2013_1109 Buzzard and Kestrel at Osberstown Naas Co Kildare

2013_1109 Buzzard and Kestrel at Osberstown Naas Co Kildare

2013_1110 Sunday 10th Nov 2013, Whiting bay, 09.40-10.20h Little egret and grey wagtail at the stream running into Whiting bay

2013_1110 Sunday  10th Nov 2013, 

Whiting bay, 09.40-10.20h  

Little egret and grey wagtail at the stream (nearest Ardmore) running into Whiting bay

Also 3 duck on the water, no clear identification?

Also on the beach 14 turnstone, 2 red shank, 15 Oyster catchers, 

In the fields, 24 curlew, and 6 common gull with the black headed ones.

Caliso Bay

10.00h

Male & female stonechat

Tuesday 5th Nov Tree sparrows with house sparrows at EFKO factory in Russia

Monday 28th Oct 2013, 35 ringed plover, & 3 X Black redstart ! in the Heritage

email to Paul Walsh... on Mon 28th Oct 2013

Monday 28th Oct 2013, 

10.00h-11.00h 35 ringed plover on Whiting beach, 

Later on.... 

15.20h in The Heritage, Dysert  Ardmor, (on my front lawn and drive would you believe) 3 X redstart !   I can still see one of them on my neighbours lawn.... (15.30h) Is that possible? How can I tell the difference between redstart and black redstart (female / juvenile) this time of the year? I have seen Black Rdstart in the Netherlands in the Summer with their breeding plumage, much darker than these birds...

Sunday 27th Oct. 2013 16.45h-17.15h, Whiting bay, 1 X Kestrel Female, and 4 X Chough

Buzzard (common) Millenium Business park, Osberstown, Naas, Co. Kildare Ireland at 10.30h 2013_1030

Again another Buzzard (common)  at Millenium Business park, Osberstown, Naas, Co. Kildare Ireland at 10.30h 2013_1030h

This is  getting to be a regular occurrance, very good news indeed.

Oh By the way, there was another black redstart in the Heritage, Dysert, Ardmore, Co. Waterford,  yesterday , 29th Oct 2013

1 X Snipe, 1 X female Sparrowhawk, 7 X Chough, 1 X Whitethroat (late in the year) and lots of linnets (flying westward) Whiting bay

At Whiting bay, 07.14h-08.05h.

1 X Snipe, Flew in from the beach and high overland then dropped onto land over the brow of the hill

1 X female Sparrowhawk, on the ground in the car park as I drove in.

7 X Chough, a group of 4 (FOR THE 3RD TIME! A FAMILY?) 4+2+1

1 X Whitethroat (late in the year) sitting on a blackberry twig at the edge of the scrub and the grass field. He sang beautifully but short maybe two bursts in all, then dropped down into the lower parts of the rushes.

and lots of linnets (flying westward) at least I think they were, they were all over the place as I left the house (no.3) and later on the beach while walking

of course great blacked backed gulls and curlew, and oystercatchers,

35 ringed plover & 3 X Black Redstart in the Heritage

email to Paul Walsh

Monday 28th Oct 2013, 

10.00h-11.00h 35 ringed plover on Whiting beach, 

15.20h in The Heritage, Dysert  Ardmor, (on my front lawn and drive would you believe) 3 X redstart !   I can still see one of them on my neighbours lawn.... (15.30h) Is that possible? How can I tell the difference between redstart and black redstart (female / juvenile) this time of the year? I have seen Black Redstart in the Netherlands in the Summer with their breeding plumage, much darker than these birds...

1 X Kestrel Female, and 4 X Chough, Sunday 27th Oct. 2013 16.45h-17.15h, Whiting bay, 1 X Kestrel Female, and 4 X Chough

Sunday 27th Oct. 2013 

16.45h-17.15h, Whiting bay, 1 X Kestrel Female, and 4 X Chough

Wheatear, Chough, Merlin, Ravens at Whiting bay

In the car park (nearest Ardmore) a male wheatear (autumn plumage of course). He stayed the whole time I was there and was not so wary at all.

A Merlin  came off the beach and inland at speed to the right of the farm house chasing small prey. WOW. 

4 Chough passed, foraging from east to west.

Ravens X 2 also.

19 Curlew on the beach

group of 25 circling round  from shore to fields.

Ravens at Ram Head

Saturday, 19th October, several ravens were displaying it seemed, doing some kind of synchronised flying, / courtship flying . Very nice. Plus, lots of Jackdaws, 2, hooded crows, and a magpie, right down on the small wooden posts along the cliff walk. As I left (to go and visit Grandad in the Mercy Hospital) I bumped into the Waterford birders, equipped with binoculars and telescopes, and one was Michael Cowning whose mobile phone no. I got. He said he would sms me with any rarities (that was their thing actually, rarities.) He mentioned the beaeater seen 1.5 years ago at the  coastguards !

Goldcrests in Millenium Business Park

Friday the 18th of October 2013, 3 X Goldcrests in the trees beside Hawthorn House, in Millennium Business Park, Osberstown, Naas, Co. Kildare, Ireland. They were  easily identifiable as I was viewing them from above, i.e. the 2nd floor of HH. No backlight !
The day before, Thursday the 17th, I also saw some but was not sure what they were exactly (could have been chiffchaffs, and I was viewing them against a backlight)

Buzzard (common) and Cock Pheasant, at Osberstown Millenium Business Park, Naas Co. Kildare, Ireland

Saw a  Buzzard (common) At Osberstown Millennium Business Park, Naas Co. Kildare, Ireland, at app. 08.45h this morning (2013_1011) flying  slowly over the car park (at Kerry)

I had seen several buzzards in and around this area in the last 5/6 weeks

I also saw a cock pheasant on Thursday the 10th of Oct. 2013, flying a short distance and landing in the fallow field near the lab / office.

Jay at Conyngham road near Islandbridge Sunday 6th Oct 2013

Travelling from Chapelizod village to Islandbridge, app. 100 mtr from the traffic lights which turn on to the South Circular road, I spotted a Jay flying from the memorial park, northwards, high into the tree tops of the Phoenix park, and I drove the car. No photo opportunity.
Nice to see this in Ireland, as I consider it somewhat of a rarity. Having spend many years in the Netherlands, I became accustomed to seeing them in numbers, especially this time of the year when a steady migration  southwards would take place.