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Lovely photos Holly.
A charming Barbary ground squirrel enjoying a munch in a ring of flowers that are currently carpeting the otherwise bleak coastal and mountainsides following heavy rains on Fuerteventura.
Yay! A new home record.
Morning coffee in bed and a great egret flew past the window. Presumably on its way from the Gearagh to Duniskey.
Wow!
Incoming grey heron!
Get off my patch egret!
A common sandpiper on the move.
Some of the local residents while walking down to see the goosanders at Harty's quay in Cork.
A pestered buzzard,
A meditating grey heron,
A sleeping little egret, and
A framed robin.
Variations on the superb drake Goosander at Harty's Quay, Cork, today. This diving duck is a member of the sawbill family, named for their serrated bills as seen in the close up photo, for catching fish. No sign of the females so far.
A brief spell of sunshine recently and this Robin was singing away, and wishing everyone a very happy Christmas and New Year.
Frosty love carved on an old bench on the midwinter solstice.
Wow! I'm currently watching a barn owl perched on my front gate on CCTV for the past 15 minutes or so. In the swirling fog.
It would much nicer in landscape mode.
Up periscope. A great white egret keeping a not so low profile behind one of the many stumps at the Gearagh.
Autumn fall colours in the rain.
Hundreds of small jellyfish washed up on this small beach in West Cork.
Thanks.
Little and great white egrets blending together.
The size difference is quite considerable.
Variations on a belted kingfisher.
All blacks on Vancouver Island.
Black oystercatchers,
Black turnstones,
Black squirrel and
Black bear.
I was watching a black squirrel at Buttertubs marsh on Vancouver Island when it suddenly vanished and this lovely barred owl carrying a decapitated rat landed on a branch for a snack, right in front of me. It even ignored a couple of passersby below with their phones. Very dark but amazing!
It took a while, but this grey phalarope eventually left the vast muddy expanse where it was feeding. and floated out for a preen while blown downstream in the wind. I was almost running after it! They are remarkably tame birds.
Morning coffee at home and look who flew past. Grab shots through the double-glazed window, but nice to see the local juvenile white-tailed sea eagle.
Curlew sandpipers showing well on the beach at Ballynamona in east Cork.
Doesn't time fly! Same place, two pectoral sandpipers, but only about 45 years apart. The 'descendants' obviously like Shanagarry in east Cork.
A wee wren waiting patiently for me to move on from one of the hides at Harper's Island Nature Reserve in order to feed its nestlings somewhere nearby. I did.
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Fairy Forts is back up to No.2 best seller again and already going for a reprint.
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Early morning at the Gearagh, but, oh 'deer', the main carpark is closed for several days, as they are pouring concrete.
Afternoon cuppa at home watching a fox coming out of the woodwork, then a female sparrowhawk flypast. The hoodies missed her as they were dismantling a rabbit.
It was cooold up in the clouds in the Cirque de Gavarnie in the Pyrenees recently. Even the choughs had to contend with snow and hailstones.
Dive bombing alpine choughs.
