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  • #152
    trebor28
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    just watching the rugby from Twickenham, and there is a fox on the field. stadium is full and teams walking out on the field.

    fox looks cool out, though it must be quite imposing for him.


  • #153
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
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    The Fox was far from cool. Everything about its body language screamed terrified.


  • #154
    artieanna
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    What a place he picked to go for his stroll....


  • #155
    littlebug
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    A question from my 6 year old today....
    " Do the black headed gulls have their black heads back on again yet?" :D


  • #156
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
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    And they do indeed! I hope you told her they should be called
    chocolate-brown headed gulls.:p


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  • #157
    littlebug
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    Kayla Moldy Supernova wrote: »
    And they do indeed! I hope you told her they should be called
    chocolate-brown headed gulls.:p

    I told him I'd take him to Nimmo's pier at the weekend to have a look as I wasn't sure :o We've had the chocolate brown vs black conversation before:). He knows his gulls better than I do!


  • #158
    littlebug
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    There was an abundance of very big and very green butterflies in the woods in Cong this morning. Possibly Brimstone though I didn't get a close enough look. It seems a bit early for any of the other green types.


  • #159
    Mothman
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    Can't be anything else but Brimstone.


  • #160
    homerhop
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    Talking to a friend earlier and he said you would never guess what he saw yesterday, so I said geese flying over your house. He said yes how did I know. I told him I was in the wood yesterday evening and 2 flights went over it at around 6.30. He said the flights were passing over well into the night that he could hear them cackling as they went over his house.


  • #161
    Rainbowsend
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    Just back from a trip to New Zealand, and though it is a beautiful country with stunning scenery the lack of birds and wildlife was very noticable, to me anyway. I really missed birdsong and the first thing I heard on my return was the birds singing their hearts out. We really are very lucky here with the vast range of birds and wildlife available to us.


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  • #162
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
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    homerhop wrote: »
    Talking to a friend earlier and he said you would never guess what he saw yesterday, so I said geese flying over your house. He said yes how did I know. I told him I was in the wood yesterday evening and 2 flights went over it at around 6.30. He said the flights were passing over well into the night that he could hear them cackling as they went over his house.

    Many species of Goose will be returning north from now in to April.


  • #163
    homerhop
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    Noticed a bunch of pine cones scattered around an old stump yesterday freshly stripped to the core.


  • #164
    stupidusername
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    I meant to say ages ago that I saw a black headed gull over the liffey one evening.

    I'm heading out to bull island today :D apparently there's a bird sanctuary there. hopefully i'll get some good pics.


  • #165
    Mothman
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    Mothman wrote: »
    (posted 8th Feb)
    My swans have left for now, probably to get their fix of Johnson, Mooney and O'Brien....
    Remarkably, they stayed away till this morning :eek: Great to see them :D I need them to give the Bulrushes/Reed mace in check :)

    I haven't checked to see if they are "my" swans but they seem quite familiar with the place.

    Was really starting to think that the recently acquired dog had driven them off, but on the other hand, I didn't really believe that she would give up on site that she has nested in for the last 8 years or so.

    Hopefully there'll be plenty more to this story this year :)

    EDIT, they are "my swans". I've just driven out of my new little pond. :rolleyes:
    I may put a fence up, or just tie the dog there :)


  • #166
    littlebug
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    Was that windy or what? :eek: I've been awake since before 5 listening to bins, basketball stand and other various things blowing over.


  • #167
    trebor28
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    came home lateish last night and could hear a dog going mad barking out in his run.
    went out to check and there was a hedgehog in the run all curled up.
    the ground was fairly worn around him so i dont know how long it was going on for.
    moved the hedgehog to a quiet spot and checked on him bout 10 mins later but he was gone.


  • #168
    Half-cocked
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    Spotted a few swallows up near Dunshaughlan, Co. Meath today. Also a few Yellowhammers, are they getting more common, I see them a lot now.


  • #169
    Mothman
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    TRNIALL wrote: »
    BTW hows the Swans,are they nesting this Year.
    Answering a query from another thread.
    My Swans have built a nest a bit further away from house than last year and out of direct sight. There may well be eggs laid.


  • #170
    trebor28
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    anyone else think this forum is gone a bit quiet lately?

    alot of our more senior "analysts" seem to be otherwise occupied.

    dont think Fearghal has posted in a while, Ditch neither is there something going on?

    are they all off at some ornithological conference somewhere?


  • #171
    littlebug
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    trebor28 wrote: »
    anyone else think this forum is gone a bit quiet lately?

    It has been quiet.... maybe the good weather has taken people out and away from the internet:pac:
    People come and go for whatever reasons. I'm sure I've been away from boards for months at a time over the years. I can't anymore though because they won't give me holiday pay :(


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  • #172
    Mothman
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    Who'd be at computer when weather is so fine? :D


    Not me....:)


  • #173
    whyulittle
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    Oh when will this stupid weather clear off.

    Today I was out in pleasent sunshine in blue skies, heavy hail, heavy rain, so cold I could see my own breath, and all capped off with thunder and fork lightning!


  • #174
    Mothman
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    So we got May weather in April and now we have April weather :)


  • #175
    johngalway
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    This wind is making everything worse. Showers are turned nasty by it driving them along.


  • #176
    stupidusername
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    Mothman I'm so jealous of your garden. :(


  • #177
    whyulittle
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    Drove Athlone>Galway>Athlone today and spotted something like 5 Kestrels and 2 Sparrowhawks along the way.

    Similar numbers a couple of weeks ago.

    Brilliant! :D


  • #178
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
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    Yes, verges along major roads are an important food source for them.


  • #179
    mgwhelan
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    any one else notice the amount of dead badgers on roads last few weeks.


  • #180
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
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    We're the season where female badgers have given birth and so what you are seeing is possibly the young badgers that have been driven out of the sett and are looking for their own territory, so travelling to new areas and crossing roads in the process.


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  • #181
    whyulittle
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    Kayla Moldy Supernova wrote: »
    Yes, verges along major roads are an important food source for them.

    I know yeah but it's still great actually seeing them!


  • #182
    ppink
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    house sparrow has started popping in through my velux into my bathroom. OH woke up the other day to a singathon going on from on top of my mirror/cabinet:D


  • #183
    littlebug
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    Hailstones :eek: small ones but definitely hailstones!


  • #184
    johngalway
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    littlebug wrote: »
    Hailstones :eek: small ones but definitely hailstones!

    There was a shower of hailstones here last night.


  • #185
    Mothman
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    An update on my swans...a relative disaster. :(
    6 cygnets hatched last week and there are only 2 left:eek:

    Nothing like this has ever happened before. One issue is that they are not nesting on an island like last year and with the lack of rain the past 3 months, their nest is in shallow water. This would allow fox easy access. They were very late nesting this year which hasn't helped.

    I also wonder are there mink...because chicks of Mallard & Moorhen are not lasting long...
    I have just put out a mink trap.

    I feel the Swans are looking to get out of here quick. The male left today, I assume to scout out the route to walk out. They usually leave first week of June, but usually with cygnets much older.


  • #186
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
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    Sounds like Mink problems. :(


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  • #187
    Mothman
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    Mothman wrote: »

    I feel the Swans are looking to get out of here quick. The male left today, I assume to scout out the route to walk out. They usually leave first week of June, but usually with cygnets much older.
    They left this morning with their 2 cygnets. They got to same pond as last year, although via different route and thanks to neighbours cutting a hole in sheep wire (they were really snookered otherwise) to allow them them continue the journey. The cygnets despite their youth seemed well able for the journey.


  • #188
    littlebug
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    Mothman wrote: »
    They left this morning with their 2 cygnets. They got to same pond as last year, although via different route and thanks to neighbours cutting a hole in sheep wire (they were really snookered otherwise) to allow them them continue the journey. The cygnets despite their youth seemed well able for the journey.

    I hope they make it :(
    Nothing in the mink trap?


  • #189
    whyulittle
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    Good weather due Thursday/Friday. :D

    Make the most of it, god knows how long it'll last!


  • #190
    stupidusername
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    I was in stephens green today, I for some reason managed to get really close to loads of birds. there was a thrush only feet away, then there was a male chaffinch mating with a female in the tree right above me, and she flew down to the pond beside me, she was only like 4 feet away from me. :D

    but then, I walked over near a water feature, and noticed a robin standing on the side, she flew off, and then i noticed another in the water, thought he was taking a bath, but then i noticed he was just flapping about. I went over trying to get him out of the water, but fluttered off towards the centre, where he could get out of the water. so i figured he's a baby, and can't fly.

    waited ages, trying to figure out what to do. then a young guy came along and started throwing water at him, but this got him to leave the safety of his little area, got back into the water and i managed to grab a hold of him. i checked for any wounds, but he seemed ok, and put him into the middle of a bush, he started twittering a little, and it seemed to get more distanced so i think he was ok.

    lots of gay mallard sex going on in the park too :pac:

    after talking to bagmagnet about this a little, I'm not sure what the little guy was. he looked like this:
    300px-BabyRobinByTrisha.jpg


  • #191
    littlebug
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    I came across a hen with what I assumed was a mouse in it's gob because of the squealing it was doing. I got closer and the hen dropped it's catch.. a frog! I never knew frogs could squeal like that :eek:


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  • #192
    Mothman
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    You know you can make men squeal like that if you grab them by the.....:o

    And hens do seem to adore frogs :eek:


  • #193
    littlebug
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    Mothman I'll eh... take your word for it :eek:


  • #194
    stupidusername
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    Saw the heron in the basin catching a fish :D


  • #195
    littlebug
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    I just counted 76 apples on my little mini apple tree. It was a fathers day present for my husband 4 or 5 years ago. The most we've ever had on it before is maybe 20 apples... one year there were only a handful. I wonder what was different this year that worked in its favour when I lost so much other stuff in the garden through the winter...


  • #196
    trebor28
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    littlebug wrote: »
    I just counted 76 apples on my little mini apple tree. It was a fathers day present for my husband 4 or 5 years ago. The most we've ever had on it before is maybe 20 apples... one year there were only a handful. I wonder what was different this year that worked in its favour when I lost so much other stuff in the garden through the winter...

    im no expert on apple trees but we have a big one outside.

    obviously if ye only bought it small and it grows more will come on it every year.

    in this instance though i'd say its got to do with the good pril we had this year coinciding with the bloom on the apple tree.
    it must have gotten well polinated during that time and that is why you have so many.

    only problem is, or possible problem is that because there is so many all growing together, they all wont have room so will stay small, especially if the weather doesnt improve.

    old wives tales will tell you that if there is lots of fruit on the trees that it will be a bad winter.
    imo its just that the weather was good around the time the tree bloomed.


  • #197
    littlebug
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    It's a miniature tree so it won't get any taller but will continue to fill out I suppose. It just seems like a particularly big jump this year!

    Yes I suppose the good weather in April would explain it. Would you believe I'd forgotten about that :eek::o now that I'm back to normal ie moaning about the weather :p


  • #198
    trebor28
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    i have several song thrushes in the vicinity all singing thheir hearts out till almost 11 every night.


  • #199
    bogtreader
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    I thought some people might interested in this they have a blog some
    of the events that have happened i think is extraordinary
    www.littleternconservation.blogspot.com


  • #200
    bogtreader
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    littlebug wrote: »
    I just counted 76 apples on my little mini apple tree. It was a fathers day present for my husband 4 or 5 years ago. The most we've ever had on it before is maybe 20 apples
    I went and counted the apples on our miniature apple trees this evening
    we have 63 on one and 74 on the other so littlebug you are still in the
    lead with your crop


  • #201
    ppink
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    trebor28 wrote: »
    i have several song thrushes in the vicinity all singing thheir hearts out till almost 11 every night.


    so do I and it is just fantastic:D
    it was like listening to the rte concert orchestra out there last night:p

    What I find amazing is that they have so many different calls. one of them sits on the tv aeriel and the others then in the trees. he is on the aeriel every single night!


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