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

lolie · 20-01-2021 3:30am

Bobby out late this evening at 5.30pm.
It knows to follow me in to the shed and waits by the bucket till i open the lid.

And a chaffinch enjoying the sun last week.

Pottokblue, no names for the new pair, naming the tame pair started as a joke no expecting them to hang around.
Mystic86, on android i find Picture Bird(images) and BirdNET(sounds) useful for identifying different bird speices.

Also Winterwatch is on Bbc2 at 8pm for the next two weeks and also on the red button throughout the day.

pottokblue · 20-01-2021 12:19pm

Lolie Bobby is breaking my heart in his bucket and after dark! Please keep posting as possible...

Loyal Lady · 21-01-2021 12:32pm

I thought your other photo lolie was a once off! Meteorite58’s photo too reminded me of one of my father’s friends. This gentleman had a brother who would call wild birds and they would flock over to land on his hand or his shoulder. The family were known for a very famous stallion (and kindness to nature) and I read once of a visitor to their farm being amazed to see the man sitting in the stable with two robins perching on his shoulder. lolie you have that gift too (and being able to photograph it at the same time)

Bsal · 21-01-2021 4:42pm

Goldfinch

Social distancing

pottokblue · 21-01-2021 8:23pm

the redface on the Goldfinch gorgeous picture Bsal.

Did your makeuup artist use a drier on your model pigeon to puff her up?

corks finest · 22-01-2021 10:26pm

lolie wrote: »

Bobby out late this evening at 5.30pm.
It knows to follow me in to the shed and waits by the bucket till i open the lid.

And a chaffinch enjoying the sun last week.

Pottokblue, no names for the new pair, naming the tame pair started as a joke no expecting them to hang around.
Mystic86, on android i find Picture Bird(images) and BirdNET(sounds) useful for identifying different bird speices.

Also Winterwatch is on Bbc2 at 8pm for the next two weeks and also on the red button throughout the day.

Class

NEW WAVE · 23-01-2021 8:47pm

Coal Tit

lolie · 23-01-2021 11:28pm

Yesterday evening after 5pm. Robbie

Bobby just before 5.30 in for porridge supper.

And plumped up in the cold this morning

Loyal lady, its a nice thought but i think its just a pair of hungry robins who's parent was fed on the windowsill and then brought her babies to the back door for the same.
What we think is a parent, taken through the window in early June

Livefornow · 23-01-2021 11:35pm

Brilliant photos and love hearing about the back storey Lolie.

Meteorite58 · 23-01-2021 11:52pm

Coal Tit as well here in Kerry today.

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Meteorite58 · 25-01-2021 1:08am

A few in flight recently in Tralee Bay.

Egret, Sanderling, Bar Tailed Godwit and Oystercatcher.

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lolie · 25-01-2021 3:09am

Few taken through the back window early on Sunday
Pied wagtail

Blackbird

One with white feathers on its back

Mistle thrush

IamMetaldave · 25-01-2021 10:25am

I was taking some sunrise snaps on the Vico road this morning and made a new pal, very interested in my camera.

odyssey06 · 25-01-2021 11:23am

IamMetaldave wrote: »

I was taking some sunrise snaps on the Vico road this morning and made a new pal, very interested in my camera.

Might have seen their reflection on the camera lens - assuming you were using a camera not a phone.
Thought there was another bird in front of them?

IamMetaldave · 25-01-2021 11:41am

odyssey06 wrote: »

Might have seen their reflection on the camera lens - assuming you were using a camera not a phone.
Thought there was another bird in front of them?

Good point! I was using my camera, indeed.

IrishZeus · 25-01-2021 12:40pm

Seeing as we're all about the robins at the moment:

IrishZeus · 25-01-2021 12:47pm

And one or two others. Its been so long since I uploaded here that I hope I'm not doubling up!

Starling:

Hare:

Deer at the house:

Bee:

Ichneumon wasp:

pottokblue · 26-01-2021 2:32pm

Wow Zeus your Robin, Starling, Hare, Deer amazeballs!

pottokblue · 26-01-2021 2:36pm

Lolie I love that Bobby comes into kitchen for his porridge supper, Iammetaldave great sunrise photo was the Robin in birdsong as plenty of them were singing last week on howth walk,

cnocbui · 26-01-2021 2:36pm

pottokblue · 26-01-2021 2:39pm

Black on white superb cnocbui

cnocbui · 26-01-2021 2:40pm

pottokblue · 26-01-2021 2:46pm

Happy days another robin picture! Maybe at this stage someone should start a robin thread?

cnocbui · 26-01-2021 3:06pm

An unusually large Robin.

pottokblue · 26-01-2021 4:13pm

aaaaw that little fella is gorgeous cnocbui !

cnocbui · 26-01-2021 5:58pm

lolie · 29-01-2021 3:31am

Bobby in the hedge today singing away.

In the window yesterday afternoon

pottokblue · 29-01-2021 12:12pm

Bobby on song!

Grogu1983 · 30-01-2021 9:39pm

This pair are always around

Wicklow

Meteorite58 · 31-01-2021 8:10pm

Wood Ear mushrooms on a log in my garden today.

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NEW WAVE · 31-01-2021 9:23pm

Gold Crest

pottokblue · 31-01-2021 9:25pm

This thread and lockdown has really given me an appreciation of local and visiting birds I'm hope to join Birdwatch Ireland this year and get to Cape Clear when restrictions are lifted....

fryup · 31-01-2021 11:39pm

so who's entering the RTE's nature photo competition?? 1k prize money i do believe

Interslice · 01-02-2021 1:11am

lolie wrote: »

Mistle thrush

I think that's a song thrush. There is a mistle thrush regularly in the back garden and it stands very straight and tall. It lighter coloured also.

lolie · 01-02-2021 3:51pm

Interslice wrote: »

I think that's a song thrush. There is a mistle thrush regularly in the back garden and it stands very straight and tall. It lighter coloured also.

I'm sticking with it being a mistle thrush.
Its not the best photo as it was taken through the window on a dull day.
Much larger than the song thrushes around here, it even made the blackbirds look small.

TedR · 01-02-2021 6:54pm

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.

bmc58 · 01-02-2021 6:58pm

Meteorite58 wrote: »

Wood Ear mushrooms on a log in my garden today.

Seen them before in my area.Just wondering are they edible?I love wild mushrooms but don't know enough about them to chance even touching some that I see on my wanderings.

cnocbui · 01-02-2021 8:25pm

bmc58 wrote: »

Seen them before in my area.Just wondering are they edible?I love wild mushrooms but don't know enough about them to chance even touching some that I see on my wanderings.

https://www.wildfooduk.com/mushroom-guide/

NIMAN · 01-02-2021 8:47pm

Saw this skeleton today at the beach.

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

Is It a lobster?

Meteorite58 · 01-02-2021 9:12pm

cnocbui wrote: »

https://www.wildfooduk.com/mushroom-guide/

Yeah I believe they are edible, and can be dried out and used later ( but would need to be sure when picking that they are the right ones, haven't eaten them myself but have eaten lots of wild mushrooms in the past.

Also called Tree Ears and Jelly Ears from what I have learnt online.

Interslice · 01-02-2021 10:44pm

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.

The mistles are are a striking elegant looking bird. They're really nice to see but they're nervous enough. The song thrush is more dark squat and scruffy. I need to get myself a decent camera as they all hang about down the back of the garden away from the house!

HoteiMarkii · 01-02-2021 11:24pm

NIMAN wrote: »

Saw this skeleton today at the beach.

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

Is It a lobster?

Lobsters are invertebrates, so would not have a backbone. Hard to tell for sure, but maybe from a species of fish.

pottokblue · 02-02-2021 8:23pm

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??