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Some pictures I took recently

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    #2582
    Capercaille
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,077 ✭✭✭Capercaille


    DellyBelly wrote: »
    That's great to see well done on doing this. May be a small patch but if all landowners did the same it would make a big difference. Well done
    Hoping to put in a cow parsely bed (early cover bed) as well. Funds are a bit low though. If with luck I get a corncrake silage won't be cut till September which will give them time to raise two broods.


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    #2583
    swifts need our help!
    Registered Users Posts: 944 ✭✭✭swifts need our help!


    Capercaille wrote: »
    Not the most exciting photo:o
    My new nettle patch on the farm (40 m x 4m). Well rotted farmyard dung embedded with chopped up nettle rhizomes. Will provide an early cover patch which will hopefully attract a corncrake. More early cover patches will be planted in the next couple of weeks.

    RSPB are doing the same on Rathlin island


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    #2584
    whyulittle
    Registered Users Posts: 3,878 ✭✭✭whyulittle


    Checked out Lough Boora for any migrants today, nothing showing up though.

    Sparrowhawk

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    #2585
    OpenYourEyes
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    A Moorhen presenting to a potential mate
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    Brent Geese
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    Cormorant
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    Gadwall pair
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    Shoveler
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    Greenland White-Fronted Geese
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    Pied Wagtail
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    #2586
    OpenYourEyes
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 3,068 Mod ✭✭✭✭OpenYourEyes


    Some pictures of putting rings, collars and satellite trackers on, as well as gathering biometric data from, Greenland White-Fronted Geese recently! It all contributes to regular monitoring and study of their (declining) population, and the trackers will contribute to a phd study based on their movements and behaviours when migrating.

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    Taking a head-length measurement...
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    ...and a wing length measurement...
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    ...and a swab for a DNA sample...
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    The fitting a BTO ring...
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    ...followed by a darvic ring (leg) and neck collar...
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    Then the more fit adult males are fitted with a tracker so their migration movements can be studied...
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    ..which is obviously put on very carefully, making sure its fitted properly and not uncomfortable or in the way for the goose...
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    And when everything has been done, and the geese are ready, they're released again...
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    #2587
    Eyepatch
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,677 ✭✭✭Eyepatch


    Fab pics, OpenYourEyes! Many thanks!


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    #2588
    Capercaille
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    Great work Openyoureyes!:)
    Were there many juvenile whitefronted geese in Ireland this year?


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    #2589
    OpenYourEyes
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    Capercaille wrote: »
    Great work Openyoureyes!:)
    Were there many juvenile whitefronted geese in Ireland this year?

    I can't remember the exact figure but it was one of the worst, if not the worst, year on record for them unfortunately!

    Edit: Just checked it (www.wexfordwildfowlreserve.ie) and it was 4.86%, which is the worst on record!


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    #2590
    Eyepatch
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,677 ✭✭✭Eyepatch


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    Mrs. Pigeon has found a ready food supply! She also has a bird-bath to bathe in, but flew off before I could snap her!


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    #2591
    whyulittle
    Registered Users Posts: 3,878 ✭✭✭whyulittle


    LTT enjoying the sun. And then it started snowing!

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    #2592
    Squeaky the Squirrel
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    That neck collar looks like it limits it's movement??


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    #2593
    OpenYourEyes
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    Squeaky the Squirrel wrote: »
    That neck collar looks like it limits it's movement??

    Must just be the way he looks or is positioned in the pic - I can assure you it doesn't. They have a long neck and the collar is wider than their neck so it doesn't get in the way or won't get caught on anything. There's geese all around the country that have had neck collars on for years that are doing just as well as ones without the neckbands!


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    #2594
    Art Deko
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    #2595
    KJ
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    #2596
    MeteoritesEire
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    nice goldfinch flock
    are they both yellowhammers at the top of feeder?


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    #2597
    mgwhelan
    Registered Users Posts: 328 ✭✭mgwhelan


    MeteoritesEire wrote: »
    nice goldfinch flock
    are they both yellowhammers at the top of feeder?

    They be siskins male right female left :)


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    #2598
    Fruit1985
    Closed Accounts Posts: 234 ✭✭Fruit1985


    All in St. Anne's Park today:


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    #2599
    whyulittle
    Registered Users Posts: 3,878 ✭✭✭whyulittle


    Great shot of the Kestrel.


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    #2600
    emo72
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    whyulittle wrote: »
    Great shot of the Kestrel.

    damn right it is:pac:


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    #2601
    dodderangler
    Registered Users Posts: 9,204 ✭✭✭dodderangler


    Not on Facebook so can't see the kes
    They are beautiful little birds I had one and flew it for short period of time but due to flyi g my Harris I hadn't much time to give to her so I found it best to give her to a fella that had loads of time to fly her and he still does


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    #2602
    Fruit1985
    Closed Accounts Posts: 234 ✭✭Fruit1985


    Thanks for the feedback. @Dodderangler, here and here.


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    #2603
    V Bull
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    Blackcap male in the garden today...

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    #2604
    Eyepatch
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    whyulittle wrote: »
    Great shot of the Kestrel.

    Sure! Have never seen a kestrel before. Many thanks for that, Fruit1985 :D


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    #2605
    spookwoman
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    First ever sighting of a Goldcrest just saw it by pure chance looking out the side window when heading up the stairs
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    #2606
    dodderangler
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    Fruit1985 wrote: »
    Thanks for the feedback. @Dodderangler, here and here.
    great photos
    i didnt need a lens to zoom in on this beauty enjoy
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    and up the dubs :D
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    #2607
    littlebug
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    Some Brent geese at Rusheen bay.

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    #2608
    magnumlady
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    Love is in the air by magnum_lady, on Flickr

    'Love is in the air' Swans at Hazelwood, Sligo during the week


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    #2609
    whyulittle
    Registered Users Posts: 3,878 ✭✭✭whyulittle


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    #2610
    whyulittle
    Registered Users Posts: 3,878 ✭✭✭whyulittle


    I found this pellet at Clara Bog the other day. No bones or fur in it, but full of grit - Red Grouse?

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    #2611
    Art Deko
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