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County Louth (formerly Dundalk Bay) local patch. (5 Viewers)
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I know the pictures are dull and poor but this bird was very close in the garden of course until I tried to photograph it. I felt the tail was far too long for a chaffinch and It looked different. The bird is sideways in second picture and you cannot see the real length of the tail. Just wondering if anyone knows what it might be? I have some long tailed wagtails and it didnt look like those either.
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Just back from visiting my grandaughter again and enjoying catching up....... fabulous picture of the woodpecker.
nialltkeogh
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nialltkeogh
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Got a text from Joe (Kilcoole Little Tern Warden) today saying that they have 16 fledged so far. They lost at least 10 to the weather but found 50 chicks surviving since then.
See Ya,
Niall
We put a new bird box up on the wall of the house early this year and Blue Tits used it successfully. We now have Sparrows using it and their young look almost ready to fledge. Certainly good use made of that box this year. Not sure how many Sparrow chicks there are, but there are at least 2. Seems to be a matter of first to the opening gets fed!
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Checked the "hidden creek" at ballymascanlon yeaterday but no signs of green sands. There was a very showy kingfisher using the sluice gate wall as a perch. Two common sandpipers on the upper part of castletown river and a third sandpiper with a small bill and clean underparts that got away...
In the meantime a few more american shots...
In the meantime a few more american shots...
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So so cute........especially the third picture.
Gerry o Neill
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green sands
2 green sand seen in flight with another wader at ballymac yesterday also one ruff seen.
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The Little Tern Conservation Project in Baltray continues with 20 chicks and 13 eggs. Most of the chicks are close to being fully fledged.
We were delighted that RTE Environment Correspondant Paul Cunningham came out on Saturday and did a piece on the Little Terns which was aired on both the 6pm and 9pm news this evening.
We were delighted that RTE Environment Correspondant Paul Cunningham came out on Saturday and did a piece on the Little Terns which was aired on both the 6pm and 9pm news this evening.
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birdsgalway
Tom Cuffe
Well done and keep up the good work in Louth. I missed the news this evening so thanks to Margarets post and RTE online i got to see the piece on the Little Terns.
http://www.rte.ie/news/2008/0720/6news_av.html?2401018,null,230
http://www.rte.ie/news/2008/0720/6news_av.html?2401018,null,230
Helsinki Birder
Stealth Birder
7 Common sandpipers and an early return eclipse wigeon on the stagrennan polder on friday evening.
Owen
Owen
Thanks Tom and thanks for putting in the link. Seemingly the Sunday 9 o'clock news gets the biggest audience for news for the week so it really was fantastic for the project.
Derek Watters
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Hi Owen
Pardon my ignorance but where is the stagrennan polder??
BTW I had 90 manx shearwater and 25 gannets in 2 hour seawatch at Ballagan Pt on Sunday evening.
Also I was in Mullaghattin tonight and heard LEO (adult) calling briefly at 9.15pm (Jenkinstown side). I could not locate it! However, when I left at 10.15 a LEO suddenly appeared out of the trees at first bend and flew meters in front of my windscreen for at least 100m before flying off left into the trees. A sight I will not forget!
Helsinki Birder
Stealth Birder
Stagrennan polder is on the marsh road to mornington from drogheda. Turn down as if going to scotch hall, after about 3 kilometers there is a raised bank on your left.
Pull in at the gate and view the mudflat from here.
Good for gulls, waders and duck and a bustling sandmartin colony.
However very tide dependent and can be hit and miss.
Last autumn it played host to at least 10 resident curlew sandpipers and 1 little stint.
Bound to score sooner rather than later.
Owen
Pull in at the gate and view the mudflat from here.
Good for gulls, waders and duck and a bustling sandmartin colony.
However very tide dependent and can be hit and miss.
Last autumn it played host to at least 10 resident curlew sandpipers and 1 little stint.
Bound to score sooner rather than later.
Owen
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Three common sandpipers, a kingfisher and a single green sandpiper (138) at the creek at ballymascanlon yesterday evening. This time the green sand was to the right, just under the new sluice gate. On the way in a cuckoo in the hedgerow. Around the tern roost at cooley point, very few juv terns - out of about 50 sandwitch terns and about the same number of common/arctic there were only four juv sandwich and no juv comic...in previous years there have been dozens of juv terns fishing the area by late July...
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The green sand was aboutthe centre of this map just in front of the barrier seperating the channel from the estuary http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=...0692,-6.367972&spn=0.005219,0.011179&t=h&z=16.
Another juv black guillemot at greenore - the fourth i've seen.
The buzzard was amazingly light coloured, showing what could almost be described as down...
Fulmar is nesting in the castle at carlingford.
Another juv black guillemot at greenore - the fourth i've seen.
The buzzard was amazingly light coloured, showing what could almost be described as down...
Fulmar is nesting in the castle at carlingford.
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