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    #92
    Maudi
    Registered Users Posts: 1,516 ✭✭✭Maudi


    Woofstuff wrote: »
    Leave the rabbits alone for fck sake.

    Fluffy little bunnies.

    Fluffy little "tasty"bunnies


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    #93
    RosieJoe
    Registered Users Posts: 3,492 ✭✭✭RosieJoe


    Woofstuff wrote: »
    Leave the rabbits alone for fck sake.

    Fluffy little bunnies.

    Rats, hairy Japanese backstards


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    #94
    roadtrain
    Registered Users Posts: 2 ✭roadtrain


    i came across a sick buzzard near garden village cuppla weeks ago he stumbled into the ditch. id say the foxes got him in the end


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    #95
    cuddlycavies
    Registered Users Posts: 970 ✭✭✭cuddlycavies


    Hen Harrier and Merlin are visiting the Newcastle reserve at the moment!


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    #96
    cuddlycavies
    Registered Users Posts: 970 ✭✭✭cuddlycavies


    Yesterday a Eurasian Crane in Newcastle (pictured, rare). A lot of Buzzard activity at Farrankelly lately. Sparrowhawks bombing in on the Goldfinches a common enough sight too
    http://www.irishbirding.com/birds/web/Display/sighting/66517/Crane.html


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    #97
    recedite
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,992 ✭✭✭✭recedite


    It would be fantastic if cranes started nesting here. I think there is some theory that they once did, and that is why in some areas people still use the name "crane" for herons.


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    #98
    curtins
    Registered Users Posts: 6 ✭curtins


    Are there still Marsh Harriers in Tacumshin?


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    #99
    cuddlycavies
    Registered Users Posts: 970 ✭✭✭cuddlycavies


    Yes Cranes were native and now extinct. Marsh Harriers? Tacumshin? Wexford ? Not sure! They winter around here quite often.


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    #100
    Huntthe
    Registered Users Posts: 480 ✭✭Huntthe


    Saw a hare on the big sugarloaf, last time I saw one I was a kid.


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    #101
    .243
    Registered Users Posts: 1,256 ✭✭✭.243


    Huntthe wrote: »
    Saw a hare on the big sugarloaf, last time I saw one I was a kid.
    there's a good few around there,normally they're in the cpl of fields on the left as you head up to the carpark


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    #102
    bobwilliams
    Registered Users Posts: 1,050 ✭✭✭bobwilliams


    the buzzards are out today,saw 2 up at Farrankelly,2 in the field beside Glenrow farm.

    On the way back from Arklow this morning saw about 4 or 5 and 2 lovely red kites,1 was huge about 3 miles north of Arklow,think they come down from that forest on the left as ur driving northbound


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    #103
    cuddlycavies
    Registered Users Posts: 970 ✭✭✭cuddlycavies


    A pair of Buzzards has been very busy in the Farrankelly rd area recently. Possibly breeding!


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    #104
    Maudi
    Registered Users Posts: 1,516 ✭✭✭Maudi


    Kites screeching over kilcoole mass path fri..two harbour purposes off st davids rocks wed morning.


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    #105
    IrishDerbyfan
    Registered Users Posts: 36 ✭IrishDerbyfan


    Great to see that Pine Martens are about (Glen of Downs) but sad to one see killed on the road this morning. Looked like a juvenile so obviously breeding there


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    #106
    recedite
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,992 ✭✭✭✭recedite


    IrishDerbyfan wrote: »
    Great to see that Pine Martens are about (Glen of Downs)
    I heard they were spreading eastwards, but I didn't know they were in there.


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    #107
    IrishDerbyfan
    Registered Users Posts: 36 ✭IrishDerbyfan


    They're well established in Wicklow and have been for a long time but didn't know they were in the glen either. Took a photo and sent it to a study group on facebook.


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    #108
    stanley1980
    Registered Users Posts: 227 ✭✭stanley1980


    Just seen this thread...brilliant stuff, very interesting. Wish I knew more about nature/animal identification etc !


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    #109
    bogtreader
    Registered Users Posts: 350 ✭✭bogtreader


    We seen the pine martin yesterday and thought it was a cat thanks for informing us


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    #110
    IrishDerbyfan
    Registered Users Posts: 36 ✭IrishDerbyfan


    wont let me post it here by url but the photo is on Facebook page Irish Red Squirel and Pine Marten project. just look in the posts by others on the lhs of page


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    #111
    psycho-hope
    Registered Users Posts: 7,245 ✭✭✭psycho-hope


    we have a big hedgehog who hangs out under our shed, hes so used to us now he dosent stir when we go near him:)


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    #112
    LEIN
    Registered Users Posts: 9,936 ✭✭✭LEIN


    IrishDerbyfan wrote: »
    wont let me post it here by url but the photo is on Facebook page Irish Red Squirel and Pine Marten project. just look in the posts by others on the lhs of page

    You should be able to post a link. You can't post images until you have 50 or more posts.


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    #113
    Annasopra
    Registered Users Posts: 41,065 ✭✭✭✭Annasopra


    LEIN wrote: »
    You should be able to post a link. You can't post images until you have 50 or more posts.

    New posters cant post links

    It was so much easier to blame it on Them. It was bleakly depressing to think that They were Us. If it was Them, then nothing was anyone's fault. If it was us, what did that make Me? After all, I'm one of Us. I must be. I've certainly never thought of myself as one of Them. No one ever thinks of themselves as one of Them. We're always one of Us. It's Them that do the bad things.

    Terry Pratchet



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    #114
    recedite
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,992 ✭✭✭✭recedite


    Here it is.
    Looks to be in good healthy condition (apart from being dead)


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    #115
    Maudi
    Registered Users Posts: 1,516 ✭✭✭Maudi


    psycho-hope wrote: »
    we have a big hedgehog who hangs out under our shed, hes so used to us now he dosent stir when we go near him:)

    We have one as a permanent guest in our garden..they have such big personalitys.


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    #116
    Maudi
    Registered Users Posts: 1,516 ✭✭✭Maudi


    recedite wrote: »
    Here it is.
    Looks to be in good healthy condition (apart from being dead)

    I saw one exaclty like this last year when I was out early..in the farrankelly rd area..


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    #117
    loyatemu
    Registered Users Posts: 14,928 ✭✭✭✭loyatemu


    recent visitor to Hillside:

    10405475_844257035598663_1969917167669113456_n.jpg?oh=c30874450fe265a977c7c16ef91808ba&oe=5484D50A&__gda__=1422649787_c1884300e82120de55968918a8ea8d2e


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    #118
    FirstIn
    Registered Users Posts: 656 ✭✭✭FirstIn


    Wow. Now that's amazing. Bit of a danger (both ways) to traffic though.


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    #119
    Alun
    Registered Users Posts: 21,464 ✭✭✭✭Alun


    How on earth did he get there? And more importantly, how did he get out again!


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    #120
    loyatemu
    Registered Users Posts: 14,928 ✭✭✭✭loyatemu


    Alun wrote: »
    How on earth did he get there? And more importantly, how did he get out again!

    came down from Coolagad looking for a mate maybe?

    Not sure where he went, I didn't take that picture but my son saw him on the green (we didn't believe him until we saw the pic on facebook).


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    #121
    .243
    Registered Users Posts: 1,256 ✭✭✭.243


    not a good sign for a lone animal of that size and head to be wandering out of his territory


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