Heard this mentioned on RTE this morning and it sounds worth looking in on. As usual RTE were trying to sensationalise the story by emphasising that...
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They must have bought a budget camera - no colour. Boo, hoo!
*JOB VACANCIES - We are now advertising for applications for summer fieldwork jobs protecting and monitoring some of Ireland's most vulnerable birds...
May as well start a photo thread.
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Meet Francis, our pine marten. He may look like a cutie but he spent half of last night and most of this morning testing our windows to see if he can...
A flock of curlews, must have been 50 strong just flew over my field there. Chuffed to see and hear them. I take it these are migratory birds...
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These days I can see (occasionally all together):
2 Robins
Anywhere between 6 and about 16 Goldfinches
About 6 to 10 Bluetits
What I think are about...
I signed up with this crowd a couple of years back: but I rarely get time to read their regular newsletters. However, this morning a piece on what to...
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you might be able to gently encourage the sleepy butterfly out onto the wall or ceiling of an unheated room or building such as a shed, porch, garage...
Only a few so far but the cold weather usually forces them out of mainland Europe. I haven't seen any since c.1972/73 and I have tried, missing them...
Just anecdotally, from my own diaries over the last three years, and there's hardly a Buzzard to be seen, or heard, around Enniscorthy over the last...
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Small farmers on their tractors should watch-out as they have been carried off before by these dangerous birds. Good to hear they are back I still...
Anyone notice it this summer, the amount of spiders webs around the place? They're on my exterior conservatory windows, loads of them in my garden...
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I had to remove alot of little Spider egg nests along my wooden window frames as I was painting last weekend. I hated doing it but it would end up in...
Not every nature lover's cup of tea but where would our Natural History Museum be today without the art of the taxidermist. I had a couple of friends...
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I know two lads that live locally that do or done this work. One does fish, trout being his specialty, and does backgrounds too. The other fella does...
Very impressed with the number of yellow hammers locally in my area this year, considering they are a red listed species. A neighbour of mine had 60...
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Ye all probably knew about this for ages but it was a breakthrough for me. I've been absolutely inundated with House Martin shyte since they arrived...
Another link sent by a friend - wouldn't have believed it if I hadn't seen it. These scarce winter migrants only occur in Ireland when conditions are...
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Just kidding, it's better than my non existent Peregrine video. :mrgreen:
This is probably a question that can't be answered, but I'll ask it anyway.
There is a small stream locally that used to have a lot of minnows...
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My poor father, when I think back on it. We gave him no peace in summer. He'd come in from the factory, have his tea and we'd all sit round with long...
As if the poor bees didn't have enough problems - now Bee-eaters have moved into the UK and breeding is likely. Yet another sign of global warming -...
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