Some pictures I took recently

whyulittle

Over-exposed, but I like it!

stupidusername

A few from the phoenix park:

dunno what this little guy is.bagmagnet tells me a little grebe.


Hooded crow right above me


Blue tit


Moorhen facepalming


pigeon spreading his wings


Swan being fed by my friend pigeeandswan-feeding man


Gulls (some fighting for the food)


Thought this one was hilarious

Mothman

stupidusername wrote: »

A few from the phoenix park:

dunno what this little guy is.

It's a Little Grebe

whyulittle

stupidusername wrote: »

A few from the phoenix park:


pigeon spreading his wings

Why is that gull sitting on that pigeon?! :P

stupidusername

whyulittle wrote: »

Why is that gull sitting on that pigeon?! :P

ha only noticed that a bit after. was trying to get a nice picture of the pigeon sitting on the railing.

littlebug

something green on my front doorstep on St Patrick's day.



Angle Shades moth caterpillar as far as I can tell but I'm open to correction.

Mothman

littlebug wrote: »

something green on my front doorstep on St Patrick's day.

Angle Shades moth caterpillar as far as I can tell but I'm open to correction.

Yes I think it is Angle Shades

paulusdu

Collared Dove



And a very surprising visitor (apologies about the poor quality of the shot)

V Bull

Hare taken last Tuesday 15th March.

Hearvee

Cardynal

Nice fall of Wheatear into Hook on friday afternoon , upwards of 10 counted.

sables2

Hi Cardynal,
Amazing quality photo's of the Wheatear. Ten!!;)

Roen

Not quite recent but I got a (Northern?) Wheatear a few years ago. Wasn't in the least bit skittish and seemed to have as much fun watching me as I did it.

whyulittle

:eek::D:eek:

Looking out my back window this eveing.....



From the back garden.....



:D

trebor28

nicely caught WUL.

is it a male or female sparrowhawk, always get them mixed up.

whyulittle

irishbirding.com ID'ed it as a female.

In the pics, she was eyeing up the neighbours feeders in a bush. It normally has loads of house sparrows and starlings. A little bit later she popped out of the big tree at the back of the garden along with three pigeons.

Just hope she comes back now!

Bagmagnet

Robin Singing:




Blue Tit:

V Bull

Cormorant in flight


Golden Plovers....I think

trebor28

Mute Swan, sorry about the bad quality. it was about 150 yards away.


Treecreeper


Skylark, i think.



saw some bats flying around our yard light last night. so a grabbed a ladder put it up against the wall under the light and climbed up a bit and waited for them to fly by. was hard considering i only had one hand on the camera, had to use the flash and had to have the shutter half pressed so as to have some chance of getting them in the shot. if i had time i could have set up a set of 500watt lights and then taken better shots of them.

V Bull

Bagmagnet wrote: »

Robin Singing:


Bagmagnet, Dualing Robins as in "Deliverence".....:D:D :rolleyes:

puffinsrock

This is my very first post. Was in Ireland June 2009. Enraptured w/your country.

Traonach

V Bull wrote: »

Golden Plovers....I think

European Golden plover, some are moulting into their summer plumage (Black breast and black faces). Always look out for rare American Golden plover or extremely rare Pacific Golden plover in Golden plover flocks. These "yank" birds will have grey underwings while the European birds have white underwings.

Traonach

trebor28 wrote: »

Skylark, i think.


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Look more like Meadow pipit. Meadow pipit can easily be confused with Skylark though.
Skylarks are a more stout bird similar in size to starling. They also have much thicker bill than meadow pipit which has narrow fine bill. Meadow pipit are the size of a house sparrow but are thinner.
You will often see meadow pipit perched in bushes, however it would be extremely rare to see a skylark doing this.

paulusdu

Some seals on the Liffey
(must be a good sign for the river)



And some Goldfinches in Galway

Bagmagnet

Great Tit:


Greenfinch:

puffinsrock

Wow. Gorgeous photos. Am trying to -slowly- learn your birds. Thanks.

Traonach

Wildflowers from the garden


Marsh marigold


Primrose


Blackthorn

sables2

WOW!!!

whyulittle

Jackdaw taking flight

stupidusername

Some from stephens green today:









she's getting no cuddles...



And some (very bad ones) from my trip to bull island. think I may have missed where they were all meant to be, cause there really weren't too many different birds out there

don't know what any of these are:






I'm guessing these are geese, but don't know


same, all taking off