Gerry o Neill
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Whitethroat and sedge warbler at Cruiestown today...
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County Louth (formerly Dundalk Bay) local patch. (1 Viewer)
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Gerry o Neill
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Wheatear,buzzard ,whitethroat all Cruiestown and 1st win.ring billed gull Antrim today.
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Lovely pictures guys......
I have seven Reed Buntings regularly here (know their not so very musical sounds clearly now) and think two Sedge Warblers or some sort of warblers two days ago. Listening to sounds of birds and realising it really helps in learning to identify them correctly.
I have seven Reed Buntings regularly here (know their not so very musical sounds clearly now) and think two Sedge Warblers or some sort of warblers two days ago. Listening to sounds of birds and realising it really helps in learning to identify them correctly.
Derek Watters
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At long last (6 days later than last year) the first of the "resident" swifts in Dundalk has returned this evening to the Parnell Park colony.
Very quiet today - stiff westerly is holding everything down.
(crappy vid of some of the wags at shelling hill last week: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rbgi6WQdwaQ)
(crappy vid of some of the wags at shelling hill last week: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rbgi6WQdwaQ)
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Peter Phillips
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Dispite the wind I had a successful couple of hours at Dundalk this afternoon. Adult Spotted Redshank at the Dundalk Docks. Pink footed Goose at Lurgangreen and a Carrion Crow x Hooded Crow hybrid at Seabank. Good numbers of Grey Plover(40) Dunlin (200) and Black tailed Godwits (200) in the bay.
For those who may be interested, the fence was erected at Baltray beach yesterday in preperation of the little tern nesting season, details here: http://www.louthnaturetrust.org - as always volunteers are very welcome!
A couple of hours in my local local patch turned up sedge warbler, short eared owl and a flock of 200 greenland white fronted geese, all "garden ticks". Also a whitethroat in song, 420 dunlin, 70 turnstone, dozens of arctic/common terns, 2 wheatears and a white wagtail...
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Little Tern Conservation Project 2009
In excess of 30 Little Terns seen at Baltray at the week-end. The fence was erected on Saturday though it is not yet complete. Courtship displaying by the Little Terns going on in the enclosure.
Still quite a few Brent Geese around the Boyne area. The week before last I counted 200 at the mouth of the Boyne. A flock of 50 flew over when I was out there yesterday.
In excess of 30 Little Terns seen at Baltray at the week-end. The fence was erected on Saturday though it is not yet complete. Courtship displaying by the Little Terns going on in the enclosure.
Still quite a few Brent Geese around the Boyne area. The week before last I counted 200 at the mouth of the Boyne. A flock of 50 flew over when I was out there yesterday.
gareth2005
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My nestbox cam is still working, the great tit has laid 8 eggs and 2 hatched this morning about 9 O Clock this morning.
Would providing maggots from the Angling shop be of any benefit to the birds or is it a bad idea??
PS I cant get the camera on the net because of a bad internet connect from ICE braodband but changing ISP next week
Would providing maggots from the Angling shop be of any benefit to the birds or is it a bad idea??
PS I cant get the camera on the net because of a bad internet connect from ICE braodband but changing ISP next week
Well done Gareth - you could try the meal worms but i think great tits try to feed their nestlings exclusively on moth larvae for the first few days anyway, but the adults will eat the meal worms....
I had a fairly clean looking carrion crow at carlingford today - also been doing a lot of survey work lately and am amazed at the lack of hares in the cooley area - they are present elsewhere but not in the usual fields around here this year...
I had a fairly clean looking carrion crow at carlingford today - also been doing a lot of survey work lately and am amazed at the lack of hares in the cooley area - they are present elsewhere but not in the usual fields around here this year...
gareth2005
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Thanks Breffni, Hare spotted on Annavernagh last Sunday if any use
I was gardening today and heard this wolf whistling which initialy I thought was someone daft nearby and then slowly realised it was a bird in nextdoors tree. This whistling was just something else, so loud and clear and it stunned me that a bird could manage such a performance. I couldnt see the bird but after a while one went up onto a house roof from the tree and whistling was much more distant so may have been bird. I cannot name it but was a small headed medium sized bird that reminded me of Larks often seen at Omeath shore. Has anyone any idea of birds who could mimick wolf whistling as such? It was not a dark coloured bird.
Gerry o Neill
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gareth2005
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Dolce, It was probably a Starling, they can do great impressions of everyday sounds. We had one that mimicked our neighbours alarm siren
