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County Louth (formerly Dundalk Bay) local patch.
This section of BF Opus should help: http://www.birdforum.net/opus/Category:Bird_Songs Or this site: http://www.putni.lv/index_balsis_eng.htm Or this: http://www.rspb.org.uk/wildlife/birdguide/name/t/index.aspx -
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County Louth (formerly Dundalk Bay) local patch.
Yeah, I´d say that´ll work. I did it last year with a big sheet of bubble-wrap from binoculars or scope or something I´d bought. Just taped it onto the window with duct-tape. I reckoned if the bird kept on banging his stupid head off the window, at least the bubble-wrap would stop him hurting... -
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County Louth (formerly Dundalk Bay) local patch.
Have any of you Dundalk folk seen the Long-Billed Dowitcher at Dundalk Docks this winter, or has he gone awol? -
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County Louth (formerly Dundalk Bay) local patch.
Thanks Derek, the anticipation is killing me....a spotty and a pec, and a car-ful of low-priced, low-vat goodies!!! Just don´t tell the Patriotic Police (BTW...any binocular shops in Newry?;)) -
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County Louth (formerly Dundalk Bay) local patch.
Does the Recession mean Nothing to Him? -
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County Louth (formerly Dundalk Bay) local patch.
Thanks, Neal, for the tip on the Spotted Sandpiper. I might try a look on Saturday (might even carry on up to Newry and do a spot of Xmas shopping...even if the government here is telling us it´s "unpatriotic"!!!:C). Has anyone seen the Forster´s Tern at Cruisetown lately? -
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County Louth (formerly Dundalk Bay) local patch.
Belated thanks to Co. Louth birders who gave me advice last winter on Twite in Dundalk area. Finally found them at Soldiers´ Point this month....beautiful birds, congratulations on their favouring your patch! -
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County Louth (formerly Dundalk Bay) local patch.
Isn't a Turlough a lake that sometimes disappears? I think Lough Akeragh is a "now you see it, now you don't" lake, and in some old Bill Oddie book he laments going there to search for rare American waders only to find that the lake had disappeared. As far as I understand, though (which is not... -
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County Louth (formerly Dundalk Bay) local patch.
Do you reckon the Sligo wintering Twite are from Scotland too? Or is there a possibility that there are some still breeding on the Mullet, and that these are wintering on the Sligo coast? Sorry, I´m hijacking your superb thread, back to Louth birding now. Apologies. -
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County Louth (formerly Dundalk Bay) local patch.
Lovely shots, Peter. Thanks for the Twite info, guys....I tried a few years running in the breeding season, to no avail, in the times when they were still reputed to nest around the Cliffs of Moher. The Mullet...hmmm, big Peninsula, small bird.....maybe I'll wait till next year for the first... -
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County Louth (formerly Dundalk Bay) local patch.
Thanks Peter! Waiting yet another year for Twite might just drive me over the edge...;) -
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County Louth (formerly Dundalk Bay) local patch.
Would I be right in assuming that the Twite have left Soldier's Point and Rockmarshall for the season? -
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County Louth (formerly Dundalk Bay) local patch.
Cheers, and Happy New Year to all of you and yours!:t: -
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County Louth (formerly Dundalk Bay) local patch.
Sorry to bore you Louth experts with the same old questions, but some of us in Bray are thinking of going looking for your Twite again, maybe next week sometime. Are they still about? I take it Rockmarshall is Fitzpatrick's Pub, so I guess the places to check are Soldier's Point and there... -
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County Louth (formerly Dundalk Bay) local patch.
Had a great day up your local Patch yesterday, Louth folk, you´re blessed with sites. Yeah, lots of Redwing. Managed to hear but not see a Twite, LB Dow didn´t oblige at the Docks, but we had a great tour round courtesy of Breffni and....We´ll Be Back!!! -
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County Louth (formerly Dundalk Bay) local patch.
Is that Twite and Brambling together under the railway bridge? Or are the Brambling there, and the Twite at Soldier´s Point? As for the few pints....I might well try that method, I´m not doing the driving!:) -
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County Louth (formerly Dundalk Bay) local patch.
Thanks, Derek and Breffni, hopefully they´ll show up on Sunday, we´re going up to have a look, maybe try for the Forster´s too if it´s still about. Looking forward to it, thanks for the constant updates re Co. Louth, we don´t get up there enough. -
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County Louth (formerly Dundalk Bay) local patch.
A question for you Dundalk-based blokes...are Twite fairly regular around Soldier´s Point at this time of year? Thinking of making a trip up this weekend to have a look. Thanks in advance. -
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County Louth (formerly Dundalk Bay) local patch.
Congratulations! Sounds like a great weekend. Siskins were coming out of the woodwork on Cape the previous week, at one point about a hundred arose from the area around Cotter´s, joined together in the sky, and headed northwards, oddly enough, towards the mainland. Don´t know what that was... -
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County Louth (formerly Dundalk Bay) local patch.
Is it greys that are stripping the hazel? On the cape birds, lovely photos Peter, I was down there too last weekend, saw those and a few more, but missed the Dusky too (it showed up in the bog the day I left). I was still delighted with the weekend, though. I'm pretty sure I saw that "mystery... -
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County Louth (formerly Dundalk Bay) local patch.
At a really interesting talk in Glendalough last year, someone who was doing research into squirrels (sorry, can´t remember his name), said Coillte and the like want to cull Greys because they damage young trees (I think they "ring-bark" them, i.e. strip away a section of bark right around the...