Some pictures I took recently

splish

Pyramidal Orchid Anacamptis pyramidalis



Common Spotted-orchid Dactylorhiza fuchsii



Common Broomrape Orobanche minor

keps

Liffey- this morning. . Light was very harsh and background very unhelpful

Thargor

Grand Canal somewhere on the Dublin/Kildare border yesterday, no zoom, just a very relaxed family:

YurOK2

Only just found this forum, the rejig of the forum topics etc took me a while to get used to.
The photos in here are unreal! Well done to everyone, brilliant.

splish

Basil Thyme Clinopodium acinos, a plant with a very limited Irish distribution & a Flora Protection Order species.

failinis

Not been on a for while, nice to sit and go through a whole rake of pages of nice pics.

A sparrow/finch hit the window, so I put it in a open box to recover in the garden, checked and it was gone with in the hour. Hopefully it was just in shock and was not too badly injured.

failinis

An Egyptian goose with lovely goslings.







Sorry for all the photo's - I am clearing out my camera today!

stevensi

Hi,

It's a chaffinch and looks like a juvenile bird. If it has left on it's own accord it should be fine. Hopefully it is.

Your duck is actually a goose an Egyptian Goose.

Regards

Bonedigger

It looks like a Chaffinch fledgling.
You would hope it was going to be fine afterwards of course, but I was watching Springwatch this year where the topic of birds crashing into windows came up; apparently they can suffer detached retinas after hitting windows which can be detrimental to their survival thereafter.

failinis

Bonedigger wrote: »

It looks like a Chaffinch fledgling.
You would hope it was going to be fine afterwards of course, but I was watching Springwatch this year where the topic of birds crashing into windows came up; apparently they can suffer detached retinas after hitting windows which can be detrimental to their survival thereafter.

Oh, thats a shame: it happened months ago so if anything happened, the bird is more than likely long gone.

Bonedigger

failinis wrote: »

Oh, thats a shame: it happened months ago so if anything happened, the bird is more than likely long gone.

It doesn't happen in all cases of course, so being an optimist (well, most of the time), I would like to believe it was just fine afterwards!:)

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

Bonedigger wrote: »

It doesn't happen in all cases of course, so being an optimist (well, most of the time), I would like to believe it was just fine afterwards!:)

Having the luxury of several ringed birds in the garden, which makes individual identification easier, I have never had any ongoing problems after a bird, stunned from hitting a window, has recovered.

Bonedigger

Jazlyn Incalculable Yo-yo wrote: »

Having the luxury of several ringed birds in the garden, which makes individual identification easier, I have never had any ongoing problems after a bird, stunned from hitting a window, has recovered.

That's certainly good to hear!
If I can recall correctly from the conversation Chris Packham was having with the expert (who I believe was a Veterinary Surgeon), they concluded that it was probably best that the bird was put out of its misery, which sounded a little over the top to me!! If I can find the clip I'll upload it later.

Edit: The clip I was referring to can be seen in this Springwatch Unsprung episode. At 13:15 into this episode Martin Hughes-Games is speaking to T.V. vet Matt Brash about birds who crash into windows. I'm afraid I got it a bit "arse about face" - the vet suggests that after the bird has been examined and diagnosed with detached retinas then it's probably best that it's put to sleep. By the way, directly after this clip in this episode (at 16:58 onwards) is a hilarious clip by Vic Reeves and Bob Mortimer, where they take the mickey out of the film 'Kes' - I thought it was hilarious anyway!

https://youtu.be/koRrdI9ch8o

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Lucan Demesne today.


One of the regular walkers, seeing me with my camera, told me
'the heron gull' is up on that tree over there:eek:

Anyway here is that 'Heron Gull' - Aka Grey Heron.

vistafinder

Cinnabar Moth Caterpillar
untitled-6487.jpg by Damien, on Flickr

Thousands of them.
untitled-6480.jpg by Damien, on Flickr

Natures weed killer.
untitled-6490.jpg by Damien, on Flickr

keps

Lucan Demesne


Landing on your feet.

Nightforce 65X55

Nightforce 65X55

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YurOK2

The bullfinch is amazing! There is a family of them living in my garden and they are very shy compared to some of the other birds so it's difficult to get a good look at them. I love the colour of them

splish

Small Blue Cupido minimus

Nightforce 65X55

V_Moth

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=96101521&postcount=5673

The butterfly is a Meadow Brown

keps

Lunch


Lunch

dodderangler

Couldn't get a pic in time but just seen a sparrow hawk fly down and grab a starling in car park of macdonalds in kylemore

YurOK2

What cameras do you guys use? The colours come through so well, really bright and true to real life. The few photos of birds in motion are great too, no blurriness.

Nightforce - the first photo of the kingfisher looks like a watercolour painting, really beautiful.

tricky D

YurOK2 wrote: »

What cameras do you guys use? The colours come through so well, really bright and true to real life. The few photos of birds in motion are great too, no blurriness.

Some of the photos have what's called EXIF meta data with all sorts of image/camera info. Others don't as their image hosting strips this data. Have a look for an EXIF viewer plugin for your browser or if you have PhotoShop the info is under File > File Info after you save a copy locally.

YurOK2

tricky D wrote: »

Some of the photos have what's called EXIF meta data with all sorts of image/camera info. Others don't as their image hosting strips this data. Have a look for an EXIF viewer plugin for your browser or if you have PhotoShop the info is under File > File Info after you save a copy locally.

That's a great add-on, never heard of it before, thanks.

keps

dodderangler wrote: »

Couldn't get a pic in time but just seen a sparrow hawk fly down and grab a starling in car park of macdonalds in kylemore

What weight was the starling?
A quarter pounder?

:P

dodderangler

keps wrote: »

What weight was the starling?
A quarter pounder?

:P

More of a nugget size. No dips with it though. I don't think she managed to kill it because she dragged it into a bush and was mobbed by magpies and then it flew off without the starling.