland garden bird survey! :D

    Worth mentioning that Birdwatch Ireland and other similar groups recommend you take the netting off the fatballs because small birds can get their feet and tongues caught in them and cut off as a result! Best to put them in a feeder, or I'm sure you could just leave it down on something since yours is protected by that netting/cage!


  • #153
    GreyEagle
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    OpenYourEyes wrote: »
    Moved to the Videos thread!


    Worth mentioning that Birdwatch Ireland and other similar groups recommend you take the netting off the fatballs because small birds can get their feet and tongues caught in them and cut off as a result! Best to put them in a feeder, or I'm sure you could just leave it down on something since yours is protected by that netting/cage!

    Ok, I'll do that. We have crows and jackdaws around here who are particularly adept at removing the fat ball bags from the cage, hence the key holder device. I'll have to find another way to fix the fat ball in position.


  • #154
    Akhenaten
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    GreyEagle wrote: »
    I got an SVC200 cam for the bike. I thought it might be fun to try it out on the birds feeding in the garden. As it's very wide angle I set up just 24 cm from the fat ball and here is the result;

    http://youtu.be/e3txv8ybhBE

    The cage is to keep the larger birds at bay.

    Great video - well done!

    It'll be interesting to see what other visitors you have to the feeder,so keep sending them in if you can.


  • #155
    GreyEagle
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    Akhenaten wrote: »
    It'll be interesting to see what other visitors you have to the feeder,so keep sending them in if you can.

    Seems to be the same old crew every day, great tit, blue tit and a bunch of sparrows who nest under the eaves. At 8Gb per minute my hard drive will be maxed out soon. More footage added below:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fI7jf2ELPxY


  • #156
    GreyEagle
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    I posted another clip: Mayhem on the Feeder
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NRZ3sk5GJD4&feature=youtu.be
    but I'm not seeing the same fantastic quality on YouTube that I get when running the clip on Windows Media Player. Does anybody know why?


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  • #157
    GreyEagle
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    Two more videos from the feeder:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fRbWV9jsHtY

    and
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3sUFXnGZmG4

    I have also started making my own fatballs to get over the netting problem(see above). The prototype got hung out just before sunset so I should get some pics tomorrow.


  • #158
    trebor28
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,051 ✭✭✭trebor28


    GreyEagle wrote: »
    I posted another clip: Mayhem on the Feeder
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NRZ3sk5GJD4&feature=youtu.be
    but I'm not seeing the same fantastic quality on YouTube that I get when running the clip on Windows Media Player. Does anybody know why?

    not sure of the specifics but youtube would significantly reduce the size of the video file which would mean the quality would take a huge hit.


  • #159
    spookwoman
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    Taken today of otter


  • #160
    Cork boy 55
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    Otter in cork city


    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2057122647


  • #161
    42inchchest
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    Eagle V Gull.
    Two eagles, one flies off, the other chases a gull.
    th_eagleVgull_zps7734690d.jpg


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  • #162
    fletch...
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    Heres some frogs I saw in Bailieberough, cavan.
    The noise was great, about half way trough there is what must be a female gone red, possibly from exhaustion from being singled out.


  • #163
    Woodville56
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    fletch... wrote: »
    Heres some frogs I saw in Bailieberough, cavan.
    The noise was great, about half way trough there is what must be a female gone red, possibly from exhaustion from being singled out

    Great piece of film there ! Seen a similar performance yesterday in a local pond ! Some of the frogs were reddish in colour and also a few dead on the margins of the pond ??


  • #164
    whyulittle
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    A Sedge Warbler singing in the rain today...

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h_RiXHV3a1M

    http://youtu.be/h_RiXHV3a1M


    And a Cuckoo calling last week...

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ntRZ3CGVPxs

    http://youtu.be/ntRZ3CGVPxs


  • #165
    Cork boy 55
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    Seefin Peak 424m(in/and Gortroche forest), East Nagles mountains, County Cork , Ireland
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cD7eBlNPC_o


  • #166
    whyulittle
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,878 ✭✭✭whyulittle


    A Snipe seemingly taking aim at me - the wide angle of the lens doesn't do it justice!

    There were 5 or 6 of them up together, with probably all of them drumming at one stage or another. I've only ever seen 1 up at a time before.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1woRN2BJJ7E

    http://youtu.be/1woRN2BJJ7E


  • #167
    MeteoritesEire
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    plenty of cuckoos about the Rosses area now.Shortly after I filmed this one it was joined by another and they flew about together for a few minutes before landing nearby.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q5boAI_0gPE


  • #168
    MeteoritesEire
    Registered Users Posts: 413 ✭✭MeteoritesEire


    pair of them

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQ9LqZRS3kE


  • #169
    MeteoritesEire
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    heard an unknown bird calling--spied him in the tree and caught him at it
    :)

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=waDdHZaJazo


  • #170
    MeteoritesEire
    Registered Users Posts: 413 ✭✭MeteoritesEire


    at the time I thought it was a bullfinch--pair of them in fact but not sure now.Maybe reed buntings? Stonechat? longer vid uploading

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hw4OQpiCky8


    taken along the Burtonport old railway walk so they would be used to quite a bit of foot traffic-not happy with me though

    I'm going with stonechat for the moment til wiser heads prevail


  • #171
    MeteoritesEire
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    must be stonechats--all that red chest area threw me I think

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x0cpx1rG5Q0


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  • #172
    Woodville56
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    They're male stonechats !!! Beautiful colours and very distinctive scratchy voice and tail flicking behaviour diagnostic also !


  • #173
    MeteoritesEire
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    ...and finally.Pretty sure it's a willow warbler?

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gpBIa-p4-pM


  • #174
    MeteoritesEire
    Registered Users Posts: 413 ✭✭MeteoritesEire


    Woodville56 wrote: »
    They're male stonechats !!! Beautiful colours and very distinctive scratchy voice and tail flicking behaviour diagnostic also !

    thanks Woodville---my first stonechats :)


  • #175
    V_Moth
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    MeteoritesEire wrote: »
    ...and finally.Pretty sure it's a willow warbler?

    Can't view the video, but the bird on the static pic is a Sedge Warbler.


  • #176
    Zoo4m8
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    It's a sedge warbler indeed, no mistaking that song and there is one singing in the back hedge here at the moment :) not much water about just a piece of bog behind the hedge and no reeds for nesting in...


  • #177
    Woodville56
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    Zoo4m8 wrote: »
    It's a sedge warbler indeed,not much water about just a piece of bog behind the hedge and no reeds for nesting in...

    Same experience here, had one singing away all night in a garden hedge, even heard them in woodland scrub, they don't seem restricted to wet/sedgy habitats !


  • #178
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
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    Years ago I came across a pair nesting in a large patch of nettles miles from the nearest reedbeds.


  • #179
    Capercaille
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    oh8or7.jpg
    Great reed warbler


  • #180
    amber2
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    Saw this red squirrel in a local forestry this morning, have never seen one so close up.


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  • #181
    Zoo4m8
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    Nehemiah Melodic Lottery wrote: »
    Years ago I came across a pair nesting in a large patch of nettles miles from the nearest reedbeds.

    There you go, I'm just programmed from a previous life in another place where there were lots of ponds and wall to wall reed beds and I always associate a singing sedge warbler with summer and that place and time. :cool:


  • #182
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
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    Zoo4m8 wrote: »
    There you go, I'm just programmed from a previous life in another place where there were lots of ponds and wall to wall reed beds and I always associate a singing sedge warbler with summer and that place and time. :cool:

    And that's still where I expect to, and usually do, find them. I have the luxury of acres of reedbed right beside my house - a magical sound on a sunny evening.
    The nettle nest was at least 50 years ago, now that I think about it. How the years fly by! :)


  • #183
    MeteoritesEire
    Registered Users Posts: 413 ✭✭MeteoritesEire


    a wet reeded area is exactly where I filmed that one.Thx for correction lads--noted on vid


  • #184
    F.R.
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 334 ✭✭F.R.


    Caught a pair of 7-spots getting jiggy
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jbdgPqRv1MA


  • #185
    F.R.
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 334 ✭✭F.R.


    For some reason my previous attempt to post this failed. Hopefully this works.


  • #186
    Cork boy 55
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    Sand Martin ( Martins ) birds nesting in an abandoned Quarry in Ireland ( Europe) in July. (hole close up was not in use) very large population

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-TSSrdpxWo0


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  • #187
    Cork boy 55
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    What bird is this? a cormorant chick? very tame!
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZqlDPePdZRg


  • #188
    whyulittle
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    Buzzard

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4_qq4JIzAVk

    http://youtu.be/4_qq4JIzAVk


  • #189
    MeteoritesEire
    Registered Users Posts: 413 ✭✭MeteoritesEire


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rob-LKb2N4c


    flew into my window earlier-stunned but flew off after short rest


  • #190
    SlowBlowin
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    We have started to regular visits from a Pine Marten..



    Sneem - Kerry


  • #191
    Cork boy 55
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    Can anyone identity this bird by sound?
    huge flock in trees maybe 1.5-times the size of a sparrow , greyish
    could not get a good look at them , this was in October at about 400 metres high

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Bsz_aqhDr4


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  • #192
    DellyBelly
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    Starlings would be my guess?


  • #193
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
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    Likewise, it sounds like a flock of immature starlings.


  • #194
    Cork boy 55
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    DellyBelly wrote: »
    Starlings would be my guess?

    They where not starlings , too small.


  • #195
    MeteoritesEire
    Registered Users Posts: 413 ✭✭MeteoritesEire


    put the video back up givvuz a listen


  • #196
    Cork boy 55
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    MeteoritesEire wrote: »
    put the video back up givvuz a listen


    00:10 - 00:45 at this link

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XuiA94dbiQk


  • #197
    MeteoritesEire
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    they sure do sound like starlings--not what you wanna hear but thx for reposting


  • #198
    V_Moth
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    Cork boy 55 wrote: »
    00:10 - 00:45 at this link

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=

    Unfortunately the sound is very distorted, but some of the phrases I can hear sound like Siskin - probably a large flock of them. Compare here:

    http://www.xeno-canto.org/190368


  • #199
    MeteoritesEire
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    nice find v moth


  • #200
    Cork boy 55
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    V_Moth wrote: »
    Unfortunately the sound is very distorted, but some of the phrases I can hear sound like Siskin - probably a large flock of them. Compare here:

    http://www.xeno-canto.org/190368

    That could be it , There where about that size maybe a bit bigger IIRC
    don't recall seeing yellow(just recall greyish maybe some white, IIRC),
    but light was pretty bad did not get a good look
    also book says colours in winter are more subdued,
    also says they hang out with redpoll in winter mixed flocks
    in woodlands.


  • #201
    V_Moth
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    Cork boy 55 wrote: »
    That could be it , There where about that size maybe a bit bigger IIRC
    don't recall seeing yellow(just recall greyish maybe some white, IIRC),
    but light was pretty bad did not get a good look
    also book says colours in winter are more subdued,
    also says they hang out with redpoll in winter mixed flocks
    in woodlands.

    Females and juveniles are not as brightly coloured as male Siskins and generally look more grey and white with black streaking. Both Siskin and Redpoll are typical birds of coniferous forests throughout Ireland.


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