Some videos I took recently...

TopTec · 17-10-2017 10:34pm

My turn then....

Poaching on my pond.... look at the time!

TT

keps · 26-10-2017 9:02pm

Dipper

These guys are great fun to watch( IMO)

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keps · 31-10-2017 7:50pm

Spotted that possible 'hybrid' wagtail again today

That 'possible' Hybrid Wagtail once more

keps · 01-11-2017 8:00pm

Aghhhh

Really annoyed- just missed a real good courtship capture

These two have been 'dating' for 10 days or so- but they do it over a 1000m stretch so it's hard to keep tabs

Was watching them today - they keep many metres apart but still keeping an 'eye out'

Then he did it- he flew right beside her( I presume it's the male who displays?) and opened his wings in a wide gesture- just got the video going as she turned her(?) back

here

I still think they will make ago of it- saw them later still cavorting

keps · 02-11-2017 12:24am

Getting ready for the BIG date

Keplar240B · 30-06-2018 11:45am

not my video.

Eddie B · 05-07-2018 3:32pm

gzoladz wrote: »

Barn Owl, the video.

https://youtu.be/NWV5gZLxuJU

Trying to figure out why it is not embedding correctly...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NWV5gZLxuJU

Boardnashea · 19-07-2018 1:20pm

Hummingbird hawk moth

Link not working. I'll work on it.

:o

tricky D · 20-07-2018 2:38pm

Fixed for you

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mDHNur8HJr8

Boardnashea · 20-07-2018 5:36pm

Thanks tricky D

dball · 04-08-2018 9:47pm

https://twitter.com/emotionalpedant/status/1023983232021356544

spookwoman · 13-08-2018 5:13pm

We have at least 4 hedgehogs visiting every night for food. I compiled all the cctv clips over one night and sped up by 4. Never knew they were spending so much time in the garden. Fluff the local stray even got ambushed

If you have 20 mins to spare take a look. It started at 09:10pm and finished at 04.50am

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e25dp6tLlDY

CYHSN · 17-10-2018 11:20am

Have been trying to feed a visiting hedgehog these past few weeks, numerous cats in area so built a enclosed feeder, the entrance set at 5x5 inches with tunnels, then reduced it to 4inches, look at this fecker still managing to get in

Hedgehog arriving after food is gone

spookwoman · 17-10-2018 1:57pm

CYHSN wrote: »

Have been trying to feed a visiting hedgehog these past few weeks, numerous cats in area so built a enclosed feeder, the entrance set at 5x5 inches with tunnels, then reduced it to 4inches, look at this fecker still managing to get in

Hedgehog arriving after food is gone

what a lot of the hedgehog feeding boxes do is they put a wall on the inside so they have to worm their way around this stops the cats. what you could do and I've heard people do it is put a bricks in front of the door so they have to come in at an angle

CYHSN · 17-10-2018 4:26pm

spookwoman wrote: »

what a lot of the hedgehog feeding boxes do is they put a wall on the inside so they have to worm their way around this stops the cats. what you could do and I've heard people do it is put a bricks in front of the door so they have to come in at an angle

Yeah I based the design from what I've seen online, I have 2 walls inside that he has to work his way around yet still manages, one determined cat for sure.

jazzyk · 04-11-2018 12:00am

Captured a starling murmuration in wexford this week

https://youtu.be/9ocR_6eDt7w

https://youtu.be/9ocR_6eDt7w

SlowBlowin · 22-02-2019 12:25am

Irish Stoat at my bird feeders...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LxK0qxWNH6I

SlowBlowin · 22-02-2019 12:27am

Pine Marten at my feeders

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

Del.Monte · 02-03-2019 7:17pm

The Sand Martins were back again in 2018 but sadly moved on after inspecting the wall. Fingers crossed for this year.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ij6QBnLvMJ8

keps · 02-03-2019 9:42pm

Del.Monte wrote: »

The Sand Martins were back again in 2018 but sadly moved on after inspecting the wall. Fingers crossed for this year.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ij6QBnLvMJ8

Great video- loved it:)

fiacha · 13-06-2019 4:27pm

I forgot to re-fill the seed feeders this morning so things were a bit quiet around the garden. Less than a minute after filling them the little brown beasts appeared

sorry about the vertical video !

magicbastarder · 05-07-2019 7:17pm

not the best video, but what sort of moth might this be? some sort of hawk moth?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-IN1jcf89eQ

Alun · 05-07-2019 7:34pm

magicbastarder wrote: »

not the best video, but what sort of moth might this be? some sort of hawk moth?

Hummingbird hawk moth.

magicbastarder · 05-07-2019 10:49pm

cheers, i'm not well up on moths and could probably only name three or four species of hawk moth off the top of my head, let alone identify them.

Alun · 08-07-2019 4:08pm

If you manage to see one up close for more than a fleeting glimpse it does look to all intents and purposes like a small hummingbird in the way it hovers, and it's long proboscis. In fact when the do appear in any numbers here we usually get loads of posts from people claiming they've actually seen a real hummingbird!

FlipperThePriest · 13-09-2019 11:41am

Spotted him in the garden one morning and left some food out.

You can see from the timestamp he makes 2 visits 3 hours apart.

gzoladz · 12-04-2020 9:15pm

Male sparrowhawk in roosting site

https://youtu.be/InY5zlD2LLc

New Home · 12-04-2020 9:42pm

Is that the guy with the freakish long beak? Cyrano?

gzoladz · 13-04-2020 7:45am

New Home wrote: »

Is that the guy with the freakish long beak? Cyrano?

Yes, same guy different day. The pictures I posted on the pics thread were taken on Thursday. The video is from yesterday, Sunday. Cyrano (loved Cyrano!) was perching exactly on the same place, so that may be his roosting site.

I did check the spot on Fri and Sat too during my walk but I did not see him. Every few days I see a female too but flying high up (I have not seen her displaying)...this could be interesting.

gzoladz · 13-04-2020 9:16am

Cyrano was there showing very well right now...yesterday he was very deep into the canopy, today he was perching in the same three but at one of the outer branches, keeping an eye on the smaller birds. Certainly looking for breakfast but while I was there he did not make any attempt to catch anything.

I will post some pics later in the "Photos" thread.

gzoladz · 14-04-2020 7:21pm

Well, well, well...

TopTec · 15-04-2020 9:51am

Oh, Nice one Gzoladz. Cracking catch on your camera. I have a pair courting in the trees in my garden. The male bringing her food, he uses my garden as a McDonalds, and her making a chirruping noise to bring him in. They will be nesting in the forestry about 1km away.

I have been searching for their plucking post for a couple of years now so I can camera trap it but no luck so far.

TT

gzoladz · 15-04-2020 8:19pm

Thanks TT, I was lucky enough to get amazing views...I only saw the female today in the morning, very busy nest building. No sign of any of them in the afternoon.

Wheety · 05-05-2020 9:35pm

Saw this yesterday thought it was funny. They were back today.

It seems to be a mammy blackbird feeding a baby blackbird in my garden. The baby is just as big

At one point the baby kept dropping a bit and the Mother kept putting it back in it's mouth. I haven't seen this before and thought once they were fledged, they look after themselves?

Unless I'm wrong and it's a henpecked husband, but the feeder was brown and the feedee was a lighter speckled brown.

New Home · 05-05-2020 11:25pm

Teenage Bird: "Maaaaaam!!! Make me a sammich!"
Mammy Bird: "Make it yourself, you're old enough!"
Teenage Bird: "But MAAAAAAAAAM!!!"
Mammy Bird: "I said no. I made you a perfectly good pair of hands, use them!"
Teenage Bird: "But MAAAAAAAAAM!!! I can't make them as good as yours... Pleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeze!!!!!"
Teenage Bird: "Ah, here! Give me strength!! But this is the very last time, do you hear me?"

gzoladz · 10-07-2020 7:49pm

Mummy sparrowhawk having a bath

gzoladz · 13-09-2020 5:40pm

Dublin Pine Marten

SnowyMuckish · 18-09-2020 9:01pm

I can never figure out how to post videos! What am I doing wrong I wonder? My link is https://youtu.be/JnLhevOrb7E which I put between the YouTube brackets?