Fighting Black-tailed Godwits - Location, Location
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Glendalough b&w
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glendalough
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Moorhen
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Relaxing - Grenoble, France
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Old Clerys Store o Connell Street
South Bank Dublin
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Harris Hawk
taken at national bird of prey centre
Sunrise
Sandymount - Looking towards Dun Laoghaire
Val Fiscalina
Dolomites
Glendalough 6 (1 of 1)
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Glendalough 7 (1 of 1)
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foggy vanishing point - Dublin, Ireland
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Shades of landscape
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Sandycove at Night
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"Ruin On Achill Island"
If only the walls of this house on Achill Island could talk.
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Glendalough Jan 23
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Poulanass Waterfall_Glendalough Jan 23
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Light bellied Brent Geese
Dublin Bay
swan feathers
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Glendalough
Offshoot outing
Beach Structure - Lido Di Venezia
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Sunrise Dublin, Ireland.
Just grabbed my iPhone as sky lit up, it was -2 and although freezing it was a welcome change from rain. Was out taking a sunrise with all my photography gear two days before this and no colour in the sky.
Black Castle At First Light
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Dublin Dawn
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Long-tailed Silky Flycatcher
This is a very beautiful bird, found in Costa Rica’s highlands. The conspicuous crest, the long tail and the delicate, silky plumage make this bird very elegant.
The Long-tailed Silky-flycatcher is not globally threatened, despite the restricted range. It is common in suitable habitats but the population is small.The adult male has bluish-grey upperparts including back, rump, uppertail-coverts and upperwing-coverts. Flight-feathers and rectrices are black. Both adults have white areas on the middle portion of the inner webs of the black tail feathers, except on central pair of rectrices. The plumage is soft and glossy.
The colors of Iceland
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Sanderling and other LBJs
Foreshortened perspective of the diminutive residents of the south side with the Bailey beyond marking the northern point of Dublin Bay
Sir John Rogerson's Quay
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Night over Funes
Dolomites
Osprey
An Osprey on Rottnest Island, Western Australia.
I had to be quick as I was cycling so might not be the best image but an incredible sight
A Rainbow Lorikeet
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Smiley face - Chartreuse, French Alps
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Christmas is over, time to move on
Carnival in Rio
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Milky Way, anticyclone, foam swirl
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Seal lying on a surf board fixed position in Dungarvan Co. Waterford
Learning to surf (1 of 1)
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Fields of White
Dolomites
Panorama of French Alps
3 shots at 85mm stitched in Lightroom
The red bird cage - Grenoble, France
Fog and colors
Keem Beach
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Palm House
The palm house in Belfast Botanic gardens, 720nm IR image. High contrast and structure with a virtual coffee tone on an Ilford Pan F simulation in Nik silver efex
Where's Wally?
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Comfortable Collar Waterford
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Wall Art Bird Waterford
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the Guardian - Dublin, Ireland
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Wild Green and Black Poison Dart Frog -Dendrobates auratus
Green and Black poison dart frogs are small amphibians about 4 cm (1.5 inches) long. They have poison glands on the surface of their body, and toxins are produced by their diet in the wild. Their bright colours and bold markings are believed to discourage predators. Poison dart frogs are also known as poison arrow frogs.
They get this name because hunters living in the rainforest traditionally used the frogs’ skin toxins on their darts and arrows. Some frogs are more poisonous than others. The toxins come from the ants or other insects they eat in the wild. Captive-bred poison dart frogs are not toxic due to their different diet.
I did not use a macro lens here but used a telephoto and still ran away so fast.
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Minimalist Architecture
Luxembourg Philharmonie
Light bellied Brent Geese 4
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green tower (1 of 1)
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Walker (1 of 1)
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Sandymount Promenade looking towards Dun Laoghaire
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looking down the liffey Dublin from grattan bridge
St Johann Church
Dolomites
Carnival in Rio
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Doonbeg Sunrise
Sunrise at Doughmore Bay Co. Clare.
This is behind Trump International Doonbeg
Bailey Lighthouse
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Birds (1 of 1)
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Kite Surfing at Sunset
KeeL, Achill , Co. Mayo
Choose your torture, Sandymount
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Under the bridge - Dublin, Ireland
(on Explore! January 12, 2023)
Straffan House
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River Liffey Reflections
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trees branches
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saturday bus stop
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St. Magdalena
Dolomites
Harris-Hawk
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Full Moon, Commissioners for Irish Lights HQ, Dun Laoghaire
The HQ contains a circular office/reception block, with an open atrium at its centre.
Sunrise at Sandymount 2
Sunrise at Sandymount Dublin
Sunrise at Sandymount
Sunrise at Sandymount Dublin
antique 2 sawn
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sepia curled up
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Sunrise at Sandymount Dublin
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Sunrise at Sandymount Dublin
Misty Morning at the Lower Lake
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Between beats - Dublin, Ireland
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Moonrise
Crescent moon rising over the Julian Alps in the north of Slovenia.
Goldcrest
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Snow Huts
Dolomites
Wild Frog Costa Rica- Macro image
I was not sure if this was a Poison Dart frog so I took a quick macro shot and ran.
The Poison Dart frog belongs to the scientific family Dendrobatidae, which contains more than 175 individual species spread across a range that includes large parts of Central and South America. They wear some of the most brilliant and beautiful colours on Earth.
Depending on individual habitats, which extend from the tropical forests of Costa Rica to Brazil, their coloring can be yellow, gold, copper, red, green, blue, or black. Their elaborate designs and hues are deliberately ostentatious to ward off potential predators, a tactic called aposematic coloration.
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Great Horned Owl
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Barn Owl
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Dublin Zoo
Dalkey Island, low setting winter sun
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Kite Surfer at Keel Beach
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Red Tailed Hawk
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Great Horned Owl
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Tourmakeady Waterfall
Tourmakeady Waterfall is a hidden gem in County Mayo. Seen here on January 3rd 23 in full flow. It is possible to swim in the pool during much calmer weather.
Harris Hawk
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Golden Eagle
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Young Resplendent Quetzal
Resplendent quetzals are beautiful birds well known for their colorful plumage. They have a green body (showing iridescence from green-gold to blue-violet) and red breasts. Depending on the light, quetzal feathers can shine in a variant of colors: green, cobalt, lime, yellow, to ultramarine. Their green upper tail coverts hide their tails and in breeding males are particularly splendid, being longer than the rest of the body. The primary wing coverts are also unusually long and give a fringed appearance. The male has a helmet-like crest. The bill, which is partly covered by green filamentous feathers, is yellow in mature males and black in females. Their iridescent feathers, which cause them to appear shiny and green like the canopy leaves, are a camouflage adaptation to hide within the canopy during rainy weather.
The parents dig their own nests in rotting tree trunks and termite mounds, or they use old woodpecker nests and natural cavities in trees. Both sexes participate in the construction of the nest and the incubation of the clutch, which usually consists of two eggs. Both parents care for the chicks, the male to a greater extent.
Young quetzals can fly at about three weeks of age, but males do not begin to grow their long tail plumes for three years.
The adults have a more fruit-based diet while the chicks consume primarily insects and some fruits.
Quetzals use the methods of "hovering" and "stalling" in order to selectively pick the fruit near the tips of the branches. Particularly important are wild avocados and other fruit of the laurel family, which the birds swallow whole before regurgitating the pits.
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Sucked into the void - Iceland
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Moonscape
Dolomites
Blue Hour - Lexicon Library
Dun Laoghaire
Dolomites Autumn Colour
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Wicklow forest walk
Wicklow
No Banshees on Inisherin 😉
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Red Kite, incoming over Avoca river
Successfully reintroduced to Wicklow, the population is now self sustaining….. do they like Grey Squirrels?
Winter Showers
Handheld shot of rainbow in the Gap of Dunloe
