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Is this a Crane?

  • 14-07-2019 9:57pm
    #1
    Musefan
    Registered Users Posts: 774 ✭✭✭


    Hey,

    This guy(or gal) jumped off a branch into our apartment complex. It’s been hanging around for a day or two, but I can’t spot it in the complex right now. It’s such a big bird, I was wondering if it will be able to get back over the fence (about 4 meters).

    Thanks

    WnQqZCf


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  • #2
    jackboy
    Registered Users Posts: 4,424 ✭✭✭jackboy


    Musefan wrote: »
    Hey,

    This guy(or gal) jumped off a branch into our apartment complex. It’s been hanging around for a day or two, but I can’t spot it in the complex right now. It’s such a big bird, I was wondering if it will be able to get back over the fence (about 4 meters).

    Thanks

    It’s a heron. Well able to fly so can get back over the fence if healthy.


  • #3
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    It's a juvenile Grey Heron and should be fine.


  • #4
    Musefan
    Registered Users Posts: 774 ✭✭✭Musefan


    Thanks a mill! I looked up a herons call and that’s what I’ve been hearing about the place this eve so I deduced he must be around. Unfortunately I’ve just heard a commotion outside that sounded like a heron and a fox. It’s all gone silent now but sounded horrible :(


  • #5
    fryup
    Registered Users Posts: 18,069 ✭✭✭✭fryup


    we don't have cranes in ireland...do we?


  • #6
    Del.Monte
    Registered Users Posts: 12,363 ✭✭✭✭Del.Monte


    fryup wrote: »
    we don't have cranes in ireland...do we?

    Just this type. :)

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  • #7
    jmkennedyie
    Registered Users Posts: 678 ✭✭✭jmkennedyie


    We used to have cranes...but wiped out: https://greennews.ie/cranes-in-ireland-a-new-book-explores-the-little-known-history-of-the-eurasian-crane-in-ireland/

    These days the occasional one flies in from Europe.

    They have started breeding again in UK...so may come back


  • #8
    Eddie B
    Registered Users Posts: 1,974 ✭✭✭Eddie B


    Recon everyone thought HERON the minute they saw the thread title


  • #9
    gzoladz
    Registered Users Posts: 2,196 ✭✭✭gzoladz


    Coincidentally there has been a real crane in Galway for qbout 1 week.


  • #10
    Stigura
    Registered Users Posts: 3,411 ✭✭✭Stigura


    gzoladz wrote: »
    Coincidentally there has been a real crane in Galway for qbout 1 week.


    Thank god I'm a Recovering Twitcher! Taxi to Galway would be a definite, otherwise.

    Missed mine. Feb' 2000, Norfolk :(


  • #11
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    Saw one here in Louth in February and another Oct last year.

    Three or four locations around the country will get them each year, so I didn't assume Heron when I read the thread title.


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  • #12
    corks finest
    Registered Users Posts: 8,628 ✭✭✭corks finest


    Musefan wrote: »
    Hey,

    This guy(or gal) jumped off a branch into our apartment complex. It’s been hanging around for a day or two, but I can’t spot it in the complex right now. It’s such a big bird, I was wondering if it will be able to get back over the fence (about 4 meters).

    Thanks

    WnQqZCf
    Heron


  • #13
    corks finest
    Registered Users Posts: 8,628 ✭✭✭corks finest


    gzoladz wrote: »
    Coincidentally there has been a real crane in Galway for qbout 1 week.
    Building site


  • #14
    Eddie B
    Registered Users Posts: 1,974 ✭✭✭Eddie B


    Andrew Careful Transience wrote: »
    Saw one here in Louth in February and another Oct last year.

    Three or four locations around the country will get them each year, so I didn't assume Heron when I read the thread title.

    Well everyone bar you then :p


  • #15
    baaba maal
    Registered Users Posts: 772 ✭✭✭baaba maal


    Eddie B wrote: »
    Well everyone bar you then :p

    Well I saw one in Kildare a couple of years ago (subsequently seen in 'Bofin a couple of days later) so I don't assume heron either!


  • #16
    Eddie B
    Registered Users Posts: 1,974 ✭✭✭Eddie B


    baaba maal wrote: »
    Well I saw one in Kildare a couple of years ago (subsequently seen in 'Bofin a couple of days later) so I don't assume heron either!

    What I was getting at, is yer average Irish man/woman often say's "i saw a Crane", just like yer average Irish man/woman often says "i saw a weasel". Heard both countless times over the years.


  • #17
    baaba maal
    Registered Users Posts: 772 ✭✭✭baaba maal


    Eddie B wrote: »
    What I was getting at, is yer average Irish man/woman often say's "i saw a Crane", just like yer average Irish man/woman often says "i saw a weasel". Heard both countless times over the years.

    I understand that- I am used to the same thing, hence now that I have seen an actual crane I mentally make the distinction!

    The weasel thing slightly annoys me for some reason- I only ever heard stoats referred to as stoats, and it was only as an adult I heard people referring to weasels here.


  • #18
    Eddie B
    Registered Users Posts: 1,974 ✭✭✭Eddie B


    baaba maal wrote: »
    I understand that- I am used to the same thing, hence now that I have seen an actual crane I mentally make the distinction!

    The weasel thing slightly annoys me for some reason- I only ever heard stoats referred to as stoats, and it was only as an adult I heard people referring to weasels here.

    For me, growing up in the 70's/80's everyone seemed to call them weasel. Most of course wouldnt be wildlife/nature people as such. Just yer average country folk, farmer etc.


  • #19
    Alun
    Registered Users Posts: 21,418 ✭✭✭✭Alun


    Funny, I was going to bring up the stoat vs. weasel thing too, as I'd also heard some Irish people referring to herons as cranes!


  • #20
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    Eddie B wrote: »
    For me, growing up in the 70's/80's everyone seemed to call them weasel. Most of course wouldnt be wildlife/nature people as such. Just yer average country folk, farmer etc.

    In fairness a Stoat is a Weasel while not all Weasels are Stoats. And the Stoat is also called the Short-tailed Weasel.


  • #21
    baaba maal
    Registered Users Posts: 772 ✭✭✭baaba maal


    Andrew Careful Transience wrote: »
    In fairness a Stoat is a Weasel while not all Weasels are Stoats. And the Stoat is also called the Short-tailed Weasel.

    Please don't confuse me!


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  • #22
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    A Weasel is weasely recognised while a stoat is stoately different.


  • #23
    wexandproud
    Registered Users Posts: 1,063 ✭✭✭wexandproud


    Andrew Careful Transience wrote: »
    In fairness a Stoat is a Weasel while not all Weasels are Stoats. And the Stoat is also called the Short-tailed Weasel.

    now your really confusing me .

    anyway something in the back of my mind telling me there was a crane at
    ''ladies island '' a few years ago . The heron is often called a ''crane '' down here or a ''kawchee'' would still be a name used regularly . I believe its a word from the old language ''yola''


  • #24
    magicbastarder
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 48,283 CMod ✭✭✭✭magicbastarder


    wexandproud wrote: »
    now your really confusing me .
    Andrew Careful Transience is a human but not all humans are Andrew Careful Transience.

    i.e. stoats are members of the weasel family, of which there are multiple other species.


  • #25
    wexandproud
    Registered Users Posts: 1,063 ✭✭✭wexandproud


    magicbastarder wrote: »
    Srameen is a human but not all humans are Srameen.

    i.e. stoats are members of the weasel family, of which there are multiple other species.
    it was reference to a post where i said i had seen a weasel and the kind sir educated me by telling me we had no weasel in Ireland . then he went and complicated the whole thing . I hope it was taken in the spirit it was meant , in good fun


  • #26
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    wexandproud wrote: »
    it was reference to a post where i said i had seen a weasel and the kind sir educated me by telling me we had no weasel in Ireland . then he went and complicated the whole thing . I hope it was taken in the spirit it was meant , in good fun

    Fear not, I knew what you meant just as you knew I was I playing with your head.


  • #27
    Scotty #
    Registered Users Posts: 3,767 ✭✭✭Scotty #


    Was out at Clogherhead Harbour yesterday and watched a school(?) of Harbour Porpoises (regular visitors) make their way past. Overheard several people call them dolphins. Didn't have the heart to correct them.


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