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Friday, 30 March 2018

March 2018

A few random shots from the last month or so. Some shots of various Redwings (including one possible Icelandic candidate) which turned up during the recent "Beast from East" cold weather incident which effectively closed down the entire country for four or five days. We had less than 24 hours of snow in Connemara so it really didn't hit us significantly.

Just back form a ten day trip to Taiwan so expect of plenty of shots from there over the next while.

Irish Hare

Oystercatchers

Male Pied Wagtail

Meadow Pipit

Redwing

Redwing (possible Icelandic bird).

Redwing

Thursday, 22 October 2015

Inishmore October 2015 Part One

I just spent a week out on Inishmore, 11th to 17th October. The Arctic Warbler was by far the best bird I had during the week. Otherwise it was pretty quiet with about eight to nine Yellow-browed Warblers, 1 Lapland Bunting and long staying and unseen Reed Warbler being about the best of the lot.
While Inishmore has probably become best known for it's American passerines in recent years that possiblity just wasn't going to happen during my week. Ireland has been stuck in a high pressure system for the last while so if it was going to happen it was going to come from the east. I can't exactly complain about a self found Arctic Warbler I suppose! The high pressure resulted in unseasonably good weather. For the first time ever I didn't have a single drop of rain all week. While the wind never reached gale force it did get a little strong towards the end of the week and first time you could really feel the winter chill in the wind.