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Some pictures I took recently

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  • Registered Users Posts: 2,200 ✭✭✭gzoladz


    Happy holidays everyone, thanks for the great pictures and knowledge shared.

    Whooper Swan, near Banagher, Co Offaly

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  • Registered Users Posts: 9,324 ✭✭✭keps


    Dodder today -Robin ( no effects - that's the way it was)




    38631904304_6a35543595_b.jpgToday -along the Dodder


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,424 ✭✭✭bernard0368


    Wood duck Bushy park, pity the light was awful.

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  • Registered Users Posts: 1,732 ✭✭✭Capercaillie


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    First 40 nettle sods dug for 2018 nettle sowing season. Nice thick rhizomes, which will provide great cover for corncrake!


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,200 ✭✭✭gzoladz


    Awful record shot in the darkness but pleased to have seen the otter cub in the Dodder today

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  • Registered Users Posts: 9,324 ✭✭✭keps


    Wow - never realised there would be cubs this time of year!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    keps wrote: »
    Wow - never realised there would be cubs this time of year!

    They have no breeding season and can basically have cubs at any time of year.


  • Registered Users Posts: 9,324 ✭✭✭keps


    A bit like humans:cool:


  • Registered Users Posts: 9,324 ✭✭✭keps


    Dodder today - good flow


    39394616031_613287e16e_b.jpgTwo Cormorants


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,424 ✭✭✭bernard0368


    Caught her on St Stephens day.

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  • Registered Users Posts: 9,324 ✭✭✭keps


    Today

    Cormorant on top of the pretty tall Old Dublin Laundry Chimney

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    and later on the river

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  • Registered Users Posts: 9,324 ✭✭✭keps


    Under Packhorse Bridge Milltown

    39436632321_ce8b8e082c_b.jpgGone Fishin'


  • Registered Users Posts: 553 ✭✭✭thyme


    On my way back from topping up the squirrel feeders I could hear the pine martins making a hell of racket in the forest in front of me. It was only when I saw them that I could see what was happening, the mother was chasing the kit and giving it hell when it got it, but the little one got away and dived into a hole under the roots off a tree and the mother couldn't get to it, so she gave up and went away.
    About a half an hour later the kit came up and looked around and slowly pulled itself out of the hole and went off in a different direction to the mother.

    The Mother.
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    The Kit
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  • Registered Users Posts: 13 fishermantolka


    Have yet to see one that close.. if i am taking bird shots i take one and advance closer for next one and so on till it flies off


  • Registered Users Posts: 9,324 ✭✭✭keps




  • Registered Users Posts: 9,324 ✭✭✭keps


    On the ground today:)



    39555588732_81047fb1df_b.jpgcormorant


  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 3,068 Mod ✭✭✭✭OpenYourEyes


    I've had threee Long-tailed Tits making somewhat regular visits to the feeders in the last few days - unusual in both their regularity, and the small size of the group!

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    Long-tailed Tit by Brian, on Flickr

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    Long-tailed Tit by Brian, on Flickr

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    Long-tailed Tit by Brian, on Flickr


  • Registered Users Posts: 9,324 ✭✭✭keps


    Dodder ‘Friends'.


    25732774748_245f609f89_b.jpgStrategic Friends b



    38707303615_65868c3beb_b.jpgA Nice Pair b


  • Registered Users Posts: 553 ✭✭✭thyme


    Some bad trail cam pictures of the Pine Martin mother and kit that took over my attic space last winter :eek:, and did not leave until June last :mad:.

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    And this was the last time the mother entered the attic she left a few minutes later, the kit was already gone it fell out the night before, finally got peace at night :).

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  • Registered Users Posts: 9,324 ✭✭✭keps




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  • Registered Users Posts: 9,324 ✭✭✭keps


    Nice to see a pair of Teal on the Dodder at Milltown yesterday.

    24765857327_8d00826f84_b.jpgTeal


  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 3,068 Mod ✭✭✭✭OpenYourEyes


    A few species from the garden last week. Going through my photos over Christmas and I realised I was lacking many good shots of a lot of the common species out there, so hopefully I can improve on that in 2018!

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    Blue Tit by Brian, on Flickr

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    Blackbird by Brian, on Flickr

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    Blackbird by Brian, on Flickr

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    House Sparrow by Brian, on Flickr

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    Great Tit by Brian, on Flickr

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    Chaffinch by Brian, on Flickr

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    Greenfinch by Brian, on Flickr


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,200 ✭✭✭gzoladz


    keps wrote: »
    Nice to see a pair of Teal on the Dodder at Milltown yesterday.

    24765857327_8d00826f84_b.jpgTeal

    Nice! I have never seen the in the Dodder! They are Ireland's smallest duck.

    And I haven't seen a Mandarin for a while either!


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,170 ✭✭✭wildlifeboy


    gzoladz wrote: »
    Nice! I have never seen the in the Dodder! They are Ireland's smallest duck.

    And I haven't seen a Mandarin for a while either!

    the local takeaways are full of them, nom duck pancakes


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,479 ✭✭✭Kamili


    the local takeaways are full of them, nom duck pancakes

    Mandarins are actually not tasty at all apparently. So nope they are not in local takeaways.


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,200 ✭✭✭gzoladz


    the local takeaways are full of them, nom duck pancakes

    That's why I clarified "in the Dodder" ;)

    Actually, what species are the ones of the local take aways?


  • Registered Users Posts: 9,324 ✭✭✭keps


    Probably Peking Duck - which has more to do with the method of cooking it,rather than the breed of bird


  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 3,068 Mod ✭✭✭✭OpenYourEyes




  • Registered Users Posts: 9,324 ✭✭✭keps


    Dodder, Milltown - yesterday


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    39588513842_d9d8d4ff24_b.jpgGrey Heron - Dodder


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  • Registered Users Posts: 1,897 ✭✭✭Means Of Escape


    A snoozing bird
    What breed is it ?


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