Some pictures I took recently

splish

Can anyone help with an id here? Looking through the book they look like a wood warbler but it says they are a rare summer visitor. Chiffchaff or Willow Warbler perhaps?

V_Moth

splish wrote: »

Can anyone help with an id here? Looking through the book they look like a wood warbler but it says they are a rare summer visitor. Chiffchaff or Willow Warbler perhaps?

Yeah, Wood Warbler is very rare in Ireland. They are also more lemon coloured on the the throat, contrasting with pure white underparts.

My best guess would be Willow Warbler, but the photos don't really show the wing tips which are the best way to identify WillowChiffs from pics. In the field, a handy way to tell the two apart is if the bird dips its tail (somewhat like a wagtail) - if it does this frequently it's a Chiffchaff.

splish

Grypocoris stysi

Rainbowsend

splish wrote: »

Can anyone help with an id here? Looking through the book they look like a wood warbler but it says they are a rare summer visitor. Chiffchaff or Willow Warbler perhaps?

I would opt for Chiffchaff, seems to have darker legs unless that is just shadow, also the tail is short and stubby, Warblers tend to have a slightly longer tail.

Eyepatch

Cabbage white butterflies (Pieris rapae) Category - moth or butterfly - male and female. The male (foreground) has one spot on each wing and the female has two.

splish

Open to correction but I think this is Episyrphus balteatus (marmalade hoverfly).

Eyepatch

blue tit - juvenile?

vandriver

An emperor moth caterpillar (thanks sis!)
Untitled by carl cotter, on Flickr

whyulittle

Spotted this while out today - Giant Tachinid Fly I believe.

denismc

N for Ingar by Denis Mc Carthy, on Flickr

marlin vs

Elephant hawk moth caterpillar.

martic

Lets do the twist

splish

Unknown


10 spot variation?

Orange ladybird larvae?

Unknown

10 spot larvae?

Fruit1985

Some photos from Booterstown Marsh today:

• Great Black-Backed Gull (Juvenille) having some lunch
• Black Headed Gulls
• Black Tailed Godwit I
• Black Tailed Godwit II
• Starling
• Rock Dove
• Baby Mute Swan
• Not too sure? Wren perhaps?
• Bar Tailed Godwit

V_Moth

Fruit1985 wrote: »

Some photos from Booterstown Marsh today:

• Great Black-Backed Gull (Juvenille) having some lunch
• Black Headed Gulls
• Black Tailed Godwit I
• Black Tailed Godwit II
• Starling
• Rock Dove
• Baby Mute Swan
• Not too sure? Wren perhaps?
• Bar Tailed Godwit

I think the first gull may be a juvenile Herring rather than GBB. The latter has a bit more white on the head and the bill should be a bit "chunkier". See here for example.

The mystery one is a Wheatear, while the last godwit is also a Black-tailed. If you look on the back of the bird, the feathering is very plain brown. In Bar-tailed Godwit there is a very contrasting black and white pattern (see here for example).

OpenYourEyes

Mallard Ducklings!

Capercaille

V_Moth wrote: »

I think the first gull may be a juvenile Herring rather than GBB. The latter has a bit more white on the head and the bill should be a bit "chunkier". See here for example.

The mystery one is a Wheatear, while the last godwit is also a Black-tailed. If you look on the back of the bird, the feathering is very plain brown. In Bar-tailed Godwit there is a very contrasting black and white pattern (see here for example).

Juv herring gull I think also. Bill too slender for GBBG and overall shape too delicate. Can be confusing to separate juv Herring gull from juv lesser black backed gull. This bird has the classic juvenile herring gull tertials, oak leaf brown centres with paler edges. The greater coverts have dark and pale barring also.

The Rock Dove is almost certainly a feral pigeon. I don't know of any true Rock doves near booterstown marsh. Almost all Irish Rock dove restricted to remote regions in the West.

splish

Green veined whites

OpenYourEyes

Dunlin in summer plumage

Pie Man

90% sure this is a silver-washed fritillary.

Mothman

Pie Man wrote: »

90% sure this is a silver-washed fritillary.

Make it 100%, both males which has distinctive streaks across forewings.

spookwoman

Bumble bees

Mothman

spookwoman wrote: »

Bumble bees

Ginger thorax(body) and black hairs on abdomen(tail) = Bombus pascuorum
english name Common Carder Bee
Also it's on a Teasel flower

spookwoman

Mothman wrote: »

Ginger thorax(body) and black hairs on abdomen(tail) = Bombus pascuorum
english name Common Carder Bee
Also it's on a Teasle flower

The teasels have taken over the garden full of bumble bees and ladybirds
Just looked out the back window and saw this beauty of a Peacock on the ragworth

thyme

It works!.

MiskyBoyy

Nothing exotic, just some Irish garden birds I snapped a few weeks back:

Mr. Starling



and Mr. Sparrow

MeteoritesEire

anyone tell from this small blurry still from a vid if this is a sparrowhawk?



8 second vid slowed down to 1/4 time here

V_Moth

MeteoritesEire wrote: »

anyone tell from this small blurry still from a vid if this is a sparrowhawk?



8 second vid slowed down to 1/4 time here

Yes - a nice male.

Fries-With-That

spookwoman wrote: »

The teasels have taken over the garden full of bumble bees and ladybirds
Just looked out the back window and saw this beauty of a Peacock on the ragworth

Fantastic picture, what part of the country did you take this.

dodderangler

Has he got something in his claws?
Looked like a rabbit but its a male spar so not a hope its a rabbit. Maybe just the way its freeze framed it looks like something