Some pictures I took recently

The Hill Billy

BTW - The pics in this thread are amazing! Must pop in more often.

keps

I Spy With My Little Eye

NEW WAVE

keps

Egret near The Dropping Well Pub in Milltown today




Egret



PS - thirsty work taking photos in this heat:)


egret1

AhHaor

Saw the same one up some trees a bit further up towards rathgar.

HOI_0304.NEF by Alan, on Flickr

keps wrote: »

Egret near The Dropping Well Pub in Milltown today




Egret



PS - thirsty work taking photos in this heat:)


egret1

keps

Great to see a cormorant back in Milltown
They have been missing for 4/5 months
Probably headed for sea- local fishermen tell me the fish stock in the area was decimated by the floods that followed the snow falls/and hurricane


Cormorant


( PS C'mon Belgium )

Hotei

keps wrote: »

Great to see a cormorant back in Milltown
They have been missing for 4/5 months
Probably headed for sea- local fishermen tell me the fish stock in the area was decimated by the floods that followed the snow falls/and hurricane


Cormorant


( PS C'mon Belgium )

That's a super shot, keps. In all the years I've been photographing wildlife, I've never managed to get a shot of a Cormorant.
By the way, I drew Belgium in our workplace pool, so yeah, C'mon Belgium!!

keps

egret

NEW WAVE

keps

Will add few more Egret pics to this particular post tomorrow -headin' for bed as I'm tired after playing two full games and extra time and penalties in the second:rolleyes:


not to mention the booze:eek:



Egret on Dodder

Egret fishing

keps

Butterfly

Hotei

keps wrote: »

Butterfly

Nice find, keps! It's a Dark Green Fritillary (Fritileán Dúghlas).

http://www.irishbutterflies.com/dark_green_fritillary_butterfly_of_ireland.html

keps

Took this pic a good bit earlier today and a mile away - but could it be the same?

New Home

The wings look different to me. Stunning, though, both of them!

Hotei

keps wrote: »

Took this pic a good bit earlier today and a mile away - but could it be the same?

Better again, keps! That's a Comma. I've never seen one myself. They've started to migrate in the last decade or so from Britain and the continent into the southern half of this country.

keps

Both pics taken on banks of Dodder- Milltown

keps

Thanks indeed Hotei for that information- you are a font of knowledge

One more of the Fritileán Dúghlas taken same day( Saturday)


Fritileán Dúghlas

keps

Today -Dodder




Grey Heron - Dodder

NEW WAVE

MINK

Was trying to photograph trout in the river with a polarising filter on lens when this guy passed by
Not sure what is in its mouth might be a rat. Trout did not bite

keps

Great pic


But what horrible creatures those mink are:mad:

keps

Today on the Dodder- Milltown




Egret in Flight

Capercaillie

NEW WAVE wrote: »

MINK

Was trying to photograph trout in the river with a polarising filter on lens when this guy passed by
Not sure what is in its mouth might be a rat. Trout did not bite

Get the mink trap out!!!

gzoladz

I finally managed to get a record shot of a Green Woodpecker (Iberian race, in this case). Also Great Spotted Woodpecker, Little Owl and Hoopoe. Galicia, Spain.

NEW WAVE

Buzzard

keps

Hope the pink and red don't clash:eek:

Packhorse Bridge Milltown today

Robin

Seconds after the Robin flew away this Dunnock landed on the same branch

Dunnock

OpenYourEyes

Roseate Tern with two Sprats by Brian, on Flickr

A Roseate Tern with two big sprats in its bill - it's uncommon to see them with more than one fish at a time (less than 1% of instances). It looks to be a good year food-wise for the Terns on the east coast. (picture taken under NPWS license)

TedR

He's behind you !

IMG_2584 by Eamonn Ryan, on Flickr

TedR

Hes behind you number 2!
cheeky starling this time

IMG_2558 by Eamonn Ryan, on Flickr

gzoladz

Some sort of damselfly blue feeding

Hotei

gzoladz wrote: »

Some sort of damselfly blue feeding

A male Variable Damselfly (Coenagrion pulchellum).The black U-shaped mark on segment 2 is usually joined to the black ring below creating a wine glass shape.