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July 28, 2010

Black tailed godwits


Plenty of Black tailed godwits at Shannon airport lagoon
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Green room surf camp


The kids camp Surf instruction on Lahinch beach with the Green room
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July 20, 2010

Blackcap


A female Blackcap hiding in the canopy
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July 16, 2010

Save Crab islands wave


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July 5, 2010

Juvenile Siskin



Young siskins in the garden
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July 3, 2010

Spoonbill in Clare





A Spoonbill flew over me and my daughter at Rineanna point from Shannon lagoon , this was the third county record and the first since 1998, well happy with that!
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  • eye bright
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  • frozen in
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  • pied wagtail
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  • Pomarine skua
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  • Portugal
  • Portuguese Man of War
  • Poulnabrone Dolmen
  • Poulnasherry Bay
  • pregrine
  • Primrose
  • puffin
  • Purple Loosestrife
  • Purple Orchid
  • purple sandpiper
  • Purple Swamphen
  • Pyramidal Orchid
  • Quilty
  • Quinto do Lago
  • rabbit
  • Raddes Warbler
  • Rath
  • Raven
  • Razorbill
  • Red Admiral
  • Red backed Shrike
  • Red Breasted Flycatcher
  • red breasted merganzer
  • Red Deer
  • Red footed Falcon
  • Red Kite
  • Red legged Partridge
  • Red squirrel
  • Red throated Diver
  • Red Valarian
  • Red-tailed Bumble Bee
  • Redpoll
  • Redshank
  • Redstart
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  • Reed bunting
  • Reed Warbler
  • Ria Formosa
  • Rileys
  • Rinevella bay
  • Ring billed gull
  • Ring necked Duck
  • ringed bird
  • ringed plover
  • Ringlet
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  • Rock pipit
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  • Rook
  • Roseate Tern
  • Rosroe Lake
  • Ross bay
  • Royal Tern
  • Ruff
  • Sabines gull
  • Salgados Lagoon
  • Saltees
  • Sand Martin
  • sanderling
  • Sandwich Tern
  • sandwitch tern
  • Sardinian Warbler
  • Scaup
  • Sea Aster
  • Sea Campion
  • Sea Thrift
  • seafield
  • Sedge warbler
  • Semi Palmated Sandpiper
  • Serin
  • Shag
  • Shannon airtport lagoon
  • Shaws Wood
  • shelduck
  • Sherard's Downy-rose
  • Short eared owl
  • shoveler
  • Siberian Chiffchaff
  • siskin
  • Six-spot Burnet Moth
  • Skylark
  • Slavonian Grebe
  • Slieve Callan
  • Small Copper
  • Small Heath
  • Smew
  • snake
  • Snipe
  • Snow bunting
  • Snowy Owl
  • Solitary Sandpiper
  • Song Thrush
  • South Slob
  • Spanish Sparrow
  • Sparrowhawk
  • Speckled Wood
  • Spectacled Warbler
  • spoonbill
  • Spotless Starling
  • spotted flycatcher
  • Spotted Redshank
  • Spotted Sandpiper
  • Spring
  • Spring Gentian
  • St Eualia
  • Starling
  • stoat
  • stonechat
  • Storm Petrel
  • su
  • sunset
  • surf
  • Swainsons Thrush
  • Swallow
  • Tacumshin
  • Tawin
  • Tawny Pipit
  • Teal
  • Tenerife
  • the burren
  • The Falls
  • The Glebe
  • The Rhine
  • The Rine
  • Thekla Lark
  • Tom DH
  • Trametes versicolor
  • Treact Beach
  • Tree pipit
  • Tree sparrow
  • treecreeper
  • Tufted Duck
  • Tundra Bean Goose
  • Tunnel
  • Turnstone
  • Turtle
  • Turtle Dove
  • Tutsan
  • Twite
  • Velella
  • Velvet Scoter
  • Vilamoura Reedbeds
  • Viviparus Lizard
  • Wales
  • WallBrown
  • wasp
  • water pipit
  • waterfall
  • Waterrail
  • wave
  • waves
  • Waxbill
  • Waxwing
  • Wenffrdd Marsh
  • Western Marsh Orchid
  • Westfield
  • wexford
  • Wheatear
  • Wheater
  • whimbrel
  • Whinchat
  • White foxglove
  • White fronted Geese
  • White Stork
  • White tailed Eagle
  • White Wagtail
  • White-winged Black Tern
  • Whiteford
  • Whitestrand
  • Whitethroat
  • whooper swan
  • wigeon
  • Wild Thyme
  • willow warbler
  • Willowbrook
  • Wood Anenome
  • Wood sandpiper
  • Wood-pigeon
  • Woodcock
  • Wren
  • Yellow browed Warbler
  • Yellow Iris
  • Yellow legged Gull
  • Yellow Wagtail
  • Yellowhammer
  • Zitting Cistocola

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