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Some pictures I took recently

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    #1532
    V Bull
    Registered Users Posts: 719 ✭✭✭V Bull


    Rainbowsend wrote: »
    Haven't had any Redpolls this year :(

    I only have a few, approx 7 visiting my garden this year compared to 20+ last year, still no Siskins, weather too mild I think...

    Redpoll with ring..
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    Today at Turvey..

    Greenshank..
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    Plover..(Grey or Golden??)
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    Reed Bunting..
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    #1533
    thyme
    Registered Users Posts: 553 ✭✭✭thyme


    Went for a stroll through the forest yesterday and heard a strange bird call, that just went on and on and on, could not see a thing.
    So brought the camera for a walk this morning, and not only did I hear it again, I spotted what was making the persistent call.
    A beautiful Crossbill, four to six of them. Pictures not to good, they were high up in the trees.Male and female.


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    #1534
    Rainbowsend
    Registered Users Posts: 938 ✭✭✭Rainbowsend


    Located the spot where the Snow Buntings are hanging out in
    Greystones, saw six of them long way off so cropped to the last!

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    #1535
    whyulittle
    Registered Users Posts: 3,878 ✭✭✭whyulittle


    Took the camera out for the first day in ages today. Got nothing, but still good to get out and about again! :D Did get to see someone else's great shots of a wild Barn Owl though!

    One interesting shot actually. Pheasant on the left, Buzzard on the right.

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    #1536
    thyme
    Registered Users Posts: 553 ✭✭✭thyme


    It was a nice day to be out with the camera, took a few hours of and went back down the forest to see what I could find.
    Got to the Larch trees and the tree tops were just alive with birds,and three Red Squirrels, all happily feeding on the cones.
    Just some of what was there, I think the last two are Siskin.


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    #1537
    Mr Digger
    Closed Accounts Posts: 100 ✭✭Mr Digger


    thyme wrote: »
    It was a nice day to be out with the camera, took a few hours of and went back down the forest to see what I could find.
    Got to the Larch trees and the tree tops were just alive with birds,and three Red Squirrels, all happily feeding on the cones.
    Just some of what was there, I think the last two are Siskin.

    Yes def Siskin, nice pics of Xbill too.


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    #1538
    V Bull
    Registered Users Posts: 719 ✭✭✭V Bull


    Had to sell my good camera & lens :mad: so picks aren't great..

    **Update —just informed that this is a light coloured Common Buzzard not a RLB - I’ll have to go back again.

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    Snow Buntings..

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    Feeling down at the moment, just like this little fella with his sad little face..

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    #1539
    whyulittle
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    V Bull wrote: »
    Had to sell my good camera & lens

    Oh bummer. :(


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    #1540
    Rainbowsend
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    V Bull wrote: »
    Had to sell my good camera & lens :mad: so picks aren't great..

    Ahh sorry to hear that VBull, I can understand the low spirits :(


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    #1541
    Traonach
    Closed Accounts Posts: 419 ✭✭Traonach


    V Bull wrote: »
    IPlover..(Grey or Golden??)
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    Adult winter Grey Plover, much stronger looking than Golden plover with heavy bill compared to Golden Plover. A well defined spot in "ear" region is lacking in grey which is present in Golden.
    In winter Golden plover are usually in large flocks often inland, while grey plover will be usually present as single birds in inter-tidal mud flats like the above location.
    Sorry to hear about your camera:(.


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    #1542
    Conchir
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    I took these in Amsterdam.

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    I don't know much about birds, can anyone tell me what these are?


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    #1543
    F.R.
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    They are Coots. Love the top picture.


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    #1544
    E39MSport
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    At Ballynafagh this afternoon. Phone camera doesn't do it justice.
    Lovely up there.

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    #1545
    whyulittle
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    Chaffinch in the back garden.

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    #1546
    cameramonkey
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    Sir John Rogerson's Quay, Dublin

    black guillemot, i think.


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    #1547
    swifts need our help!
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    Yes Black guillemots. The middle one looks like it is colouring up very early


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    #1548
    cameramonkey
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    swifts need our help! wrote: »
    Yes Black guillemots. The middle one looks like it is colouring up very early

    ive only ever saw them in the summer so I was surprised at the colour. Is this winter plumage or are they juvenile birds?


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    #1549
    thyme
    Registered Users Posts: 553 ✭✭✭thyme


    One of my pets. (Sorry about the size.)

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    #1550
    cameramonkey
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    thyme wrote: »
    One of my pets. (Sorry about the size.)

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    Is that your bird?


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    #1551
    mikka631
    Registered Users Posts: 819 ✭✭✭mikka631


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    #1552
    mikka631
    Registered Users Posts: 819 ✭✭✭mikka631


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    #1553
    thyme
    Registered Users Posts: 553 ✭✭✭thyme


    cameramonkey wrote: »
    Is that your bird?

    Yes and no, I call them my pets because there's no one else here to give them food when they want it.


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    #1554
    swifts need our help!
    Registered Users Posts: 944 ✭✭✭swifts need our help!


    Cameramonkey they are in winter plumage


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    #1555
    swifts need our help!
    Registered Users Posts: 944 ✭✭✭swifts need our help!


    well done Mikka!

    Mark


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    #1556
    stupidusername
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    Visited the Phoenix Park this morning, saw the deer for the first time :)

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    These two were having a bit of a turf war :)

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    #1557
    googsy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 211 ✭✭googsy


    Mikka / Stupidusername... whatever way ye have your camera settings set to, have to say your photos are stunning !! well done !


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    #1558
    Pie Man
    Registered Users Posts: 348 ✭✭Pie Man


    Birdwatch ireland are doing a Winter Photo Competition, starts the first of feb.
    Going by the standard of photos in this thread theres a great chance of someone here winning.



    http://www.birdwatchireland.ie/Events/EpsonBirdWatchIrelandPhotoCompetition/tabid/1225/Default.aspx


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    #1559
    mikka631
    Registered Users Posts: 819 ✭✭✭mikka631


    Pie Man wrote: »
    Birdwatch ireland are doing a Winter Photo Competition, starts the first of feb.
    Going by the standard of photos in this thread theres a great chance of someone here winning.

    Thanks for the heads up :cool:


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    #1560
    birdrock4
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    Nice Pictures Nerin...


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    #1561
    mgwhelan
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    Dippers roosting in and on nest box.


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