If you have a new account but are having problems posting or verifying your account, please email us on hello@boards.ie for help. Thanks :)

Hello all! Please ensure that you are posting a new thread or question in the appropriate forum. The Feedback forum is overwhelmed with questions that are having to be moved elsewhere. If you need help to verify your account contact hello@boards.ie

Hi all! We have been experiencing an issue on site where threads have been missing the latest postings. The platform host Vanilla are working on this issue. A workaround that has been used by some is to navigate back from 1 to 10+ pages to re-sync the thread and this will then show the latest posts. Thanks, Mike.

Hi there,
There is an issue with role permissions that is being worked on at the moment.
If you are having trouble with access or permissions on regional forums please post here to get access: https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058365403/you-do-not-have-permission-for-that#latest

An interesting few days..... (not dial up friendly)

Mycroft H · 2009-06-18 23:24:54

I went to the mullet in mayo for a few days this week and got a few interesting photos...... The twite is a small brown bird, quite like a linnet but confined to high coastal areas along the west coast, namely mayo and donegal. It is estimated from recent studys that there is only 100 breeding pairs left in ireland This…

19-06-2009 12:24am

#1

Mycroft H

Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,313 ✭✭✭

Join Date: January 2008

Posts: 9065

I went to the mullet in mayo for a few days this week and got a few interesting photos......

The twite is a small brown bird, quite like a linnet but confined to high coastal areas along the west coast, namely mayo and donegal. It is estimated from recent studys that there is only 100 breeding pairs left in ireland

This fellow was preening himself near erris head, at glenlaragh.

..... has a bit of a stretch

..... fluffs up and then flys off

Later in the day, when visiting an abondoned building, we came across a pair of wheatears that were breeding nearby

There real posers

The biggest suprise came that evening, a snowy owl, out by annagh head. A real rarity in ireland. Apologies, these next few photos are'nt the best snowy owl photos but they were a shot that the subject matter was more important then the artistic value of the photo.

Shes looking straight at me, with those bright orange eyes

Crop of the above

As theres area nearby where gulls and terns hatch, a predator wouldnt be tolerated, she was mobbed by a large number of gulls

And then decides to take off

..... up, up

..... and away to find a new roosting spot

Hope you enjoy the set, click on the shots for larger

6