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Some pictures I took recently

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    #9482
    NEW WAVE
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    Dipper


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    #9483
    Tiercel Dave
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    Blue Eyed Grass, East Galway.....

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    #9484
    Tiercel Dave
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    Peacock Caterpillars feasting on Nettles.....

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    #9485
    New Home
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    Tiercel Dave wrote: »
    Blue Eyed Grass, East Galway.....

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    Sisyrinchium?


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    #9486
    Tiercel Dave
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    New Home wrote: »
    Sisyrinchium?

    Sisyrinchium bermudiana.....


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    #9487
    Alun
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    Saw a huge number of these flowering on the top of Kippure a few weeks back. Any idea what they were?

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    #9488
    Ulmus
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    Cuckoo flower, Lady's Smock http://www.wildflowersofireland.net/plant_detail.php?id_flower=81


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    #9489
    Alun
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    Ulmus wrote: »
    Cuckoo flower, Lady's Smock http://www.wildflowersofireland.net/plant_detail.php?id_flower=81
    Thanks, I was convinced it was some kind of Crane's Bill, but the leaves didn't match and looking more carefully it only has 4 petals and not 5!

    Seems like an unusually high and exposed site though to find something that apparently "tends to favour wet habitats such as marshes and damp meadows."


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    #9490
    NEW WAVE
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    Don’t know who was more surprised me or the duck :confused:


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    #9491
    keps
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    29235486868_c5a451219a_b.jpgHeron with trout

    43108077191_671bbab25d_b.jpgSwallowed


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    #9492
    keps
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    I wonder how they got their name haha

    43113533271_68ce0106f7_b.jpgLong Tailed Tit


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    #9493
    gzoladz
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    Young peregrine

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    #9494
    New Home
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    What's wrong with the long tailed tit's eyes? Is it a sign of avian flu?


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    #9495
    keps
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    New Home wrote: »
    What's wrong with the long tailed tit's eyes? Is it a sign of avian flu?



    I think it's just that they are young birds?


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    #9496
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
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    New Home wrote: »
    What's wrong with the long tailed tit's eyes? Is it a sign of avian flu?

    Not a thing wrong. They are always ringed with red - looks swollen but it's the norm.


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    #9497
    New Home
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    Fair enough, thanks - I had the impression they had a duller colour around the eyes. Time to get new glasses, so.

    EDIT: Actually, could the red be a variation, like the different colours in the feathers? Most of the ones I'd seen before seemed to have tan/orange/beige/yellow ring around their eyes, as far as I can remember.


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    #9498
    pegasus1
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    Steady...Easy does it..
    Taken this week on the Saltees

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    #9499
    spookwoman
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    Off the camera trap in the garden. Heard a hedgehog in the garden a few nights ago so set up a feeding station. Had one or 2 again night before and again last night. I think lasts nights is a different one because it arrived earlier looked smaller and was more skittish. The one in this I think may be the regular as its about the same time it arrived the previous night, the other arrived at 1am. Now to find a way to stop the local cats from eating the food.

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    Hotei
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    A male Stonechat in Pollardstown fen this afternoon:

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    #9501
    magicbastarder
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    spookwoman wrote: »
    Now to find a way to stop the local cats from eating the food.
    build a hedgehog box - or a box with an opening big enough for a hog to get into but not a cat.


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    #9502
    keps
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    41322813010_c41a704bbb_b.jpgUpside down- Ltt


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    #9503
    keps
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    Today -along the Dodder




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    #9504
    spookwoman
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    Was right there are 2. Arrived early tonight and was on cat duty till they fed. Will have to sort out a box for them

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    #9505
    keps
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    In flight- today - Dodder



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    43107473182_66984f04d8_b.jpgCormorant


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    #9506
    The Hill Billy
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    Our Hummingbird Hawk-moth is back. Feeding on the lavender in the evening sunshine. He never came last year. (Yeah, I know it is not the same one. :))

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    tabby aspreme
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    This little guy taking refuge in the dogs water dish this morning


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    #9508
    Hotei
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    The Hill Billy wrote: »
    Our Hummingbird Hawk-moth is back. Feeding on the lavender in the evening sunshine. He never came last year. (Yeah, I know it is not the same one. :))

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    That doesn't look like a Hummingbird Hawk-moth to me.
    It looks more like a Silver Y moth, but I could be wrong.


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    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
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    Hotei wrote: »
    That doesn't look like a Hummingbird Hawk-moth to me.
    It looks more like a Silver Y moth, but I could be wrong.

    You are correct.


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    #9510
    NEW WAVE
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    Pair of mute swans


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    #9511
    The Hill Billy
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    Hotei wrote: »
    That doesn't look like a Hummingbird Hawk-moth to me.
    It looks more like a Silver Y moth, but I could be wrong.
    Jazlyn Incalculable Yo-yo wrote: »
    You are correct.

    Thanks folks! We did think that the wing shape & coloration were slightly different. Also a bit smaller than the ones we have had in the garden before.

    Its flight is very similar though. Good to know for future reference.


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