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Some Nature Pictures I Took Recently - II (Seasonal Photos)

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  • Registered Users Posts: 770 ✭✭✭NEW WAVE


    Grey Heron fishing
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    Kingfisher
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    Dipper
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  • Registered Users Posts: 104 ✭✭OwlEye


    An early visitor to the garden this morning


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,752 ✭✭✭flyingsnail


    These little guys have moved into the old compost heap, I think they are bank voles.

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  • Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 76,204 Mod ✭✭✭✭New Home


    Absolutely adorable! :)


  • Registered Users Posts: 78,218 ✭✭✭✭Victor


    Spotted in Clondalkin, Dublin. It's interesting that I've seen more foxes (ever) than rabbits and all the foxes I've seen have been in Dublin. Most of the rabbits I've seen were the few weeks I've spent in England.

    Pardon the quality - it was a long shot from the upper deck of a bus.

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  • Registered Users Posts: 2,195 ✭✭✭gzoladz


    Meadow Pipit, Small Tortoiseshell, Redpoll and Treecreeper

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  • Registered Users Posts: 127 ✭✭HoteiMarkii


    These little guys have moved into the old compost heap, I think they are bank voles.

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    Super shots! :)


  • Registered Users Posts: 770 ✭✭✭NEW WAVE


    Treecreeper in flight
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  • Registered Users Posts: 2,195 ✭✭✭gzoladz


    Purple Sandpipers and Cormorant with Kingfisher

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  • Registered Users Posts: 770 ✭✭✭NEW WAVE


    Kingfisher
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  • Registered Users Posts: 770 ✭✭✭NEW WAVE


    Heron catching Trout
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    This heron had a big fight to catch and land this trout which carried on even out of the water.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 9,700 ✭✭✭tricky D


    Trout??


  • Registered Users Posts: 770 ✭✭✭NEW WAVE


    tricky D wrote: »
    Trout??
    I thought trout but a relative with more knowledge of fish said salmon. Local fishmonger said yellow fins Trout.
    I will have to eat humble fish pie, :D

    Thanks tricky D


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 40,061 ✭✭✭✭Harry Palmr


    It's ****e photo but I thought it looked like certain African mammal!

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  • Registered Users Posts: 2,195 ✭✭✭gzoladz


    Male Blackcap

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  • Registered Users Posts: 1,424 ✭✭✭bernard0368


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  • Registered Users Posts: 770 ✭✭✭NEW WAVE


    Dunnock at the bird feeder
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    Grey Wagtail
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  • Registered Users Posts: 1,424 ✭✭✭bernard0368


    Hooded crow with a trout he took from the river.

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  • Registered Users Posts: 770 ✭✭✭NEW WAVE


    Heron catching Lamprey
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  • Registered Users Posts: 104 ✭✭OwlEye


    Great photos, but I suspect that eel is a lamprey.


  • Registered Users Posts: 770 ✭✭✭NEW WAVE


    Thanks OwlEye I`ll take your word and change heading. I have no knowledge of eels or lampreys. This heron normally brings his catch to edge of the waterfall to eat in this case he had a prolonged fight to hold onto his catch. The heron then flew off into the wood with it and came about five minutes later. I assume he had eaten it. I wonder did he kill it first before swallowing ?


  • Registered Users Posts: 359 ✭✭black forest


    Little punk in the plums.:D

    Not quite sure if these are really plums but it sounds good. In reality he is a male eurasian blackcap.


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    :D


  • Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 76,204 Mod ✭✭✭✭New Home


    Figs, not plums. I'm surprised they weren't eaten by the birds or by various insects! And the little bird is just adorable! :)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,385 ✭✭✭ThunderCat


    Hooded crow with a trout he took from the river.

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    Would that trout have been dead already and on the surface perhaps? Didn't know Hoodies could take live fish like an Osprey for example. Also I presume he/she would have carried that to the grass in its beak rather than in its claws?


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,424 ✭✭✭bernard0368


    @ Thundercat, I have no idea if the trout was dead when he took it from the river. I caught him as he was pulling it onto the grass. He was very wet which maybe could be from a struggle?
    However last night I watched a hooded crow fishing minnows with great success at the same spot.
    He was sitting on a stone, every so often immersing his head under the water and pulling a minnow out.
    I have never seen this before myself hopefully I may be lucky to film it.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,385 ✭✭✭ThunderCat


    @ Thundercat, I have no idea if the trout was dead when he took it from the river. I caught him as he was pulling it onto the grass. He was very wet which maybe could be from a struggle?
    However last night I watched a hooded crow fishing minnows with great success at the same spot.
    He was sitting on a stone, every so often immersing his head under the water and pulling a minnow out.
    I have never seen this before myself hopefully I may be lucky to film it.



    Amazing behaviour Bernard, you were lucky to witness that. They continue to impress.


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  • Registered Users Posts: 770 ✭✭✭NEW WAVE


    Reed Bunting
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