gareth2005
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Brilliant photos!!
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County Louth (formerly Dundalk Bay) local patch. (1 Viewer)
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Dony
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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 the same size flying in with the same flock as this year. Haven't noticed it this year but haven't really been looking. They're only around in winter these birds. Thanks in advance. I live pretty near the coast.
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 the same size flying in with the same flock as this year. Haven't noticed it this year but haven't really been looking. They're only around in winter these birds. Thanks in advance. I live pretty near the coast.
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like the second last bird - arctic redpoll? http://www.surfbirds.com/Rarities/ukstoppress-jan0102.html
Dony
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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.
Derek Watters
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Peter, my observations above proved to by correct again, as the waxwings departed Tom Bellew Avenue the following day.
I have searched all previous know locations and other likely areas this past 9 days but have seen nothing. I have no doubt they are probably in some hawtorn bush close to the town - locating it is another issue!
PS Welcome to the forum Dony
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Derek Watters
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Hi all
I ordered several birds books on the internet last week and for some unknown reason I ordered two of the same book. To make matters worse when they arrived yesterday I discovered I already had the two books (albeit with a different cover). :eek!:
Here's the book here http://www.waterstones.com/waterstonesweb/displayProductDetails.do?sku=6106522
Before I send them back, I thought I'd trow it on here and see if anyone was interested in them. RRP is Stg£15.99, but they were on offer when I got them, so I will let them go at what I paid for them - €8.20.
First come first serve!
I ordered several birds books on the internet last week and for some unknown reason I ordered two of the same book. To make matters worse when they arrived yesterday I discovered I already had the two books (albeit with a different cover). :eek!:
Here's the book here http://www.waterstones.com/waterstonesweb/displayProductDetails.do?sku=6106522
Before I send them back, I thought I'd trow it on here and see if anyone was interested in them. RRP is Stg£15.99, but they were on offer when I got them, so I will let them go at what I paid for them - €8.20.
First come first serve!
Redpolls are complicated with several species/sub-species intergrading from brown to very plae like the arctic (The Arctic Redpoll, Carduelis hornemanni (subspecies C. h. hornemanni (Greenland Arctic Redpoll) and C. h. exilipes (Hoary Redpoll)), Common Redpoll, Carduelis flammea (Nominate C. f. flammea (Mealy Redpoll); subspecies C. f. islandica and C. f. rostrata (Greenland Redpoll)), Lesser Redpoll, Carduelis cabaret).
Mealy redpolls have turned up along that coastline fairly regularly in the past and should stand out a bit - photo of one taken at cruisetown here: http://www.birdsireland.com/pages/rare_bird_news/2006/january_photos.html
Dony
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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 greenfinch and tree sparrow.
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Gerry o Neill
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glaucous gull
No sign of glaucous gull at lurgangreen today,150 Greylag in fields behind Iveco garage on the old dublin road /lurgangreen,grass has been cut in these fields.
No sign of glaucous gull at lurgangreen today,150 Greylag in fields behind Iveco garage on the old dublin road /lurgangreen,grass has been cut in these fields.
Peter Phillips
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Well spotted Peter.
As far as I know they were colour ringing Waxwing in Scotland last winter and one turned up in Northern Ireland as far as I can remember.
It might be worth posting this on the Northern Ireland local patch.
Peter, well spotted! Funny looking ring but this should be reported as
left leg
below knee
orange yellow orange
looks like a male
Notes: narrow yellow band over a wider orange band (at the bottom of that page)
here: http://blx1.bto.org/euring/lang/pages/[email protected]
Though it looks like a homemade ring so it may not be in the system....
left leg
below knee
orange yellow orange
looks like a male
Notes: narrow yellow band over a wider orange band (at the bottom of that page)
here: http://blx1.bto.org/euring/lang/pages/[email protected]
Though it looks like a homemade ring so it may not be in the system....
Peter Phillips
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Here is some more info...a few projects in Britan including 3 colours on the one leg. I sent an e mail directing the co-ordinator to this page
http://www.birdguides.com/webzine/article.asp?a=1522
http://www.birdguides.com/webzine/article.asp?a=1522
Peter Phillips
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Gerry o Neill
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A few shots from yesterday at cruiestown.Y.L.Gull at docks today.Photos of 2 buzzards at Cruiestown,greylags at lurgangreen/garage.
