@kevinbarry.bsky.social
Tyneside Irish | Freelance ecologist | Birder
Drove around the northern fringes of Doñana for the first time earlier this year- the intensive fruit farming goes on for miles 🥺
30.07.2025 08:16 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Thanks! Definitely not a safe place if you’re a fish…
29.07.2025 18:55 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Little Bittern at São Lourenço lake, #Algarve #Portugal 2024 #birds #birdphotography #wetlands
29.07.2025 16:43 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Turtle doves from the beer garden again! Hope they haven’t redecorated…
29.07.2025 08:53 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
My local wren paying a visit #birds #birdphotography #wren
18.07.2025 17:37 — 👍 6 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0So lucky to have swifts nesting since 2022. Just one pair but hopefully it's the start of a colony.
#swifts #apusapus #nestingswifts
Thank you!
19.07.2025 13:20 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Booted eagle checking me out at Parque Ambiental, Vilamoura #Portugal taken last October #birds #birdphotography
18.07.2025 17:42 — 👍 40 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0
Guadiana river at Canais, Mértola
White-rumped swift
After 3 sites and over 20km walked, I finally connected with white-rumped swifts, a species that only just makes it into Europe as a breeding bird #birds #swifts #Portugal
07.07.2025 14:06 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Sometimes you go out and have few opportunities for a photo, but have a great day birding- yesterday was one of those days - distant common redstart on lichen covered cork oak, in the hills north of #Tavira #Portugal #birds #woodland
30.06.2025 12:22 — 👍 9 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Hungry mouths to feed! 2 out of a total of 4 young little grebes in this brood. 27 June, São Lourenço lake #Algarve #Portugal #birds #birdphotography
28.06.2025 13:00 — 👍 8 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Iberian magpie - Cyanopica cooki - taken yesterday at Quinta do Lago, #Algarve #Portugal #birds #birdphotography
28.06.2025 12:55 — 👍 10 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0Managed to video this beautiful hoopoe preening whilst I had lunch. Always the best views when least expected! #tavira #algarve
19.06.2025 15:12 — 👍 10 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
European red-rumped swallow, near Castro Marim #Portugal today #birds
29.05.2025 18:39 — 👍 9 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
European bee-eater near Castro Marim #Portugal today #birds #birdphotography
29.05.2025 18:36 — 👍 10 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Here’s a Common Greenshank from the Tavira saltpans, #Portugal taken March 24 #shorebirds #WaderWednesday
28.05.2025 13:20 — 👍 10 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 0Thank you!
28.05.2025 07:39 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Little grebe, taken back in April at Parque Ambiental, Vilamoura #Portugal #birds #birdphotography #wetlands
28.05.2025 07:14 — 👍 18 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
A couple more pics of my favourite part of #Glasgow Botanical Gardens- the insectivorous plants of Kibble Palace #botany #plants #iPhone13mini
26.05.2025 11:11 — 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I understand they have / had a particularly bad neighbour
20.05.2025 17:26 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Just seen all 4 off East Wemyss today too, celebrating with a coffee in Dunfermline Starbucks!
05.05.2025 15:53 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Black-winged stilt, Castro Marim #Portugal 13 April 2025 #birds #birdphotography #waders
02.05.2025 06:55 — 👍 26 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Ferruginous Duck - Parque Ambiental, Vilamoura #Portugal 11 April #birds #wetlands #birdphotography
01.05.2025 08:44 — 👍 11 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Corn bunting- Parque Ambiental, Vilamoura #Portugal 11 April 2025 #birds #birdphotography
24.04.2025 20:19 — 👍 11 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
As a change from birds, here’s another insectivore…pitcher plant (Sarracenia) at Kibble Palace #Glasgow Botanical Gardens
22.04.2025 09:23 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0One of my favourite hummers
16.04.2025 18:50 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
White Stork - Dehesa de Abajo #Andalucia #birds #birdphotography
15.04.2025 09:52 — 👍 20 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
White-headed duck yesterday, Dehesa de Abajo #Andalucia #birds #birdphotography
15.04.2025 09:49 — 👍 18 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Western Swamphen - Quinta do Lago #Portugal 01 Mar 2025 #birds #birdphotography #wetlands
15.03.2025 19:59 — 👍 19 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
Sanderling on the beach today, Aldeia Nova #Portugal #birds #birdphotography #waders
15.03.2025 19:45 — 👍 13 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
