Best spots around Dublin?

mystic86

Hi,

Sorry, I couldn't see a thread like this, was hoping there would be a thread like this stickied..

So I recently bought a 300mm lens for my camera and I want to try get some nice shots of animals.

I live in Chapelizod and I've done the deer in the park and been to the zoo, but I want to get a lot more and I was hoping ye could help me 😀

Is there something like a list of hot spots to go to around Dublin for this, and that animals I might expect to see there?

I'd be bus-ing it around, no car.

Thanks everyone 😀

Capercaille

mystic86 wrote: »

Hi,

Sorry, I couldn't see a thread like this, was hoping there would be a thread like this stickied..

So I recently bought a 300mm lens for my camera and I want to try get some nice shots of animals.

I live in Chapelizod and I've done the deer in the park and been to the zoo, but I want to get a lot more and I was hoping ye could help me 😀

Is there something like a list of hot spots to go to around Dublin for this, and that animals I might expect to see there?

I'd be bus-ing it around, no car.

Thanks everyone 😀

Dalkey Island off Dalkey is great for breeding terns at this time of year. Poolbeg is great for waders and gulls. Howth head is great for guillemots, razorbills and kittiwakes now as well.

OpenYourEyes

Blessington Basin has a number of different species of ducks that were released from private collections that would be worth looking at, not to mention species like Mandarin Duck in the ponds in the Phoenix Park. Urban wildlife in the various small parks such as squirrels, gulls, ducks, foxes etc are all worthy of attention too in my opinion. A walk along the pier in Dun Laoghaire will get you seals and small waders like Turnstones, gulls etc.

Others might have different experience, and to a certain extent it depends on the lens and camera in question, but I've always had difficulty in getting properly good photos of waders and seabirds with a 300mm lens, certainly without causing disturbance anyway which I always try to avoid.

Hondo75

Booterstown nature reserve, good seating area or you can snap from the road..

Judgement Day

Hondo75 wrote: »

Booterstown nature reserve, good seating area or you can snap from the road..

Oh, come now, Booterstown 'nature reserve' - a flooded mess with a few Little Egrets sitting on some builders rubble. A sorry indictment of Irish nature conservation and management which An Taisce have presided over since the 1970s.

Hondo75

Well i was out out their last autumn and got some great pictures (will post tomorrow) when you cheer up...