Some pictures I took recently

Rainbowsend

That looks a lovely place, must put it on my list....thanks!

sineadom

treecreeper I saw again lately, they love the old evergreens in our garden

cscook

Envious of a tree-creeper in your garden! I thought I'd seen one unusually low down a tree in Farmleigh today but it turned out to be a bluetit imitiating a tree creeper .

Olympus E3, 50-200 lens taken at the 200 end (400mm equivalent on a 35mm camera)

1/250, f4, ISO 400


1/100, f4, ISO400

(No Photoshopping ) 1/50, f4, ISO 400


1/30, f4, ISO 400


1/200. f5, ISO 400

Rainbowsend

@ cscook............lovely set of shots particularly like the Mandarin pair, and a stunning mushroom AND a Wood Duck thrown in for good measure!

thyme

@cameramonkey, just like my garden out the back.

Telchak

A heron bothering the penguins in Dublin Zoo:D


Abyssian ground hornbill


And the lowly pigeon

stevensi

And the lowly pigeon


Your pigeon is in fact a Collared Dove!

whyulittle

Golden Plover at Lough Boora

vandriver

untitled-4156 by carl cotter, on Flickr

untitled-4143 by carl cotter, on Flickr
untitled-4181 by carl cotter, on Flickr

untitled-4162 by carl cotter, on Flickr

untitled-4170 by carl cotter, on Flickr

untitled-4166 by carl cotter, on Flickr

vandriver

any idea what bird 2 is?

stevensi

A female Chaffinch i reckon

Bsal

Yeah looks like a female Chaffinch.

FoxyVixen

Can someone ID this for me please. Is it just an ordinary house spider??

The reason I ask is that this guy was absolutely MASSIVE!! Approx. 3cm in length body size. Even my father commented that he was unusually big. He was quite stocky - as spiders go. Not the usual thin sinowy figures that we'd usually associate with house spiders here.

Perhaps he struck lucky where ever his web is and was just full of flies?

swifts need our help!

Looks like Tegenaria - the house spider. On Autumn Watch on BBC they asked for house spider measurements. The largest was 14cm foot tip to foot tip ahhhhhhhh

RonMexico

Some photos that I took earlier in the back garden. New camera so still trying to get it right.

googsy

whyulittle wrote: »

Golden Plover at Lough Boora

Used to get alot of Golden Plovers & Lapwings in a few fields every year near Dublin Airport... once they built the M1 ( the earlier version to the one now ) they all disappeared... miss them around

whyulittle

Loads of Lapwing there too. There were Golden Plover, Lapwing, Curlew, Starlings and Sheep sharing a field when I was leaving.

googsy

whyulittle wrote: »

Loads of Lapwing there too. There were Golden Plover, Lapwing, Curlew, Starlings and Sheep sharing a field when I was leaving.

Large flocks of Lapwings in flight is a great sight to see !

leonvdn

damo86

Found these critters in the stone wall, about 7 in total while rebuilding it. Feel bad for waking them up!

Moved them to the pond so hopefully they'll find another place to sleep.







Damo

whyulittle

Female Whinchat Stonechat

Rainbowsend

WUL....thats so cute!

RonMexico

A few shots from earlier today. If anyone can identify the shrooms/lichen/flowers that would be nice.

whyulittle

Rainbowsend wrote: »

WUL....thats so cute!

They are nice little birds, aren't they? There are a pair of them in the exact same spot every time I pass.

swifts need our help!

Damo I would have put the newts back in to suitable hibernating sites rather than put them back in the pond. Could you create newt hibernation sites in the wall or a log pile beside the wall?

Mark

damo86

swifts need our help! wrote: »

Damo I would have put the newts back in to suitable hibernating sites rather than put them back in the pond. Could you create newt hibernation sites in the wall or a log pile beside the wall?

Mark

Mark,

Yep was thinking off that while researching them online afterwards (they don't spend much time in the pond...just to do their business!) . The wall was very close to the pond anyway and there is plenty of undergrowth stones etc around that area, I hope they'll find a new home soon enough.

thanks for the advice

Damo

swifts need our help!

How do you guys insert photos so they show as a photo?

mgwhelan

when you have your photo uploaded left click to copy the image. then when your wrighting ur post you'll see this
paste it there and it should come up.

RonMexico

Splish splash I was having a bath (On a waterlogged sun lounger):D

Clearpreso

Piggy


Odd goose - 1/320 - f5.6 - ISO250


Fancy Chicken - 1/320 - f5.6 - ISO 400



Jay - 1/320 - f5.6 - ISO100


Sheep - 1/160 - f5.6 - ISO400


Swan, In Bruges! - 1/160 - f4.5 - ISO100


Unidentified flying object on Killiney hill