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Some pictures I took recently

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    #6062
    Tiercel Dave
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    A 'Double A' Spider!

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    #6063
    keps
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    #6064
    Nightforce 65X55
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    Tiercel Dave wrote: »
    A 'Double A' Spider!

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    I hope you let him keep the battery.....


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    #6065
    _Tombstone_
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    Nightforce 65X55 wrote: »
    I hope you let him keep the battery.....

    He could keep the remote and the TV if he showed up around here....christ he could have the house!!!:eek:


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    #6066
    pegasus1
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    #6067
    keps
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    Back garden today

    Blue tit with sunflower seed(claws)

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    Coal tit also

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    Nightforce 65X55
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    Nightforce 65X55
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    #6070
    OpenYourEyes
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    keps wrote: »
    Back garden today




    Coal tit also

    Thats a Great Tit. Coal Tits are smaller and have much more dull colours than the greens and yellows the great tits have. Great Tits also have a black 'tie' running down their middle.


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    #6071
    keps
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    OpenYourEyes wrote: »
    Thats a Great Tit. Coal Tits are smaller and have much more dull colours than the greens and yellows the great tits have. Great Tits also have a black 'tie' running down their middle.


    Goodness me! Someone must have switched photos while my back was turned( nudge nudge wink wink)

    Coal tit back garden

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    Nightforce 65X55
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    #6073
    keps
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    A bit of a 'cliché' shot - but thought this guy looked handsome today... Lucan Demesne


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    ....and equally attractive


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    #6074
    Lambsbread
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    I've swapped Dublin for Chicago for a while:

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    #6075
    Capercaillie
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    Lambsbread wrote: »
    I've swapped Dublin for Chicago for a while:
    A juvenile great blue heron


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    Nightforce 65X55
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    #6077
    keps
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    Great tit in back garden


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    Nightforce 65X55
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    #6079
    keps
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    Just below the weir Lucan Demesne today- a load of water released

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    #6080
    keps
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    Chaffinch

    Back garden this evening

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    #6081
    keps
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    Where has all the apple gone? Back Garden - nice light this evening

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    #6082
    Nightforce 65X55
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    Apologies for the Quality of the Merlin and Female Buzzard photos , they were taken at a distance of over 200m and have been heavily cropped, but are usable....

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    These are a bit better....

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    Nightforce 65X55
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    The little Shrew was replaced to exactly the spot I picked him up from on his trail and was back on his way hunting insects....


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    #6084
    emo72
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    never seen a shrew in the wild. hard to see or rare?

    but thanks for posting the pics. now im determined to see one.


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    #6085
    Nightforce 65X55
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    emo72 wrote: »
    never seen a shrew in the wild. hard to see or rare?

    but thanks for posting the pics. now im determined to see one.

    Not rare but very hard to see. They tend to follow tunnels and pathways in long grass and weeds. Apparently they are fairly common. Personally this is only the second one ive seen alive but have found a few dead ones.... They are the Smallest Mammal in Ireland....


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    #6086
    Thargor
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    I see a lot of dead ones when Im cycling in Wicklow.


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    #6087
    Fuzzy Clam
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    I'm in a rural area and would see them when the cats brought them home, usualy alive. No cats now but found a dead one beside the car last week. Probably left there by a neighbours cat.
    I don't think cats find them palatable so they won't eat them after catching them.


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    #6088
    Capercaillie
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    Fuzzy Clam wrote: »
    I'm in a rural area and would see them when the cats brought them home, usualy alive. No cats now but found a dead one beside the car last week. Probably left there by a neighbours cat.
    I don't think cats find them palatable so they won't eat them after catching them.

    My cat used to catch them, put 4 bells on his collar and hasn't caught any that I know of in years now. He never ate them either.


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    #6089
    Keplar240B
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    keps wrote: »
    Where has all the apple gone? Back Garden - nice light this evening
    .......

    I never see them eating apples maybe * is looking at insects or the seeds


    *he/she/gender fluid/cyborg

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    #6090
    Keplar240B
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    Re:shrews

    I see loads of dead ones on forest paths in the hills often fully intact. only seen a life one a couple of times, my dog bit one once and then stopped the shrew crawled off properly did not make it. the dog only took one bite and stopped, normally if hes going for a rat its all in, fight to the finish, it must of been taste of em... maybe

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    The dog shrew fight was over before I could stop it.


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    #6091
    junospider
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    My dog has killed at least a dozen in the last month,they are white toothed shrews,no more pygmies around here.


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