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SnowyMuckish · 29-11-2022 9:57pm

I think a simple bird feeding station and and chart is all you need. It’s amazing what comes into a garden or small space.

magicbastarder · 10-02-2023 9:52am

the frog chorus began in our garden last night.

Pawwed Rig · 12-02-2023 6:36pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119933615#Comment_119933615

A bird book and a pair of binoculars (don't have to be expensive ones). Identify the different types of crows that are around the place. If you are still interested in a years time you can start buying the good stuff.

Head down to Bull Island or Sandymount. I saw Curlews and Oyster catchers there last Monday.

magicbastarder · 18-02-2023 9:50am

finally have spawn in the pond this morning. and i seem to have accidentally left the pond on 'boil'.

i don't know why the video is so low res, much better quality on my phone.

https://youtu.be/TxoqXg6whXk

magicbastarder · 20-02-2023 11:52am

i don't know where all these have been all year! i count at least 32 in this shot, and plenty more out of shot. our back garden is about 12mx25m. we've a couple of piles of hedge clippings, etc., which would probably be nice and damp, but we don't see them for most of the year, then it's like christmas day mass...

mojesius · 23-02-2023 2:10pm

I think this pair of little yellowhammers hit our conservatory window (together, quite strange). I saw them on the ground, left them a few minutes then put them in a box and wrapped them up a bit. The butterfly was my 5 year old daughter's addition as a gift to make them feel better.

Sadly I think they're gone and we will need a little birdy funeral here for 'Romeo and Juliet'. I loved seeing these two in the garden coming over for their grub everyday :(

magicbastarder · 01-03-2023 10:21am

https://www.rte.ie/news/ireland/2023/0301/1359525-fishers/

looks like wind farms could kinda unintentionally result in quasi marine protected areas?

i suspect the windfarm people would not be happy with bottom trawling in or around their cables.

Birdnuts · 04-03-2023 12:26am

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120300661#Comment_120300661

Not a good idea to put spinning blades of death in prime seabird feeding areas though.....

magicbastarder · 04-03-2023 8:34pm

that's a hell of a stat:

https://twitter.com/tomjwebb/status/1631685106766082049

mojesius · 22-03-2023 11:47pm

To my post above, we did indeed bury Romeo and Juliet. We have a new pair of yellowhammers feeding in our garden now

Bsal · 16-05-2023 12:05am

First fledglings of the year have appeared in the garden, we have 2 Blackbirds and 2 Starlings so far with the Robins due to fledge any day now.

magicbastarder · 16-05-2023 3:41pm

we had a little bird box hanging around the garden for about ten years, not exactly a robust thing, mainly decorative. i had to chop down the escallonia it was hanging from, last year, as it was dying, and it got absent mindedly hung in under a curly hazel, in a much more secluded and less visible spot. seems to have done the trick, there are baby wrens in it now. we've been warned that when they start to fledge, they're like goofy feathery ping pong balls, i know someone who on several occasions had to scoop them out of his house.

Bsal · 29-05-2023 12:26am

BBC Springwatch starts Monday 29th 730pm on BBC2.

magicbastarder · 30-05-2023 6:22pm

michael viney has died, must only be a few months since he finished up his column at the irish times?

https://www.irishtimes.com/life-style/people/2023/05/30/michael-viney-was-an-englishman-who-opened-up-ireland-for-irish-people-writes-fintan-otoole/

magicbastarder · 30-05-2023 7:09pm

I just heard about iolo Williams; he's not appearing on springwatch this year because he had an embolism a few days ago.

Pawwed Rig · 04-06-2023 5:26pm

Found a tree sparrow has nested in the eves of my house. Great excitement in our family.

There seems to be alot of activity with at least 4 adult birds. I am assuming another nest aswell.

magicbastarder · 23-07-2023 10:56am

i see padraic fogarty has left the IWT after they took the decision to edit out his reference to farmers' organisations 'lurching to the far right' from his blog. this will be difficult for the IWT - he's very much the public face for them.

https://twitter.com/whittledaway/status/1683040346740072448

mojesius · 14-12-2023 9:28am

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Haven't seen yellowhammers a lot recently coming to feed in my garden but got a lovely surprise today to see a new pair. I missed them around. They are lovely.

magicbastarder · 01-04-2024 8:50pm

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odyssey06 · 01-04-2024 8:59pm

I blame Game of Thrones, time was when every kid wanted a dire wolf as a pet… once they started eating the neighbours they were released into the wild and now there is a feral population.

SnowyMuckish · 04-04-2024 10:05pm

Noticing the first few bees of the year this week in the NW. Does the heart good to see them emerging.

Brief_Lives · 06-04-2024 2:47pm

Hi All, new to the forum.

I can see lots of birds having difficulties today, Storm Kathleen. Some birds hopping from their nests, in very windy weather. Are these the mostl;y hatchlings?

would they still be in their nests in April?

What kind of damage are done to bird numbers during a storm like this, any data? I have googled Storm Isha, but i am not finding the correct phrase to ask.

thanks

SnowyMuckish · 31-05-2024 3:58pm

Well it’s official, the first May over without noticing a single May fly in the house. My abiding childhood memory was of the house being overrun by them every year and sticky traps hung everywhere. How times have changed!

x567 · 09-06-2024 7:43pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122207488#Comment_122207488

There were far fewer here in May than usual; but they were seen in quite big numbers from early April. They might be in for a name-change!

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