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#7322 01-05-2016 5:45pm
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grey heron

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#7323 01-05-2016 6:16pm
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Twice now I have seen a heron being pestered by a crow in mid flight..This time not 20 foot in the air right above me....and twice no camera with me..not even an iphone..:mad:
Someone shoot me please...;)

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#7324 01-05-2016 6:27pm
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@pegasus- I didn't know that could happen until I saw it myself a couple of yrs ago ( when newly arrived here)

See post 3921 here and the replies!

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=90879780

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#7325 01-05-2016 6:32pm
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keps wrote: »

@pegasus- I didn't know that could happen until I saw it myself a couple of yrs ago ( when newly arrived here)

See post 3921 here and the replies!

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=90879780

I think, when walking the dogs and even raining, I will have the camera with me..from now on..Nice capture...

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#7327 01-05-2016 8:07pm
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Tomnafinnogue wood Nightforce? Terrific pics...

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#7328 02-05-2016 2:48pm
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I was surprised to see a party of Brent Geese still on the Boyne this morning. They were on the Baltray side and I was at the Maiden Tower on the Mornington side. Uncropped, a bit of a stretch for my Nikon P510.

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#7329 02-05-2016 2:54pm
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One Kittiwake in Port Oriel, Clogherhead among all the local herring gulls;

He/she was good enough to settle on a nearby post:

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#7330 02-05-2016 10:44pm
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#7332 02-05-2016 10:51pm
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keps wrote: »

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Great shot Keps. I was trying to track and focus on swallow's tonight but they are super fast and very erratic in flight. Hats off to you. That is not an easy photo to get....well done.

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#7333 03-05-2016 8:57am
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Nightforce 65X55 wrote: »

Great shot Keps. I was trying to track and focus on swallow's tonight but they are super fast and very erratic in flight. Hats off to you. That is not an easy photo to get....well done.

I've got probably 1000s of shots of sky and river with no sandmartins in frame!

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#7334 03-05-2016 10:18am
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pegasus1 wrote: »

Twice now I have seen a heron being pestered by a crow in mid flight..This time not 20 foot in the air right above me....and twice no camera with me..not even an iphone..:mad:
Someone shoot me please...;)

When we were running our trout farm here in the BBNP we were constantly visited by Herons trying to come through the heron nets but funnily enough we had 2 pairs of crows that acted as policemen keeping the herons away. In return we made sure the crows were fed.

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#7335 03-05-2016 5:05pm
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today

Blue tit gathering nest material

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#7336 03-05-2016 5:08pm
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It looks to me like a Female Mallard with a male head.....any idea what it really is? maybe a juvenile Male?

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#7337 03-05-2016 5:46pm
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grey wagtail

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#7338 03-05-2016 8:33pm
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savagethegoat wrote: »

It looks to me like a Female Mallard with a male head.....any idea what it really is? maybe a juvenile Male?

domestic duck/mallard hybrid

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#7339 03-05-2016 8:37pm
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sumtings wrote: »

I've got probably 1000s of shots of sky and river with no sandmartins in frame!

Same, lol!!!

I am wondering if there is merit to set up a "swallows/swifts/sand martin in flight" photos thread. It is almost a different category all together.

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#7340 03-05-2016 9:23pm
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gzoladz wrote: »

Same, lol!!!

I am wondering if there is merit to set up a "swallows/swifts/sand martin in flight" photos thread. It is almost a different category all together.

Here's my contribution!

https://flic.kr/p/cAuHQs

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#7341 04-05-2016 9:29am
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Keps Lovely shots, I love blue tits & robins. Presume you use telephoto lens? I think I have a nest in our fire bush but I am afraid of disturbing them, will wait until they fly out looking for food and then try & check it out

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#7342 04-05-2016 11:55am
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LinF wrote: »

Keps Lovely shots, I love blue tits & robins. Presume you use telephoto lens? I think I have a nest in our fire bush but I am afraid of disturbing them, will wait until they fly out looking for food and then try & check it out

If you see birds flying in and out regularly, sometimes with food, then you more than likely do have a nest. It's best not to try and investigate it until later in the year though or you could put it at risk.just keep a close eye on the hedge from a safe distance and you should get a good idea of how the nest is progressing over the season

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#7343 04-05-2016 1:30pm
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LinF wrote: »

Keps Lovely shots, I love blue tits & robins. Presume you use telephoto lens? I think I have a nest in our fire bush but I am afraid of disturbing them, will wait until they fly out looking for food and then try & check it out

Thanks:)
Yes I now nearly all the time use a long (zoom) telephoto lens extended to 600mm - which helps to get 'closer' !

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#7344 04-05-2016 2:18pm
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A strange coincidence!

Earlier in the week we were talking about crows attacking/mobbing a heron.

Well today I saw 2 pigeons having a go at a heron- it took me a sec to realise what was going on.
Two pigeons did 2 'swoops' each before departing the scene.

Just managed to get one pic

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#7345 04-05-2016 2:31pm
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Actually just looking at the pic again.... could it be a female blackbird?

Thought it was a pigeon when looking through the lens

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#7346 04-05-2016 5:16pm
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#7347 04-05-2016 5:41pm
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keps wrote: »

Actually just looking at the pic again.... could it be a female blackbird?

Thought it was a pigeon when looking through the lens

There is such thing as a brown crow...very rare....!!
A friend of mine spotted one..and someone from birdwatch ireland came and met him..

A leucistic crow..
Leucism involves a partial or total absence of pigmentation from plumage.

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#7348 04-05-2016 9:12pm
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keps wrote: »

Actually just looking at the pic again.... could it be a female blackbird?

Thought it was a pigeon when looking through the lens

It does strike me as more Thrush-like alright, was the other bird darker or the same in colour?

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#7349 04-05-2016 9:23pm
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#7350 04-05-2016 9:33pm
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OpenYourEyes wrote: »

It does strike me as more Thrush-like alright, was the other bird darker or the same in colour?

To tell the truth - I don't really know.

I had zoomed in on the heron to take a photo - and I saw it 'duck' as a bird came from the right and I think it raised/snapped its beak to try to injure/deflect the bird.

Then the bird swooped again from the left and that's when I got the shot.

In fact I would not be a good police witness -and while there were 4 swoops in all and I was kinda sure there were 2 birds - it might( on mature reflection) have been only one bird coming from different directions.
I was mainly looking through a 600mm lens.

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Meadow Pipit

Northern Wheatear

Blackcap

Master of disguise (hen Pheasant)

Mallard ducklings

Mistle Thrush

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