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County Louth (formerly Dundalk Bay) local patch.
Red Kite I suppose you could say this is unconfirmed but my older brother says he is certain he saw a red kite today along the same stretch of coast as the geese I saw recently heading westwards towards castlecoohill being mobbed by crows. At first he presumed it was a buzzard but all the... -
County Louth (formerly Dundalk Bay) local patch.
Leg ring photo Here's that pic I said I'd try to get. It clearly reads Z7 The goose I saw yesterday had orange rings. Magaret, I'll email that guy and see what he says. -
County Louth (formerly Dundalk Bay) local patch.
Brent Geese Lots of brent geese down the road from me on the beach.(in between termonfeckin&clogherhead). I notice one or two of them have their legs ringed. Managed to see that on one of the geese it has the letter F on its left leg and the letter U on its right leg. Thought this might be of... -
County Louth (formerly Dundalk Bay) local patch.
Just a quick query. Saw a bird last week that I didn't recognise -a raptor. Saw it flying, well actually gliding slowly overhead. It wasn't hovering. All I can say is that it was fair bit bigger than a kestral and it had a wedge shaped pointed wings that were black at the tips when looking from... -
County Louth (formerly Dundalk Bay) local patch.
At this time of year the newly fledged willow warblers look very yellow. Wood warbler has a very distinct delineation between yellow on throat and upper breast and white below. with willow warbler the yellow extends all the way down th breast/belly. A wood warbler would be a good record. Yeah... -
County Louth (formerly Dundalk Bay) local patch.
Have a pair of Wood Warblers in my garden today. I'm trying to get photo but they won't sit still for a second. Actually i'll hold judgement on this till I get photo. -
County Louth (formerly Dundalk Bay) local patch.
This weather is great for throwing up the unusual. Never thought i'd be enjoying a cup of tea whilst looking out the window at this bird. I have this guy feeding in my garden now most days. Poor quality pics I know. -
County Louth (formerly Dundalk Bay) local patch.
Is it just me or has anyone noticed a big jump in buzzard numbers in the last year or two. Great to see I suppose. Where I live(between termonfeckin&clogherhead) they're getting really common. The minute I step out the back door each morning I hear them before I see them. Always 5 or 6 circling... -
County Louth (formerly Dundalk Bay) local patch.
Thanks for that info. What I didn't realise is that in my case the sparrows have laid and are now rearing a brood of their own in the housemartins nest. The cheek of them!! -
County Louth (formerly Dundalk Bay) local patch.
House martins evicted. A few weeks ago I was delighted to see housemartins returning to the apex of my house and repairing/rebuilding their nest from last year -and a fine job they did of it too. All was going well and the female had moved in and I presume she was sitting on the eggs. Then... -
County Louth (formerly Dundalk Bay) local patch.
Urban life! Pic taken through dirty window from top of tholsel building on West St, Drogheda. -
County Louth (formerly Dundalk Bay) local patch.
Finally had a couple of swallows yesterday on Seapoint G.C. Woo hoo! -
County Louth (formerly Dundalk Bay) local patch.
flickr photos ...been taking photos fo wild flowers instead: www.flickr.com/photos/breffni Well done on the pics Breffni. Some real crackers in there! Looked at all 49 pages. Wouldn't mind getting some of my pics onto that site instead of being stuck on a hard drive here! Do you have to down... -
County Louth (formerly Dundalk Bay) local patch.
Had a short eared owl today on Baltray G.C. A first for me! It was hunting in full daylight and not paying a whole lot of attention to myself and a mate. It was no more than 50 yds away and flying very slowly, only 2 or 3 feet above ground before diving down on prey. Lovely to see. Saw it... -
County Louth (formerly Dundalk Bay) local patch.
starlings in bettystown. More footage folks, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N_ohdLERKUQ -
County Louth (formerly Dundalk Bay) local patch.
twite/linnet Ok lads, cheers anyway, but whatever they are I saw very large flock of them last week, couple of hundred I'd say. Haven't seen them since, they usually disappear from the maize fields around this time of year. Btw i'll be posting far better footage of the starlings over the next... -
County Louth (formerly Dundalk Bay) local patch.
Starlings in Bettystown Wo, that didn't work out right. Thought I could imbed a video here. Heres a URL of yesterday evening. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ypSFSd-Szf8 -
County Louth (formerly Dundalk Bay) local patch.
Starlings in Bettystown <object width="480" height="295"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/ypSFSd-Szf8&hl=en&fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed... -
County Louth (formerly Dundalk Bay) local patch.
Heard skylarks for the first time this year, earlier today singing their hearts out from a high! Lovely to hear. -
County Louth (formerly Dundalk Bay) local patch.
Nice job on the nestbox Gareth! Think I might get one but I'd need some techno advive on how to use its images so they can be posted here. Anyway, might need some help on id's for these birds I got today. Not sure what they are but they're probably very common. They're a first for me though... -
County Louth (formerly Dundalk Bay) local patch.
A lot of these on beaulieu lake today, about a dozen males and females. Teal I think... -
County Louth (formerly Dundalk Bay) local patch.
Intriguing! Could've been any of these then I suppose. You could pick it out though in a flash with naked eye as flock flew by.My father even commented on it and he knows nothing about birds. Had a good look at flock(around 40 I suppose) today and didn't see any strange additions to it just... -
County Louth (formerly Dundalk Bay) local patch.
Yeah breffni that really fits the description. Remarkable. Didn't ever get in my scope, just through bins. That arctic redpoll is quite similar in size/shape to twite -so could've been that. Saw regular redpoll last week outside my backdoor feeding on ash tree. Live in termonfeckin/ c-head area. -
County Louth (formerly Dundalk Bay) local patch.
Hi all. New to this. Just wondering what bird this is? Think it might be linnet or twite. It has always baffled me and i'd just like to know for sure. There's always dozens of them flying around my house going to a field that had maize in it. Last year there was always a complete white bird of...