Rare Visitor to Farrankelly Rd

cuddlycavies

Saw a lad up there yesterday with a fancy camera. Was wondering what he was doing.
http://www.irishbirding.com/birds/web/Display/sighting/41307/Roughlegged_Buzzard.html

Valmont

There was a nesting pair of buzzards in Kilruddery estate for many years--the last time I saw them was in 2010.

cuddlycavies

Yep, those are Common Buzzards and are still there. You will see them regularly perched on the lights on the M50 betwen here and Sandyford or soaring over Little Sugerloaf.
This is a Rough Legged Buzzard and is very rare here.

cuddlycavies

Just drove past then. There was about 20 twitchers in the field at SM Morris with cameras and binoculars.He must be still up there.

.243

they are regulars to the corn fields in windgates when the wood pigeon numbers are high in the summer

cotton

.243 wrote: »

they are regulars to the corn fields in windgates when the wood pigeon numbers are high in the summer

Yep, there are 4 of them here all year round.:)

PCPhoto

cotton wrote: »

Yep, there are 4 of them here all year round.:)

the twitchers or the buzzards ?

might pop up sometime and get some photos - if I have the time

cuddlycavies

Always helpful when people read the thread. The Buzzards at Windgates are Common Buzzards and are fairly plentiful in Dublin/Wicklow. The bird that the twitchers are following is a Rough Legged Buzzard and is very rare in Ireland. It migrates to East England annually from Scandanavia but rarely further west.