County Louth (formerly Dundalk Bay) local patch. (1 Viewer)

[breffni]

Happy Christmas everyone!

A single twite with a flock of finches on the waste ground opposite Oystercove in Carlingford yesterday..

 

[Peter Phillips]

Happy Christmas everybody!:t:

 

[Gerry o Neill]

waxwing today

A very Happy Christmas to all on the County Louth Bird Forum!!

Waxwing still present on hawtorn bush beside Avenue Road / Tom Bellew Road junction today.

todays pic of avenue road waxwing

 

[Derek Watters]

todays pic of avenue road waxwing

Hi Gerry
Did you use a flash for this photo??
It's amazing looking at these birds, on one of Dundalk's busiest roads just feet away from passing cars and people.

 

[Peter Phillips]

Hi All

Check out January edition of Birdwatch magazine, Peter Phillips gets a mention about his
Amercian sparrow find on cape clear. Its in Nigel Marvins article.

Thanks...fame at last!:king:

 

[Gerry o Neill]

todays pic of avenue road waxwing

Yes.Set on auto ,iso 400,1/60, with canon lens 400mm f5.6.
Here are a few pics from today,dark eye argentatus herring clogher and green wing tag hen harrier cruiestown.

 

[breffni]

Great shots - any comparison shots? Was he biger then the agenteus?

Out briefly around bellurgan and ballymascanlon the sound of gun shots was constant...several shooters in marsh beside bellurgan - after snipe i suppose?

 

[breffni]

20 odd greenland white-fronted geese at lurgangreen yesterday per Enda. It will be interesting to see if they stay and where they go when not at lurgangreen...

 

[Gerry o Neill]

20 odd greenland white-fronted geese at lurgangreen yesterday per Enda. It will be interesting to see if they stay and where they go when not at lurgangreen...

Wing tagged Hen Har on the deck in Cruiestown fields, brambling also seen today.

 

[MargaretM]

Tommy had a Shoveler in the pond at Hermitage today.

 

[frank c]

Has anyone seen Waxwings lately, starting new yearly list tomorrow, Waxwings would make a great start.
A happy and peaceful New Year to you all.

 

[Derek Watters]

Has anyone seen Waxwings lately, starting new yearly list tomorrow, Waxwings would make a great start.
A happy and peaceful New Year to you all.

Hi Frankie
They have been present in the area of the Health Board building that was done up last year, just south of the Barrack Street junction, on the Dundalk Bypass - just a few hundred yards up from the docks.

Due to other duties (Rose, my wife was in labour and wouldn't have appreciated me stopping!:eek! I didn't get a chance to do a full count (2 yesterday and 5 today).
By the way for those interested, Rose had a baby boy, 9lb 1oz and both Mammy and child are fine. Off now back to hospital in Newry to see if we can agree on a name for him! He ruined my chances of getting a last few birds on my list for 2008!

A VERY HAPPY AND BIRD FILLED 2009 TO ALL ON THE FORUM AND THANKS FOR MAKING 2008 SUCH AN ENJOYABLE BIRDING YEAR!!!!! :t:

 

[Enda]

Hi Frankie
They have been present in the area of the Health Board building that was done up last year, just south of the Barrack Street junction, on the Dundalk Bypass - just a few hundred yards up from the docks.

Due to other duties (Rose, my wife was in labour and wouldn't have appreciated me stopping!:eek! I didn't get a chance to do a full count (2 yesterday and 5 today).
By the way for those interested, Rose had a baby boy, 9lb 1oz and both Mammy and child are fine. Off now back to hospital in Newry to see if we can agree on a name for him! He ruined my chances of getting a last few birds on my list for 2008!

A VERY HAPPY AND BIRD FILLED 2009 TO ALL ON THE FORUM AND THANKS FOR MAKING 2008 SUCH AN ENJOYABLE BIRDING YEAR!!!!! :t:

Congratulations Derek & Rose
happy new year to all

 

[breffni]

Congratulations Derek and Rose, what terrific news and i hardly need to wish you both a Happy New Year and what a new beginning to the year!
Thankjs and all the best to everyone for 2009!
Breffni

 

[Peter Phillips]

:eek!:Congratulations! Even less birding for you (and me) in 2009!

 

[MargaretM]

Congratulations to Derek & Rose, great news. Will be waiting on exciting news from Peter and Olivia in the near future!! Happy New Year.

 

[frank c]

Congratulations to Derek and Rose, great news,-----Thanks for the Waxwings Derek.

 

[breffni]

Regarding the woodpecker the story is that it is still in the area but has moved to the garden two doors down past the thatched house - unfortuntely this garden is not accessible from the road.

Regarding the race - as far as i know it stands at 176 [CORRECTION 175] birds each for Gerry and Enda, unless someone else with a higher score pops out of the woodwork - Congrats to both!

I set up a web page here: http://birdslouth.blogspot.com/2009_01_01_archive.html - this is to be a placeholder for events and news - i only expect to undate it once a month with forthcoming events and news.

 

[Gerry o Neill]

Regarding the woodpecker the story is that it is still in the area but has moved to the garden two doors down past the thatched house - unfortuntely this garden is not accessible from the road.

Regarding the race - as far as i know it stands at 176 birds each for Gerry and Enda, unless someone else with a higher score pops out of the woodwork - Congrats to both!

I set up a web page here: http://birdslouth.blogspot.com/2009_01_01_archive.html - this is to be a placeholder for events and news - i only expect to undate it once a month with forthcoming events and news.

Myself and Enda ended up with 175 each for the year .Congratulations to Derek and Rose.I had a look for pecker today did not see him but did hear him pecing at trees at back of the garden a few times and the garden next door had him on the nuts a few times yesterday.A pale b .h. or com gull at Lurgangreen and 2 hen harriers at Cruiestown.

 

[breffni]

I had a look for pecker today did not see him but did hear him pecing at trees at back of the garden a few times and the garden next door had him on the nuts a few times yesterday.

Nice tick to start the year off Gerry!