Showing posts with label great cested grebe. Show all posts
Showing posts with label great cested grebe. Show all posts

July 13, 2011

A Lough in Tipp


Black necked Grebe
Common Sandpiper
Great crested Grebe carrying chicks
 Today i went somewhere new, to a small Lough in Tipparary to try and find a Black necked Grebe,
A host of birds were here, Grebes,Ducks,Gulls,Sandpipers,Lapwing,Coots, Moorhens and all were with young ,making it a very busy pond, Wild Mint grows all over giving off sent in the heat of the day,Dragonflys and Damselflys haunt the reeds, and a Buzzard and a Jay where at the Fairy fort......

March 25, 2010

Lough derg





Spring at Lough derg, Mallards are numerous , the great crested grebes are showing well and a first winter Common gull waits for picnic scraps...