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    #1682
    New Home
    Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 76,473 Mod ✭✭✭✭New Home


    If I could publish the photos I have in my head, I'd have a permanent post in National Geographic. But alas...


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    #1683
    Half-cocked
    Registered Users Posts: 4,319 ✭✭✭Half-cocked


    Just watched a Sparrowhawk chasing and mobbing a Hooded Crow. Wonder was the crow threatening the hawks nest?


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    #1684
    WildIreland
    Registered Users Posts: 135 ✭✭WildIreland


    Half-cocked wrote: »
    Just watched a Sparrowhawk chasing and mobbing a Hooded Crow. Wonder was the crow threatening the hawks nest?

    Possibly -- but not necessarily. Corvids and raptors have an uneasy relationship at best and rarely tolerate each other in the immediate vicinity, nest or no nest.

    Hoodies are often the mobsters, rather than the mobbed... so the sprawk may well have been deploying a pre-emptive strike to dissuade aggression from the crow.


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    #1685
    Eddie B
    Registered Users Posts: 1,974 ✭✭✭Eddie B


    KJ wrote: »
    There are pine martens in Slieve Gullion forest which isn't miles away but I assumed pine martens were bigger too. I just wish I had had my phone with me at the time.

    Yes pine marten aint far off the size of a cat, compared to a stoat which is closer to rat size. Being a bit brazin, and standing on its hind legs points at stoat, so I recon you are correct in your I,d.


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    #1686
    Stigura
    Registered Users Posts: 3,413 ✭✭✭Stigura


    :rolleyes: Here we go again!


    https://www.thatsfarming.com/news/coypus-spotted-in-leitrim-species-alert

    And I thought April 1st was tomorrow.


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    #1687
    Eddie B
    Registered Users Posts: 1,974 ✭✭✭Eddie B


    Stigura wrote: »
    :rolleyes: Here we go again!


    https://www.thatsfarming.com/news/coypus-spotted-in-leitrim-species-alert

    And I thought April 1st was tomorrow.

    That's 2017. Same time they were allegedly seen all over the country lol


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    #1688
    Stigura
    Registered Users Posts: 3,413 ✭✭✭Stigura


    :D Damn! You're right, Eddie! (It was a Long night, and I'm not quite tea'd up yet!) It's that bloody Jigsaw, again! I'm normally the first one to check the dates on news reports too.


    (Puts the 220's back in the shed)


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    #1689
    Eddie B
    Registered Users Posts: 1,974 ✭✭✭Eddie B


    Stigura wrote: »
    :D Damn! You're right, Eddie! (It was a Long night, and I'm not quite tea'd up yet!) It's that bloody Jigsaw, again! I'm normally the first one to check the dates on news reports too.


    (Puts the 220's back in the shed)

    Lol!! I recon most of these other sightings are misidentifications. I don't think they've spread too far from the Cork area. Saying that, animals can make good use of rivers to travel good distances in short periods of time


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    #1690
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
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    Eddie B wrote: »
    Lol!! I recon most of these other sightings are misidentifications. I don't think they've spread too far from the Cork area. Saying that, animals can make good use of rivers to travel good distances in short periods of time

    The only valid sightings were those in the Cork area and it seems to have been sorted.

    What gets me is a) how people can mistake native species for improbable foreign species and b) how the media & public run with these stories.


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    #1691
    Eddie B
    Registered Users Posts: 1,974 ✭✭✭Eddie B


    Kayla Moldy Supernova wrote: »
    The only valid sightings were those in the Cork area and it seems to have been sorted.

    What gets me is a) how people can mistake native species for improbable foreign species and b) how the media & public run with these stories.

    Yes it's madness, but the vast majority of the public have little or no knowledge about wildlife in general. Not even our native species. It's sad to see how distant we are from from the nature around us.


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    #1692
    fryup
    Registered Users Posts: 18,069 ✭✭✭✭fryup


    very few insects about?

    bees wasps hoverflies etc...or is it still too early?


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    #1693
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
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    A fair few around here, but it is still early.
    fryup wrote: »
    very few insects about?

    bees wasps hoverflies etc...or is it still too early?


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    #1694
    Kamili
    Registered Users Posts: 2,479 ✭✭✭Kamili


    I've seen a few too, but still early in the season. I've seen quite a good few bumble bees. Saw a lone red admiral over the weekend.

    Have had a blue bottle in the house too.


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    #1695
    Birdnuts
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    Seen a Swallow yesterday while visiting my parents near Kill Village in North Kildare. Poor divil will have it tough for the next few days given the latest forecast:(


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    #1696
    frosty123
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    How about bumble bees are they on the decrease?


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    #1697
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
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    frosty123 wrote: »
    How about bumble bees are they on the decrease?

    Too early to tell this year, Generally their numbers are in decline, although we had unusually high numbers of several species here last year.


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    #1698
    vistafinder
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    Hearing the first Chiffchaffs around here with about a week.


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    #1699
    Bsal
    Registered Users Posts: 1,767 ✭✭✭Bsal


    First sighting of a swallow today near Skerries.


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    #1700
    ZX7R
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    Heard my first yellowhammer last week , rural Kildare Wicklow border.


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    #1701
    Fakediamond
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    Saw my first swallow today, Co.Carlow. I always get a thrill when I see the first one of spring.


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    #1702
    Kamili
    Registered Users Posts: 2,479 ✭✭✭Kamili


    Spent an hour watching lapwing in Kildare yesterday, they really make such a wonderful sound.


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    #1703
    lordgoat
    Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 11,359 Mod ✭✭✭✭lordgoat


    Kamili wrote: »
    Spent an hour watching lapwing in Kildare yesterday, they really make such a wonderful sound.

    Where were these? I'd love to see one. Also just in case, there's a lapwing survey on bioD Ireland website to monitor numbers of lapwings this summer.


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    Kamili
    Registered Users Posts: 2,479 ✭✭✭Kamili


    lordgoat wrote: »
    Where were these? I'd love to see one. Also just in case, there's a lapwing survey on bioD Ireland website to monitor numbers of lapwings this summer.

    PM Sent :)

    I must actually submit the sighting there, meant to do it yesterday.


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    #1705
    ZX7R
    Registered Users Posts: 3,426 ✭✭✭ZX7R


    Pair of lapwings flying around the n7 where the road works are where the big pond is as you drive southbound.
    Lullymore hertage park is a good place to see them out on the board walk I use to work there.


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    #1706
    fryup
    Registered Users Posts: 18,069 ✭✭✭✭fryup


    whats that fine yellow dust about the place?

    is it dandelion pollen?


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    #1707
    Kamili
    Registered Users Posts: 2,479 ✭✭✭Kamili


    It's fine yellow dust blown up from the Sahara desert.


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    #1708
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
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    The St Mark's flies are on the wing today - right on thine for St Mark's day on Thursday.


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    #1709
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
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    fryup wrote: »
    whats that fine yellow dust about the place?

    is it dandelion pollen?

    We had the cars covered in it all weekend here, and that's before the Saharan sand blew in. In our case it's tree pollen and the levels were reported as very high recently.


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    #1710
    fryup
    Registered Users Posts: 18,069 ✭✭✭✭fryup


    ^^^^^^^^^^^

    any particular tree?


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    #1711
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
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    fryup wrote: »
    ^^^^^^^^^^^

    any particular tree?

    Here it was birch and whitebeams, mostly.


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