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Heron

  • 01-06-2007 5:53am
    #1
    ericl
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    Just seen a heron in my back garden.
    I'm in ballymun, dublin I did'nt know that they came into a built up area like this.
    I've never seen a bird so big.. Is there anywhere around here that i can get some photo's. I've never seen a bird so big.


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  • #2
    crosstownk
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    Herons are relatively common around Dublin, usually close to where there is water. I've seen a few of them at the Dodder in Rathfarnham.

    Pic > http://www.flickr.com/photos/aspender/454402781/
    Untitled Image




  • #3
    r3nu4l
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    They are usually solitary birds except when they congregate to mate, although I have seen at least a dozen together during feeding time at the seal enclosure in Dublin Zoo.

    If you live near a canal or large body of water or even have a fish pond in your garden then chances are you will see a Heron at some stage.


  • #4
    Roen
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    r3nu4l wrote:
    They are usually solitary birds except when they congregate to mate....

    That must be what I saw down in the Connigar in Dungarvan last June, I counted at least 18 in an area smaller than a 5-a-side pitch.
    I started a thread over on the Galway forum about my experiences with one earlier this year. Linky here.


    Anyway, here's a pic I got a couple of summers back.....

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  • #5
    hmboards
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    Do any of your neighbours have ponds in their gardens ? Herons will visit ponds in the hope of catching fish.

    A couple of heron's visit the old Guinness filter lake at Park West near Clondalkin, though not usually at the same time. They are very nervous birds!

    482985277_31933bde5f.jpg


  • #6
    aspender
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    crosstownk wrote:
    Herons are relatively common around Dublin, usually close to where there is water. I've seen a few of them at the Dodder in Rathfarnham.

    Pic > http://www.flickr.com/photos/aspender/454402781/

    Hope you liked the photo :D


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  • #7
    mickjoe
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    Hi Eric, I have seen herons along the Dodder at the bottom of Bushy Park, also one at Firhouse, near to Spawell. I have seen them along the Grand Canal.... and I saw one from the London Bridge, the tide was out and the heron had just caught an Eel and was battering it on some rocks before it swallowed it. It took some time before the eel was subdued and was eaten by the heron. The way that eel twisted and turned you would have thought it was a Python trying to have the Heron. :)


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