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Since the start of August, we have had many migratory wading birds visiting the beaches in our nieghbourhood for food.
Right now, these common ringed plovers (Charadrius hiaticula) are in a large majority, with groups of 10-20 together on several of the beaches. There are also up to 4 other species together with them.
The brown ringed plovers are juveniles born this year, and the ones with orange beak and legs are adults. They will soon migrate all the way to southwestern Europe or western Africa.
My kind of meditation and healing is to lie down on a beach, to watch their behaviour right in front of me, and take some photos like these ones when the conditions are good.
So that is what I'll do today as well, in the nice weather ♡
(Sandlo in Norwegian)
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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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The common merganser (North American) or goosander (Eurasian) (Mergus merganser) is a large sea duck of rivers and lakes in forested areas of Europe, Asia, and North America. The common merganser eats mainly fish. It nests in holes in trees.
Within western Europe, a marked southward spread has occurred from Scandinavia in the breeding range since about 1850, colonising Scotland in 1871, England in 1941, and also a strong increase in the population in the Alps. They are very scarce in Ireland, with regular breeding confined to a few pairs in County Wicklow. Irish birds appear to be largely resident. Birds from Continental Europe can occasionally found along coastal areas in winter. (wikipedia and BirdWatch Ireland)
This female (redhead) has been seen regularly this winter in a small coastal park with a brackish pond in south county Dublin. An amazing record for Ireland, let alone Dublin. Most winter birds away from Wicklow are seen on the coast around Cork and Waterford. What a thrill to see.
A sparrowhawk (Accipiter nisus) photographed from a hide six months ago.
Right now I am in the same hide, photographing golden eagles (and lots of corvids) in the snow.
(Spurvehauk in Norwegian)
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Name: Brown shrike
Scientific: Lanius cristatus
Malay: Tirjup Belukar / Tirjup Coklat / Tirjup Tanah
Family: Laniidae
IUCN Red List (v3.1, 2016): Least Concern
Gear: SONY a9II + SEL200600G.
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camera & lens test: a9ii + sigma mc11 adapter + ef 100-400mm f/4.5-5.6L IS USM II.
one good thing about sony fe mount cameras is their total compatibility with "old" canon ef mount lenses via a sigma adapter. everything works including storage of exif data.
Name: Spectacled spiderhunter
Scientific: Arachnothera flavigaster
Malay: Kelicap Jantung Besar / Kelicap-sabit Besar
Family: Nectariniidae
IUCN Red List (v.3.1, 2016): Least concern
Gear: SONY α9II + SEL200600G + SEL14TC
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Name: House crow
Scientific: Corvus splendens
Malay: Gagak Rumah
Family: Corvidae
IUCN Red List (v3.1, 2018): Least Concern
Gear: SONY a9II + SEL200600G + SEL20TC.
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Name: Zappey's flycatcher
Scientific: Cyanoptila cumatilis
Malay: Sambar Berlau Rengkung Biru / Sambar Zappey
Family: Muscicapidae
IUCN Red List (v3.1, 2016): Near Threatened
Gear: SONY a9II + SEL200600G + SEL14TC.
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I've just been outside in the sunshine to check what birds to register and photograph as the first ones for June and the summer months.
I did the very first registration of the great crested grebe, like the ones I posted earlier today, for June in our municipality.
It has been here for more than a month now, but it isn't usual that they are here during late spring and not at all during summer.
These sweet smelling flowers are dame's rockets (Hesperis matronalis) that have spread on a nice hill in my neighbourhood.
They are said to bloom from June, but started already in May this year. I hadn't heard of them before moving here, and now I suddenly have a few of them in my own garden as well.
The plant was introduced to European gardens from the Mediterranean region and central Asia. It is edible, and has been used as medicine.
Sadly it is an aggressive grower that spreads easily and competes with native plants.
(Dagfiol in Norwegian)
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The White-throated Dipper (Cinclus cinclus) is an aquatic passerine bird found in Europe and the Middle East, also known as the European Dipper or just Dipper. The species is divided into several subspecies on colour differences, especially of the pectoral band. The Dipper of Great Britain and Ireland is known as the "Brown-Bellied" Dipper (C. c. gularis), while the Irish race is Cinclus cinclus hibernicus.
The Dipper is a rotund, short-tailed bird, dark above and white-breasted, closely associated with swiftly running rivers and streams or the lakes into which these fall. The Dipper often perches bobbing spasmodically with its short tail uplifted on the rocks round which the water swirls and tumbles.
It acquired its name from these sudden dips, not from its diving habit, though it dives as well as walks into the water. It flies rapidly and straight, its short wings whirring swiftly and without pauses or glides, calling a shrill zil, zil, zil. It will then either drop on the water and dive or plunge in with a small splash. From a perch it will walk into the water and deliberately submerge, but there is no truth in the assertion that it can defy the laws of specific gravity and walk along the bottom.
This is one of a pair that were singing and appearing to be paired up under a bridge near Dublin city.
A sparrowhawk (Accipiter nisus) photographed four months ago, in the same hide where I have had an amazing time this weekend as well, photographing golden eagles, other birds and squirrels in the snow.
Today it was snowing and cloudy all day, but even more action than yesterday in the sunshine.
(Spurvehauk in Norwegian)
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Name: Black-throated sunbird (male)
Scientific: Aethopyga saturata
Malay: Kelicap Gunung / Kelicap Tekak Hitam
Family: Nectariniidae
IUCN Red List (v3.1, 2016): Least Concern
Gear: SONY a9II + SEL200600G.
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Shorebirds of Ireland, Freshwater Birds of Ireland and The Birds of Ireland: A Field Guide with Jim Wilson.
www.markcarmodyphotography.com
The Razorbill/Crosán (Alca torda) is a colonial seabird that only comes to land in order to breed. This agile bird chooses one partner for life; females lay one egg per year. Razorbills nest along coastal cliffs in enclosed or slightly exposed crevices. The parents spend equal amounts of time incubating. Once the chick has hatched, the parents take turns foraging for their young and sometimes fly long distances before finding prey.
The Razorbill is primarily black with a white underside. The male and female are identical in plumage; however, males are generally larger than females. In 1918, the Razorbill was protected in the United States by the Migratory Bird Treaty Act. Presently, the major threat for the population is the destruction of breeding sites.
The Razorbill has white underparts and a black head, neck, back and feet during breeding season. A thin white line also extends from the eyes to the end of the bill. Its head is darker than that of a Common Guillemot. During the nonbreeding season, the throat and face behind the eye become white, and the white line on the face becomes less prominent. The thick black bill has a blunt end. The tail feathers are slightly longer in the center in comparison to other alcids. This makes the Razorbill have a distinctly long tail which is not common for an auk. The Razorbill chooses one partner for life, and nests along coastal waters of the continental shelf. (wikipedia)
This is 1st summer/1st winter bird taken from the Great South Wall in Dublin Bay, Ireland.
Name: Fluffy-backed tit-babbler
Scientific: Macronus ptilosus
Malay: Burung Pong Pong / Kekicau Pong Pong / Rimba Pong Pong / Rimba Pong-pong
Family: Timaliidae
IUCN Red List (v3.1, 2016): Near Threatened
Gear: SONY a9II + SEL200600G + SEL14TC.
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Audouin's gull (Ichthyaetus audouinii) is a large gull restricted to the Mediterranean and the western coast of Saharan Africa and the Iberian Peninsula.
In the late 1960s, this was one of the world's rarest gulls, with a population of only 1,000 pairs. It has established new colonies, but remains rare with a population of about 10,000 pairs.
This species, unlike many large gulls, rarely scavenges, but is a specialist fish eater, and is therefore strictly coastal and pelagic. This bird will feed at night, often well out to sea, but also slowly patrols close into beaches, occasionally dangling its legs to increase drag.
The adult basically resembles a small European herring gull, the most noticeable differences being the short stubby red bill and "string of pearls" white wing primary tips, rather than the large "mirrors" of some other species. The legs are grey-green. It takes four years to reach adult plumage.
This species shows little tendency to wander from its breeding areas, but there were single records in the Netherlands and England in May 2003, and one spent from December 2016 to April 2017 in Trinidad.
It is listed as vulnerable by the IUCN. (wikipedia)
I was fortunate to bump into a small flock of Audouin's Gull on a local beach in Vilarmoura on the south coast of Portugal in the early summer of 2024. One of the nicest looking of the gull species. This bird had a white darvic ring with the code ARTU. The bird was ringed/banded with this ring on 5th July 2005 as a chick on Isla del Alboran, Almeria (a small islet of Spain in the Alboran Sea, part of the western Mediterranean Sea, about 56 kilometres (35 mi; 30 nmi) north of the Moroccan coast and 85 kilometres (53 mi; 46 nmi) from the Spanish mainland. The main buildings are an automated lighthouse built in the 19th century, a small cemetery, and a harbor). The island is a flat platform about 15 metres (49 feet) above sea level and about 71,200 m2 . The islet has been recognised as an Important Bird Area (IBA) by BirdLife International because it supports a breeding population of Audouin's gulls as well as various species of passerines on migration. In 2001, the United Nations declared the island and its seabed a Specially Protected Area of Mediterranean Importance.
Although we often see the sparrowhawk (Accipiter nisus) outside our house, I love to travel the two hours to Marnardal to get photos like this of them from a hide during autumn, in addition to golden eagles during winter.
Since the goshawk haven't showed up on my visits yet, I will go back to another hide in the same area on Friday, to probably get my first goshawk photos ツ
I'm so glad for opportunities to enjoy nature like this, as my troubled legs and back won't let me walk or stand for more than some minutes at a time at the moment. Nature means everything to cope ♡
(Spurvehauk in Norwegian)
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Name: Crimson-winged woodpecker (male)
Scientific: Picus puniceus
Malay: Belatuk Emas / Belatuk Sayap Merah
Family: Picidae
IUCN Red List (v3.1, 2016): Least Concern
Gear: SONY a9II + SEL200600G + SEL14TC.
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Name: Common green magpie
Scientific: Cissa chinensis
Malay: Gagak Gunung / Magpai Hijau
Family: Corvidae
IUCN Red List (v3.1, 2018): Least Concern
Gear: SONY a9II + SEL200600G.
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The Red Kite (Milvus milvus) is a medium-large bird of prey in the family Accipitridae, which also includes many other diurnal raptors such as eagles, buzzards, and harriers. The species is currently endemic to the Western Palearctic region in Europe and northwest Africa, though formerly also occurred just outside in northern Iran. It is a rare species which is resident in the milder parts of its range in western Europe and northwest Africa, but birds from northeastern and central Europe winter further south and west, reaching south to Turkey. (wikipedia)
The Red Kite's diet consists mainly of small mammals such as mice, voles, shrews, young hares and rabbits. It also feeds on a wide variety of carrion including sheep carcasses and dead game birds. Live birds are also taken and occasionally reptiles and amphibians. Earthworms also form an important part of the diet, especially in the spring.
As scavengers, red kites are particularly sensitive to poisoning. Illegal poison baits set for foxes or crows are indiscriminate and kill protected birds and other animals. This has occurred to the Red Kites from the reintroduction programme here in Ireland. Legislation has now changed such that leaving poisoned carcasses out on land is illegal. However, enforcement of this new law could prove difficult to police.
On the 19 July 2007, the first thirty red kites of the reintroduction program here were released in Co. Wicklow. The first successful breeding was in 2010. This stunning adult was coaxing its fledgling from the trees over Avoca Village, Wicklow. on a murky morning earlier in the summer. What a bird.
because that's what they do in the daytime... - Sleep
Sony a9II (ILCE-9M2)/Sony FE 200-600mm F5.6-6.3 G OSS + 1.4X Teleconverter
From my first encounter with the red-necked phalaropes (Phalaropus lobatus), on Svalbard last summer.
(Svømmesnipe in Norwegian)
My album of images from Svalbard here.
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The White-throated Dipper (Cinclus cinclus) is an aquatic passerine bird found in Europe and the Middle East, also known as the European Dipper or just Dipper. The species is divided into several subspecies on colour differences, especially of the pectoral band. The Dipper of Great Britain and Ireland is known as the "Brown-Bellied" Dipper (C. c. gularis), while the Irish race is Cinclus cinclus hibernicus.
The Dipper is a rotund, short-tailed bird, dark above and white-breasted, closely associated with swiftly running rivers and streams or the lakes into which these fall. The Dipper often perches bobbing spasmodically with its short tail uplifted on the rocks round which the water swirls and tumbles.
It acquired its name from these sudden dips, not from its diving habit, though it dives as well as walks into the water. It flies rapidly and straight, its short wings whirring swiftly and without pauses or glides, calling a shrill zil, zil, zil. It will then either drop on the water and dive or plunge in with a small splash. From a perch it will walk into the water and deliberately submerge, but there is no truth in the assertion that it can defy the laws of specific gravity and walk along the bottom.
This is one of a pair that were singing and appearing to be paired up under a bridge near Dublin city.
Shorebirds of Ireland, Freshwater Birds of Ireland and The Birds of Ireland: A Field Guide 2nd Edition with Jim Wilson.
www.markcarmodyphotography.com
This is the commonest of three similar red-tailed species in Ireland , although it has declined in recent decades like many other bee species. Queens and females are black with striking crimson tails and black hairs lining the shiny pollen baskets. Males are similar but have red hairs on the hindleg and a yellow ‘collar’ and head. The two similar species B. ruderarius and B. rupestris are much rarer with the former possessing a duller tail and red-fringed pollen baskets whilst the latter has a more slender body shape, dark smokey wings and lacks pollen baskets altogether. Although it can be seen feeding on ornamental garden flowers, in my experience it seems to prefer native species.
It is widespread and fairly common in Ireland, but has declined and is class as Near Threatened.
It flies between March-October.
It can ber found in parks and gardens, low intensity farmland, flowery scrub, coastal grassland. In my experience it is most abundant in flowery meadows.
The preferred flowers in clude Bird’s-foot Trefoil, Vetches, Restharrow, Hawkweeds, Dandelion, Clovers, Knapweed, Thistles and others. (irishnaturalist.com/bees/red-tailed-bumblebee-bombus-lapi... Owen Beckett)
This beauty was photographed in my back garden in Glasnevin, Co. Dublin, Ireland.
Name: Green-billed malkoha
Scientific: Phaenicophaeus tristis
Malay: Burung Kera / Cenok Kera / Cenok Besar / Cenok Paruh Hijau / Sewah Kera
Family: Cuculidae
IUCN Red List (v3.1, 2016): Least Concern
Gear: a9II + SEL200600G + SEL14TC.
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