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Autumn in Dublin during Level 3 lockdown. The city centre was quiet and was about to get quieter. What seems to have been lost somewhat in all the pandemic is the ongoing plight of the homeless.
Taken with a Canon A1 and a Yashica Auto Yashinon 5cm f2 lens on Kodak ProImage 100 colour film.
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Established in 1850, Kennedys pub enjoys a long standing reputation as one of the finest watering holes in Dublin. Situated on the corner of Trinity College and steeped in a literary tradition, today’s customers stand where Wilde, Joyce, Beckett and Behan once stood. A young Oscar Wilde once worked in the building when it was a shop, before it became the well known bar it is today.
Taken with a Leica M4-P and Voigtlander Nokton Classic 40mm f1.4 lens on Kodak Ultramax 400 colour film. Developed and scanned by the excellent John Gunn Camera Shop on Wexford Street.
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Iveagh Gardens, Dublin.
Taken with a Leica M4-P and a Voigtlander Nokton Classic 40mm f1.4 lens lens on Kodak Ektar 100 film, and developed and scanned by the good folk in Gunns on Wexford Street.
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Lamp, Dublin.
Taken with a Leica M4-P camera with a Voigtlander Nokton 40mm f1.8 lens on CineStill 400D colour film, and developed and scanned by the good folk in Gunns on Wexford Street.
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Fluffy clouds on a beautiful day.
Taken with a Yashinon Auto 5cm lens on a Canon A1, and with Kodak Portra 160 film.
Shorebirds of Ireland, Freshwater Birds of Ireland and The Birds of Ireland: A Field Guide with Jim Wilson.
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The Grand Canal between Leeson Street bridge and Charlemont bridge is very lush this year. COVID-19, Level 3, June 2021.
Taken with a Leitz Elmar 50mm f2.8 lens on a Leica M4-P camera body, using Kodak C200 (200 ASA) colour film. Developed and scanned by the excellent John Gunn Camera Shop on Wexford Street.
Shorebirds of Ireland, Freshwater Birds of Ireland and The Birds of Ireland: A Field Guide with Jim Wilson.
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The Little Egret (Egretta garzetta) is a small white heron. Until the 1950s, the Little Egret was restricted to southern Europe. Over the next few decades it became increasingly common in western France and later on the north coast. It bred in the Netherlands in 1979 with further breeding in the 1990s.
In Ireland, the species bred for the first time in 1997 at a site in County Cork.
When feeding, the little egret stalks its prey in shallow water, often running with raised wings or shuffling its feet. (wikipedia)
When in flight, it is very easy to see their yellow feet. Taken at Harper's Island Wetland Reserve in Cork Harbour, Ireland.
Shorebirds of Ireland, Freshwater Birds of Ireland and The Birds of Ireland: A Field Guide with Jim Wilson.
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The Ringed Plover is a compact, small wader, similar in size to Dunlin. Grey-brown upperparts and white underparts. Adults with orange bill with black tip in summer, which is mostly black in winter, orange legs, black ring widens as it extends across the chest. White throat and across the back of the neck. Prominent white wing-bar in flight.
In Ireland, it has a resident population but also a migrant winter visitor from areas further north where this population also breeds (Iceland, the Baltic & southern Scandinavia). Peak numbers between August and early October, and then numbers decline slightly (passage birds move further south) and stabilise between November and January.
Mostly coastal breeding distribution, preferring to nest on exposed wide sandy or shingle beaches. Some breed inland, particularly in the west, where their preferred nesting habitat is on short-grazed pasture beside rivers and along lakes. (Birdwatch Ireland)
There were a flock of 83 Ringed Plover roosting along the breakwater of the West Pier of Dun Laoghaire Harbour, Dublin. A very subtle but beautiful bird.
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Walk down the Grand Canal, Phibsborough, Dublin.
Taken with a Leica M4-P and a Carl Zeiss Planar T* f2 50mm lens on Kodak C200 colour film, and developed and scanned by the good folk in Gunns on Wexford Street.
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Reflections along the Grand Canal near Charlemont Bridge, Dublin 2.
Taken with a Leica M4-P and a Leitz Elmar 50mm f2.8 lens on Ilford Delta Plus 400 black and white film. Developed and scanned by the excellent John Gunn Camera Shop on Wexford Street.
a Saturday night in 2006,
From "Cardiff After Dark" book, available on Amazon UK, on amazon .com, worldwide on bookdepository.
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Never tidy.
Taken with a Leica M4-P and Carl Zeiss Planar T* f2 50mm lens on Santa Rae 125 Summer film. Developed and scanned by the excellent John Gunn Camera Shop on Wexford Street.
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The red-breasted merganser (Mergus serrator) is a diving duck, one of the sawbills. They have a spiky crest and long thin red bill with serrated edges. Similar to, but slimmer than Goosander, and bill much finer. Adult males largely white with glossy green-black neck and head. White collar above black-streaked rufous brown breast. Black patch with white spots on the sides of the breast. Upperparts black and flanks grey. Females with dark brown head, with off-white neck, grey body, pale throat patch. Pale lores with dark lines above and below. Juveniles look similar to females, but lack the white collar and have smaller white wing patches.
Fish comprise the major component of the diet, predominantly small cod, hake and plaice. While on freshwater during the breeding season, they feed on roach, trout, salmon, eels and pike. They have also been recorded eating crustaceans and molluscs.
They nest on sheltered lakes and large rivers throughout the west and north of Ireland, though they are largely absent from Clare and a few pairs have been recorded in Wexford. They use a variety of nesting habitats, usually located beside fast-flowing rivers, large and small lakes, also along the coast, on islands and sea-loughs.
The winter exclusively in brackish and marine waters, particularly in shallow protected estuaries and bays and lagoons, and also offshore.
The fastest duck ever recorded was a red-breasted merganser that attained a top airspeed of 100 mph while being pursued by an airplane. This eclipsed the previous speed record held by a canvasback clocked at 72 mph. (wikipedia and BirdWatch Ireland)
This male was swimming and feeding quite close to where I was positioned at Dun Laoghaire Harbour, Dublin at first light. The low blue glow of winter's dawn making photography difficult. A beautiful bird to see close to shore.
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Santry Pizza, Dublin.
Taken with a Leica M4-P and a Carl Zeiss Planar T* f2 50mm lens on Santa Rae 125 black and white film, and developed and scanned by the good folk in Gunns on Wexford Street.
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The Caspian tern (Hydroprogne caspia) is a species of tern, with a subcosmopolitan but scattered distribution. Despite its extensive range, it is monotypic of its genus, and has no accepted subspecies.
It is the world's largest tern with a length of 48–60 cm (19–24 in), a wingspan of 127–145 cm (50–57 in) and a weight of 530–782 g (18.7–27.6 oz). Adult birds have black legs, and a long thick red-orange bill with a small black tip. They have a white head with a black cap and white neck, belly, and tail. The upper wings and back are pale grey; the underwings are pale with dark primary feathers. In-flight, the tail is less forked than other terns, and wingtips are black on the underside. In winter, the black cap is still present (unlike many other terns), but with some white streaking on the forehead. The call is a loud heron-like croak.
Their breeding habitat is large lakes and ocean coasts in North America (including the Great Lakes), and locally in Europe (mainly around the Baltic Sea and Black Sea), Asia, Africa, and Australasia (Australia and New Zealand). European and Asian birds spend the non-breeding season in the Old World tropics.
The global population is about 50,000 pairs; numbers in most regions are stable, but the Baltic Sea population (1400–1475 pairs in the early 1990s) is declining and of conservation concern. (wikipedia)
I was fortunate to be in the right place at the right time when this superb bird flew in from the sea, over my head and circled the lagoon I was walking around while on holidays in Portugal. It had been 12 years since I had last seen the species. Magnificent beasts.
Shorebirds of Ireland, Freshwater Birds of Ireland and The Birds of Ireland: A Field Guide with Jim Wilson.
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The Sedge Warbler (Acrocephalus schoenobaenus) is an Old World warbler in the genus Acrocephalus. It is a medium-sized warbler with a brown, streaked back and wings and a distinct pale supercilium. Sedge Warblers are migratory, crossing the Sahara to get from their European and Asian breeding grounds to spend winter in Africa. The male's song is composed of random chattering phrases and can include mimicry of other species. The Sedge Warbler is mostly insectivorous.
The song is varied, rushed and chattering, with sweeter phrases and some mimicry, typical of the Acrocephalus warblers. It is composed of phrases in random order, so that it is never the same. Male Sedge Warblers which have the widest repertoire mate with the largest number of females.
All Sedge Warblers spend winter in sub-Saharan Africa, from Senegal in the west to Ethiopia in the east, and as far south as the eastern Cape Province of South Africa and northern Namibia. The route taken on the southward migration, and eventual wintering grounds, correspond to the birds' breeding grounds. Birds ringed in the United Kingdom and Netherlands are later found from south-west Iberia to Italy; birds from Sweden are recovered in central Europe and Italy; while Finnish birds are found in north-east Italy and Malta east to the Aegean region. Sedge Warblers from the former Soviet Union take routes via the eastern Mediterranean Sea and Middle East. Loss of wetland areas for feeding on migration, and the expansion of the Sahara desert, pose threats to the Sedge Warbler's breeding population. Birds begin leaving Africa in late February, fatten up at wetlands before and probably after crossing the Sahara, and arrive in Europe from March onwards. (wikipedia)
The reed beds and surrounding hedgerows in the East Coast Nature Reserve, Wicklow, were full of Sedge Warbler. Fantastic to see and hear so many. Taken from the south-facing hide.
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Shorebirds of Ireland, Freshwater Birds of Ireland and The Birds of Ireland: A Field Guide 2nd Edition with Jim Wilson.
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Roe & Co. Distillery along James's Street, The Liberties, Dublin 8.
Taken on a Leica M4-P camera body with a Carl Zeiss Planar T* 50mm f2 lens on Harman Ilford HP2 black and white film. Developed and scanned by the excellent John Gunn Camera Shop on Wexford Street.
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The Common Whitethroat (Sylvia communis) is a common and widespread typical warbler which breeds throughout Europe and across much of temperate western Asia. This small passerine bird is strongly migratory, and winters in tropical Africa, Arabia and Pakistan.
This is one of several Sylvia species that has distinct male and female plumages. Both sexes are mainly brown above and buff below, with chestnut fringes to the secondary remiges. The adult male has a grey head and a white throat. The female lacks the grey head, and the throat is duller. The Whitethroat's song is fast and scratchy, with a scolding tone. The hoarse, a little bit nasal call sounds like wed-wed or woid-woid. The warning cry is long-pulled, rough tschehr.
This is a bird of open country and cultivation, with bushes for nesting. The nest is built in low shrub or brambles. (wikipedia)
A recent Spring arrival in superb breeding plumage. The Whitethroats are a real harbinger of Spring. Fantastic to see. Taken in Blackditch East Coast Nature Reserve in Co. Wicklow.
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The common wood pigeon (Columba palumbus) is a large species in the dove and pigeon family. The three Western European Columba pigeons, common wood pigeon, stock dove, and rock pigeon, though superficially alike, have very distinctive characteristics; the common wood pigeon may be identified at once by its larger size and weight, and the white on its neck and wing. It is otherwise a basically grey bird, with a pinkish breast. Adult birds bear a series of green and white patches on their necks, and a pink patch on their chest.
Juvenile birds do not have the white patches on either side of the neck. When they are about six months old (about three months out of the nest) they gain small white patches on both sides of the neck, which gradually enlarge until they are fully formed when the bird is about 6–8 months old (approx. ages only). Juvenile birds also have a greyer beak and an overall lighter grey appearance than adult birds. The call is a characteristic cooing, coo-COO-coo-coo-coo.
In the colder northern and eastern parts of Europe and western Asia the common woodpigeon is a migrant, but in southern and western Europe it is a well distributed and often abundant resident. In Ireland, woodpigeons are commonly seen in parks and gardens and are seen with increasing numbers in towns and cities.
For birds that survive the first year the typical lifespan is thus only three years, but the maximum recorded age is 17 years and 8 months for a bird ringed and recovered on the Orkney Islands. (wikipedia)
An adult woodpigeon feeding on the freshly emerged grass in Santry Demesne, Dublin.
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Building is still rife in Dublin in 2023. More office blocks and hotels that you could shake a stick at.
Taken with a Canon A1 camera with a Canon FD 50mm f1.8 on Fujicolour (Kodak) 200 film, and developed and scanned by the good folk in Gunns on Wexford Street.
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The iconic red brick chimney at the southeast corner of the administrative block of the former John Player & Sons tobacco factory in the Glasnevin area, Dublin.
Taken with a Leica M4-P and a Carl Zeiss Planar T* f2 50mm lens on Santa Rae 125 black and white film, and developed and scanned by the good folk in Gunns on Wexford Street.
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A meeting at College Green, outside the door to Trinity College.
Taken with a Leica M4-P and Carl Zeiss Planar T* 50mm f2 lens on CineStill XX black and white film, and developed and scanned by the good folk in Gunns on Wexford Street.
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The Grey Heron (Ardea cinerea) is a long-legged predatory wading bird of the heron family, Ardeidae, native throughout temperate Europe and Asia and also parts of Africa. It is resident in much of its range, but some populations from the more northern parts migrate southwards in autumn. A bird of wetland areas, it can be seen around lakes, rivers, ponds, marshes and on the sea coast. It feeds mostly on aquatic creatures which it catches after standing stationary beside or in the water or stalking its prey through the shallows.
Standing up to a metre tall, adults weigh from 1 to 2 kg (2.2 to 4.4 lb). They have a white head and neck with a broad black stripe that extends from the eye to the black crest. The body and wings are grey above and the underparts are greyish-white, with some black on the flanks. The long, sharply pointed beak is pinkish-yellow and the legs are brown.
The birds breed colonially in spring in "heronries", usually building their nests high in trees. A clutch of usually three to five bluish-green eggs is laid. Both birds incubate the eggs for a period of about 25 days, and then both feed the chicks, which fledge when seven or eight weeks old. Many juveniles do not survive their first winter, but if they do, they can expect to live for about five years.
The main call is a loud croaking "fraaank", but a variety of guttural and raucous noises are heard at the breeding colony. Grey herons have the ability to live in cities where habitats and nesting space are available. In the Netherlands, the grey heron has established itself over the past decades in great numbers in urban environments. In cities such as Amsterdam, they are ever present and well adapted to modern city life. They hunt as usual, but also visit street markets and snackbars. Some individuals make use of people feeding them at their homes or share the catch of recreational fishermen. Similar behaviour on a smaller scale has been reported in Ireland (Dublin, Galway and Cork). (wikipedia)
The River Dodder in Dublin is a great place to watch the Grey Heron hunt at close quarters.
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Transport portal, Dublin.
Taken with a Leica M4-P and a Voigtlander Nokton Classic 40mm f1.4 lens lens on CIneStill 400D film, and developed and scanned by the good folk in Gunns on Wexford Street.
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The Spotted Flycatcher (Muscicapa striata) is a small passerine bird in the Old World flycatcher family. It breeds in most of Europe and western Asia, and is migratory, wintering in Africa and southwest Asia. It is declining in parts of its range.
This is an undistinguished looking bird with long wings and tail. The adults have grey-brown upperparts and whitish underparts, with a streaked crown and breast, giving rise to the bird's common name. The legs are short and black, and the bill is black and has the broad but pointed shape typical of aerial insectivores. Juveniles are browner than adults and have spots on the upperparts.
Formerly a common bird of Irish parks, larger gardens and woodland edges, since the 1960s the population has been falling at an alarming rate for reasons that are not fully clear. There are probably several factors at work, including drought in the species' wintering grounds and a general drop in the number of insects here in Europe. (wikipedia and BirdWatch Ireland)
Taken in Birdwatch Ireland's East Coast Nature Reserve near Blackditch, Co. Wicklow, Ireland. A pair bred locally and had 2 fledglings in tow. It was great seeing them being fed at close quarters, without a care in the world.
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The Great Northern Loon, Great Northern Diver, or Common Loon (Gavia immer), is a large member of the loon, or diver, family of birds. The species is known as a Common Loon in North America and the Great Northern Diver in Eurasia, its current name is a compromise proposed by the International Ornithological Committee.
The Great Northern Loon breeds in Canada, parts of the northern United States, Greenland, and Alaska. There is a smaller population (ca. 3,000 pairs) in Iceland. On isolated occasions they have bred in the far north of Scotland. This species winters on sea coasts or on large lakes over a much wider range in Europe, as well as in North America.
There were two birds loitering off the base of the West Pier, Dun Laoghaire, Dublin Bay recently. Always a joy to see.
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The Black Guillemot or Tystie (Cepphus grylle) is a medium-sized alcid.
Adult birds have black bodies with a white wing patch, a thin dark bill, and red legs and feet. They show white wing linings in flight. In winter, the upperparts are pale grey and the underparts are white. The wings remain black with the large white patch on the inner wing.
Their breeding habitat is rocky shores, cliffs and islands on northern Atlantic coasts in eastern North America as far south as Maine, and in western Europe as far south as Ireland.They are one of the few birds to breed on Surtsey, Iceland a new volcanic island. In the UK it is a fairly common breeding bird in western and northern Scotland and Ireland. In the rest of Great Britain they only breed at St. Bees Head in Cumbria, the Isle of Man and on east Anglesey in north Wales. Some birds breed in Alaska where their range overlaps with the similar Pigeon Guillemot.
These birds often overwinter in their breeding areas, moving to open waters if necessary, but usually not migrating very far south.
They dive for food from the surface, swimming underwater. They mainly eat fish and crustaceans, also some mollusks, insects and plant material. (wikipedia)
This pair of breeding birds were perched out on the Great South Wall in Poolbeg, Dublin Bay. Always great fun to watch.
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The Eurasian Dotterel (Charadrius morinellus), or in Europe just Dotterel, is a small wader in the plover family of birds. It breeds in the Arctic tundra of northern Eurasia, from Norway to eastern Siberia, and on suitable mountain plateaus such as the Scottish highlands and the Alps. It nests in a bare ground scrape and lays two to four eggs.
This species is migratory, wintering in a narrow belt across north Africa from Morocco eastwards to Iran. Migration stopovers are traditional, and small parties (trips) of Dotterels pass through each year at these usually inland arable or grassy sites. The winter habitat is semi-desert.
This plover is smaller and more compact than Eurasian Golden Plover. It has a striking whitish supercilium in all plumages and has plain wings in flight. Adults in summer are unmistakable, with a chestnut breast bordered above with white, black belly and warm brown back. The legs are yellow, and the short bill is black. As with the phalaropes, the female is brighter than the male. The male Dotterel generally is responsible for incubation and looks after the chicks.
The Eurasian Dotterel is one of the species to which the Agreement on the Conservation of African-Eurasian Migratory Waterbirds (AEWA) applies. (Wikipedia)
Taken on the eastern Patches at Tacumshin, Co. Wexford. Only my second time seeing this species and the first time seeing an adult female. Beautiful bird.
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A very tame Grey Heron walked right up to me along the Grand Canal in Dublin, and just settled in for a spot of fishing. Not a bother on him! COVID-19, Level 3, June 2021.
Taken with a Leitz Elmar 50mm f2.8 lens on a Leica M4-P camera body, using FujiFilm PRO 400H (400 ASA) colour film. Developed and scanned by the excellent John Gunn Camera Shop on Wexford Street.
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A view of Camden Street during Level 2+ lockdown earlier this autumn. A bit surreal but fast becoming the very new norm.
Taken with an Olympus TRIP 35 rangefinder camera on Kodak Gold 200 film.
3 eggs, 300g of fine flour, a pinch of salt. usually 100g per person, but i make more so we have some dried pasta as well.
www.bookdepository.com/Art-Pasta-Lucio-Galletto/978190811... this book, has great info on making pasta at home, by hand or with the help of a pasta mashine.
Danke für das schöne Geschenk!
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The Small Copper is fairly common in Ireland. It is a fast flyer that will occasionally visit gardens but is usually found in fields, hedgerows and woodland edges. It has shiny copper wings with black dashes. Some specimens have small blue dots on the wings close to the body. (irishbutterflies.com)
1st generation flies from April to June, 2nd generation from July to September, and an occasional 3rd generation in October in good years. The caterpillar feeds on Common Sorrel (Rumex acetosa) and Sheep Sorrel (R. acetosella). The adult butterfly is a generalist, with nectar sources including: Buttercups (Ranunculus spp.), Daisy (Bellis perennis), Dandelion (Taraxacum agg.), Fleabane (Pulicaria dysenterica), Hawkweeds (Hieracium/Hypochoeris), Heather (Calluna vulgaris / Erica spp.), Ragwort (Senecio jacobaea), Red Clover (Trifolium pratense), Thistles (Cirsium spp. and Carduus spp.) and Yarrow (Achillea millefolium). (NDBC Ireland).
I saw several Small Copper butterflies at Kilmichael Point, Wexford earlier this summer. One of my favourite butterflies.
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The common wood pigeon (Columba palumbus) is a large species in the dove and pigeon family. The three Western European Columba pigeons, common wood pigeon, stock dove, and rock pigeon, though superficially alike, have very distinctive characteristics; the common wood pigeon may be identified at once by its larger size and weight, and the white on its neck and wing. It is otherwise a basically grey bird, with a pinkish breast. Adult birds bear a series of green and white patches on their necks, and a pink patch on their chest.
Juvenile birds do not have the white patches on either side of the neck. When they are about six months old (about three months out of the nest) they gain small white patches on both sides of the neck, which gradually enlarge until they are fully formed when the bird is about 6–8 months old (approx. ages only). Juvenile birds also have a greyer beak and an overall lighter grey appearance than adult birds. The call is a characteristic cooing, coo-COO-coo-coo-coo.
In the colder northern and eastern parts of Europe and western Asia the common woodpigeon is a migrant, but in southern and western Europe it is a well distributed and often abundant resident. In Ireland, woodpigeons are commonly seen in parks and gardens and are seen with increasing numbers in towns and cities.
For birds that survive the first year the typical lifespan is thus only three years, but the maximum recorded age is 17 years and 8 months for a bird ringed and recovered on the Orkney Islands. (wikipedia)
An adult woodpigeon feeding on the fresh leaves along the River Dodder, Dublin.