Different species to the one we have.
Gulls and starlings would attack you here in Ireland. Even a robin might swoop at you if you approached his nest. Never happened to me though. Only the wife. There’s something about clothes lines they don’t like.
Everything in Australia seems to be doolally.
A Robin redbreast has started to visit me in the mornings. He’s eluded a photo so far but they are a lovely bird to have in the garden at Christmas time.
I’ve been throwing bread out the last few mornings to this lad no idea what it is, he’s like a super sized starling or something
Dunnock afaik
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You try to do your bit for the birds in this weather throwing out porridge oats and nuts to them etc and the cats start having a field day.
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I had a sparrowhawk visit my back door yesterday.
Unfortunately it was in my cats mouth.
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They say its a deceased loved one looking over you
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Buzzard in the tree at the end of the driveway here in Dunmore. Magnificent animal.
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Plentiful around here too recently. Their graceful flight and wingspan would catch your eye
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A common sight during summer in South Central Cork… Were they reintroduced or have they hoped across from the UK?
I was reading about them there now.
Until quite recently breeding birds were to be found mainly in the north and east of country, north of a line from Sligo to Wexford. Now they are widespread. The stronghold of the species is in Co. Donegal, Co. Monaghan and Co. Louth. Birds nest in trees and sometimes on cliffs, usually with access to open land including farmland, moorland and wetland. The species was absent in Ireland from the late nineteenth century until 1933, when a pair bred in Antrim. The species has spread slowly down from the north through the twentieth century
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What’s that?
Dinner if he approaches it properly
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That’s a pheasant
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Corkie’d lick them oul’ faded rails and spindles into shape in jig time.
Be done and gone before you’re up. Lovely bird the cock pheasant - magnificent plumage.
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You’ve an unreal spot for bees there, theyd have a gay old time along the river banks