Some pictures I took recently

siledee

Hearvee, you're pics are fabulous...wish I could produce something like that.
But can I ask you, please, pretty please, get a pair of scissors, nip out and take that flipping netting off those fatballs.:)

Hearvee

siledee wrote: »

But can I ask you, please, pretty please, get a pair of scissors, nip out and take that flipping netting off those fatballs.:)

Thanks siledee.
I know the issue with the netting (ie birds getting their feet trapped etc), but I thought that was just an issue with hanging the nets directly off a hook/branch/etc?
I make sure to put the balls into a feeder, and as you can see from the pic the birds hang out of the feeder, not the netting itself.

But if I'm in the wrong here, then I'll head out with the scissors this evening!

Bagmagnet

Some activity at our new feeder today:

Greenfinches and a female house sparrow:


House Sparrows:


Some possessive Greenfinches:



Fighting Greenfinches:

V Bull

Kestrel




Great Tit


Goldcrest I think (my first ever)


Bullfinch I think


Very much open to correction on all above.....

Cardynal

Short-Eared Owl at Forgotten corner ( Tacumshin ) , resting up between hunting forays over the dunes.

siledee

Hearvee, you could be right. Its just that I have an aversion to those net thingys so I never risk it. And they can get caught even on proper feeders.
My wee female sparrow(Hopalong) got caught on my peanut feeder (no net) during the snow.Heard the screams,looked and there she was hanging by the leg. Ran for hubby but when we got out she was gone.
Couple of days later this wee sparrow turns up with a splayed foot. We just knew it was her. About 7/10 days later the foot was off leaving the stump. She was always bullied away by the robin and wagtail.
Then she turned up with a bad wing but seemed ok flying.
Then she stopped turning up. We think she didnt survive the cold snap but we still look for her...hoping.

Sorry this probably doesn't belong in this thread but I had to tell Hopalong's story.

trebor28

love is in the air!

trebor28

there was a Siskin about also but the photos came out crap, so not worth posting.

V Bull

Pair of Moorhens

Feargal as Luimneach

Took this photo of a Lesser Whitethroat (asian subspecies) in Drogheda today.

Helium

First time posting images so bear with me please!!
Click on image to enlarge.

Bluetit



Siskin, Greenfinch, Bluetit



Siskin, Housesparrow, Chaffinch



Great tit? Coaltit?

Nice to see siskins back, were plentiful here 3 years ago but severe decline in numbers now.

sables2

These are ALL stunning photos. I LOVE the Kestrel image V Bull. I really like the Short Eared Owl taken by Cardynal...wow!!

Seasoft

@V Bull

Love the Moorhens.

Cardynal

A couple of group shots today.
1 Greenland white-fronted geese on the slobs at Wexford reserve.
2 Curlew rising from a ploughed field at Tacumshin.
3 Over-wintering Coot grazing at Lady's Island.
4 2 male + 1 female Pochard at Lady's island.

Cardynal

Purple Sandpipers at Carne beach.

V Bull

A collage from the Wexford Slobs on Friday. The hare is quite white & patchy.

Cul a cnoic

Juvenile Gull (possibly, correction please) with a starfish for dinner







Sea urchin, lying upside down on the shore

Feargal as Luimneach

Cul a cnoic wrote: »

Juvenile Gull (possibly, correction please) with a starfish for dinner

They look like 2nd winter herring gulls. Note pale panel on inner primaries for bird in second photo. Also full tail band

Rainbowsend

Beautiful little Redpoll visited the garden again today

Feargal as Luimneach

Rainbowend keep the nyjer seed feeders topped up and you'll eventually get flocks of Lesser Redpoll:)

Cul a cnoic

Feargal as Luimneach wrote: »

They look like 2nd winter herring gulls. Note pale panel on inner primaries for bird in second photo. Also full tail band

Thanks Feargal

paulusdu

Went for a nice stroll in Kinvara on saturday

I saw

Curlew



Wigeon



Dunlin(i think, im not sure, because the legs are orange)

Mothman

I put this in Frog thread, but I feel it deserves to be here as well.
One step from my front door, about 20m from the pond.

He looks determined to hold onto his lady

trebor28

had you barry white blaring to entice them up to the house??:D:D:D

Feargal as Luimneach

paulusdu wrote: »

Dunlin(i think, im not sure, because the legs are orange)

It's a Redshank, dunlin are much smaller only the size of a sparrow.

paulusdu

Cheers Feargal, the color of the legs threw me and it was hard to get a sense of scale because he was so far away

Its great to have experts to point me in the right direction

trebor28

heres the two i mentioned in the garden bird survey thread.

sables2

Super, super images Trebor...LOVE bullies!

trebor28

sables2 wrote: »

Super, super images Trebor...LOVE bullies!

thanks sables.

they were outside my window so was able to get up closer than you would normally be able to without disturbing them. have about 40 pics altogether,

Mothman

trebor28 wrote: »

had you barry white blaring to entice them up to the house??:D:D:D

Now look what Barry White atttracted..this in past 30 minutes.