Some pictures I took recently

splish

Blackbird



Pied wagtail



Robin

MajesticDonkey

gzoladz

ThunderCat wrote: »

Yes I handheld the phone but I had the binoculars on a tripod. I never knew you could get an adaptor for this purpose. I must look it up. Thanks for the recommendation.

I got the Carson HookUpzTM on Amazon. It is a bit fiddly at the beginning but it does the job and it gets easier to use as you get used to it. I paid gbp 38.

There are other alternatives but they are a bit pricier.

Misty May

That's a brilliant picture of the old squirrel with his/her walking stick, Keps.

keps

A handsome bird- back garden




BTW she hangs round the garden most of the day -picking up the 'ground seeds' that the others let drop from the feeders and also foraging madly from time to time in the dead leaves

keps

Misty May wrote: »

That's a brilliant picture of the old squirrel with his/her walking stick, Keps.

I think I might just post in on thr Random thread and see how it goes:p

splish

Fungi

Bonedigger

While we're in Fungi appreciation mode Splish,here's a few I spotted over the Christmas break:

Yellow Brain Fungus


Puffball sp.


Bracket Fungus sp.




Any ideas what the Bracket Fungus species is?

keps

Backgarden yesterday: just there for a few minutes eating fallen seeds from feeders - quality not the best as taken through the double glazed windows as I was afraid to open the door and scare him off

Thanks again to OpenYourEyes for the ID - Male Reed Bunting

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Great Tit during a thundery snow shower


Great Tit by vistafind, on Flickr

Coal Tit


Coal Tit by vistafind, on Flickr

Another Great Tit


Great Tit by vistafind, on Flickr

keps

Those snow shots of the Great Tit and Coal Tit are fantastic:)

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keps wrote: »

Those snow shots of the Great Tit and Coal Tit are fantastic:)

Thanks keps I have been waiting a good while to try get some snow shots. I nearly legged it when the thunder and lightening started but it was only a few cracks.

splish

Found 100s of these Herald moths hibernating in a cave along the river Slaney today. Great sight to see. Couldn't believe the heat in the cave, lens kept fogging up.

splish

Sarcoscypha sp from a walk along the Slaney yesterday, either Ruby Elfcup (S. coccinea) or Scarlet Elfcup (S. austriaca).

keps

Again in the back garden today - and had to take this through the sliding door's double glaze( which needs a cleaning)

A small move and he's gone

OpenYourEyes

The below are very much 'snapshots' - taken through a window, camera handheld etc - but I thought they were worth sharing anyway! My dad had dug up a small section of the garden last spring to plant vegetables - it also happened to be one of the parts of the garden I put out birdfeeders because its just outside my bedroom window. Inevitably some seed was falling on the newly overturned soil, but plenty of birds were taking them from the ground and I thought no more about it.

I was gone for the entirity of the summer, and when I got back in August I got a surprise to see a very overgrown patch with several sunflowers of various sizes, and some cereal plants etc, where the seed from the feeders had given rise to full plants! They weren't particularly in my Dads way, so he was happy to let them continue to grow knowing they'd be of value to the birds (and no doubt give me a surprise when I got home!)! As late summer turned to autumn they provided plenty of seed for the garden birds before I put out the feeders again in October! And even now the dead sunflowers add some structural complexity to that part of the garden, with birds using them to stand on and hop to when they're investigating the food in the feeders and on the ground!


So here's a Coal Tit staking its claim to one of the sunflowers - you can see in the sides and background of the photo the other plants that grew from the birdseed earlier in the year!

splish

Cave spider (Meta sp.), most likely Meta menardi.

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splish wrote: »

Cave spider (Meta sp.), most likely Meta menardi.

Excellent shot, havnt seen one of those before. I gave a go at a common house spider (Tegenaria duellica i think) living in the basement carpark a few months back. They make great subjects:

MajesticDonkey

Wandering by Kieran Caplice, on Flickr

keps

OpenYourEyes wrote: »

So here's a Coal Tit staking its claim to one of the sunflowers - you can see in the sides and background of the photo the other plants that grew from the birdseed earlier in the year!

In that last photo it looks as though the Tit is morphing into a sunflower (or vice versa):)

OpenYourEyes

Blue Tit

splish

Golden Saxifrage Chrysosplenium oppositifolium

keps

Back-Garden Today

JosDel

A few photos taken in Phoenix Park today

Female Blackbird by Joe-Delaney, on Flickr

Mandarin by Joe-Delaney, on Flickr

Wood Duck by Joe-Delaney, on Flickr

Blue Tit by Joe-Delaney, on Flickr

Moorhen by Joe-Delaney, on Flickr

Gold Crest by Joe-Delaney, on Flickr

Swan by Joe-Delaney, on Flickr

Mandarin by Joe-Delaney, on Flickr

spookwoman

Long Tailed Tit by Spookwoman, on Flickr

splish

One of several Meadow Buttercups Ranunculus acris in flower along the River Barrow today.

keps

splish wrote: »

One of several Meadow Buttercups Ranunculus acris in flower along the River Barrow today.

Wow Buttercups in January:)

Bonedigger

Snowdrop

Rainbowsend

Has Spring Sprung? by Jenny dot com, on Flickr

splish

Cleavers Galium aparine seedling