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f my car and walked a bit along a lane a flock of 40 birds flew overhead starlings nope redwings too big way too big fieldfares the rain was too heavy to put my binoculars up to them and then they were gone i got back into the car and drove on further more of these flocks of birds flew over in patches thankfully the rain took a break and i was able to step out of my car again i took out my big sigma 500mm lens to take a shot of one of the birds in flight hoping to zoom in and see what it was the auto focus didn t work the camera wouldn t take a picture all settings were correct but the big sigma lens had decided it wasn t playing along again luckily i had my nikon 18 55mm lens with me so i swapped lenses and the auto focus worked just fine i was able to take some landscape photos i was annoyed though another trip to conns with the sigma lens i think i m on my 3rd but can t think of any other cheaper option to get a 500mm reach misty mountains north west side of lough erne donegal look at the colours i would have loved to have wandered up to the top i took this from the car think it was raining again i was in awe of the vibrant red coloured berries everywhere they were nearly glowing just beautiful driving still through the heavy rain i spotted one of the flocks of birds land in some berry laden trees in a field to my right i pulled up got my binoculars on them and could vaguely make out that they were indeed fieldfares about 200 of them my god never in my life had i seen so many 20 tops would be my most but usually i d only see 1 maybe 2 or 3 i ve always seen more redwings than fieldfares to see the trees and shrubs filled with these large impressive visiting scandinavian icelandic eastern european thrushes was such a treat i really wanted a good look at them well as good as the weather would allow so i pulled my telescope out from the boot and in the pouring freezing rain with numb not working cold hands i set myself up at the roadside and zoomed in on the fieldfares madness to onlookers a complete delight to me you can t really see but the fieldfares were on every branch of every one of those trees in the photo especially up in the trees on the right welcome welcome sorry the weather s so shit but better than where you ve just come from eh fieldfares corracramph lough eske donegal cropped and lightened just to show the fieldfares so as well as the christmas lights going up everywhere the fieldfares are also in town winter is here there was one redwing in there too just for the record i could have stayed watching these winter visitors all day text message received where are you i headed back to a full fry up breakfast being served got to appreciate times like these in the afternoon we went for a drive out to mountcharles st john s point killibegs and ardara the scenery was stunning as was the china collection in nancy s bar the following day we took a trip out to pettigo and then onto rossnowlagh beach again the views and landscapes in all these areas were soul stirring i love donegal s textures colours and rugged wildness i d like to spend more time exploring this county take it all in in pettigo i spotted 2 dippers on the river termin bobbing away on the rocks and flying under the bridge on a great little straight long lane the l2225 out to rossnowlagh beach we passed several small loughs one of them had some more winter visitors this time 10 whooper swans honking away i think it was shivanagh lough looking at google maps 2 dippers on the termin river pettigo donegal some of donegal s long coastline rahan far st john s point donegal didn t hugely have much time to explore here only saw a solitary oystercatcher but there was obviously lots more i didn t manage to see that goes for the whole weekend really the 2 hours i had to myself when i saw the fieldfares was perfect i haven t had much time to be out birding over the last few months so that treat was extremely welcome can t wait to go back to explore more of donegal s landscape and a trip to tory island is beckoning posted by siobhan at 21 19 labels donegal monday 15 october 2012 iwepts october 2012 what time did you have your alarm set saturday morning 5 45am for me crazy time to be getting up i thought as i got up but a 10 30am high tide meant we had to be at bull island for 7 20am it was a cold morning jumping up and down cold and it didn t warm up i could hardly concentrate on my counts ger was banging his mitts together so much 10 of us turned up quite impressive i joined ger and john on their section south of the causeway to sutton numbers weren t massively high or low loads more brent some rh mergansers only 3 shelduck 1 pintail few teal wigeon lots of birders were out with their lenses looking for the yellowlegs but apparently it wasn t showing due to our extra early start we were all counted finished and sat having our coffees by 9 30am john and ger iwebbing oct 2012 posted by siobhan at 22 16 labels bull island dublin iwebs tuesday 2 october 2012 yorkshire swifts i was at my other home over the weekend yorkshire home not dublin home and noticed large numbers of swifts still flying around i was suprised here in dublin they usually leave before the house martins and swallows but in yorkshire they re the last to leave other goings on included a redkite swooping down onto our patio to take some food which had been left out for the farm cats quite amazing oh and 2 buzzards and 2 red kites fighting it out over a dead rabbit in a field next to the house and a quite unusual leucistic rook in morrison s carpark in harrogate that s all posted by siobhan at 22 13 labels yorkshire home tuesday 25 september 2012 eric john s advanced photography course a year on from eric s beginner photography course was today s advanced photography fieldtrip again at sycamore hill wicklow i left drimnagh just before 7 30am and was at sycamore for 8 15am a coffee and away to wexford well that was the plan but i decided i d stay behind with katie and celia who were there for a beginner lesson with wings magazine front page hogger john fox the plan was to join eric and the others down in wexford once we d finished a quick overview of camera settings fstops shutter speed all that fun stuff but as it turned out once we d finished our class we decided to stay local and practice some photography round the house with a drive down to killoughter to possibly see the juv osprey which has been seen around broad lough celia and katie putting john s teaching to practice on the birds in the garden after another coffee thanks hazel and having asked john all the questions we could think of john drove us down to killoughter so we could practice some more in the field photography killoughter railway station co wicklow depth of field lesson this photo was taken at f5 iso 320 1 640 speed i focused on the larger stone in the centre of the photo as you can see the depth of field at f5 is very shallow only the immediate area i m focused on is actually in focus and there s a soft blur everywhere else this is the setting most birders use at f5 you get a lot of light hitting your camera sensor so you get a quicker shutter speed which allows sharper photos ideally you d use f4 but my 150 500 lens only goes to f5 i took the same shot for every f stop on my camera the final fstop being f22 this is the f22 shot still focused on the larger stone you can see that the smaller f stop of 22 gives a much larger depth of field and now nearly everything is in focus this f stop is pretty useless for bird photography as the shutter speed slows right down so any movement at all fro the bird will turn out blurred this was 1 30 compared to the 1 640 at f5 once you cross the railway line at killoughter you turn right towards bray walk down some fields past this derelict building on a bit further and the lough is behind some hedges on the right past an old gravel quarry i d never been before so it was nice to go somewhere different thanks to hazel for showing us how to get there derelict building on way to broad lough end garda intimidation disband special branch unfortunately i didn t actually get any decent photos to show off what i learnt today from john we also did manage a far away sighting of the juvenile osprey flying over the north end of the lough it started to look as though it was going to fly right over us but instead turned away and flew back behind the far trees juvenile osprey at broad lough wicklow it s assumed from southern europe on migration to africa when the osprey disappeared behind the trees we waited another 45 minutes taking photos of some far away bartailed godwits ringed plover and dunlin when there was still no sign of it returning we decided we d leave and see what was down at ecnr 2 minutes after we left broad lough the osprey apparently re appeared swooped over the lough and grabbed two fish one in each tallon that s right an osprey swooped over the lough and caught a fish in each tallon we could have seen it if we d waited another 2 minutes but that s how it goes gutted com this ringed plover was 0 3 iso 320 f6 3 1 1000 nice but a little too dark and this juvenile stonechat was 0 7 iso 320 f6 3 1 320 which actually doesn t look too bad in this photo male stonechat great to see them about again iso 320 f6 3 1 160 very slow shutter speed i think today was the second of several other courses being run at sycamore hill from now until december there s more info on all sycamore hill courses on eric s bird s ireland website here http www birdsireland com workshops i d obviously recommend all of them having already taken most of the courses at this stage huge thanks to john eric and hazel for creating such a lovely learning environment posted by siobhan at 17 55 labels sycamore hill wicklow saturday 15 september 2012 iwepts sept 2012 7 30am the wooden bridge clontarf sat 15th september 2012 7 35am bull island lots of daylight still jerry back of john ger and the new boy denis helen and laura joined us and the fun began we were given our sections we started counting the fun drained away not to put anyone off volunteering for iwebs within the 2nd sentence because it is a good thing to do but as soon as we started counting we were quickly reminded that iwebs by its nature is daunting well if you want to try and be accurate it can be daunting if you didn t care you could look out at the mudflats look at all the waders react with a meh make up some numbers shout finished and go drink coffee but we are good little volunteers so we get to bitch and moan because if you want to get good counts iwebs is a bit of a head wreck unless of course you get to do the beach then you just get to sit on a rock sip coffee and look wistfully out to sea so anyways me and denis got on with our counts bitched and moaned sign of a good volunteer decided that sections 3 and 4 were extremely difficult by far the hardest of all sections in ireland congratulated ourselves on being amazing people for giving it a go made up a master plan of how to do the section differently next month and before we knew it we were finished luckily there weren t actually all that many birds around today hardly any in fact so we finished up relatively early and to be honest it was probably one of the easiest iwebs counts i ve done so far thanks denis the tide didn t rush in the weather was great it was very calm and still no wind no rain no fog no mist no watery eyes no snotty nose no frozen hands no tantrums it was warm maybe 13º so the two of us were able to take our time chat count we even managed a good look at a peregrine perched on a post which denis spotted of note from today s count were early arrivals of brent geese possibly around 100 i counted 240 common gulls never seen anymore than 20 in the one go so to see 240 was incredible no dunlin in our sections no knot no pintails no shovelers 4 shelduck not many oystercatchers in comparison to the numbers me and jim saw in august no plovers at all that we saw 50ish gbb gulls helen got wigeon and teal and the perched peregrine so that was our sept iwebs started 8ish finished by 9 40am after iwebs i drove over to crumlin to see if i could see this raven being reported by stephen lawlor on irish birding he s also managed to see an adult med gull clonmacnoise roundabout bangor circle crumlin buzzard soaring over crumlin drimnagh and merlin landsdowne valley park drimnagh in the last few weeks of course i didn t see any from his list today but i did see a common gull in with the herring gulls and black headed gulls on clonmacnoise roundabout adult common gull clonmacnoise roundabout crumlin dublin 12 size of common gull in comparison to the juv herring gull and black headed gull in distance adult common gull juvenile starling crumlin dublin 12 adult starling crumlin dublin 12 there was a flock of around 120 just look at the brush stroke precision of the plumage not the sharpest photo of a rook but i love that dagger bill and near blue tones going through the feathers 2 juvenile rooks crumlin would you just get off whev so there you go there s a post for you no more official complaints to the blog ombudsman please cold weather and long dark nights make for lots of posts warm weather and long bright evenings make for few posted by siobhan at 20 44 labels iwebs tuesday 21 august 2012 pretend iwepts aug 2012 bull island high tide was 1pm 4m so we met at 10 30am to give us a few hours to get to grips with what was around i was amazed that there wasn t a single oystercatcher north of the causeway usually due to my poor wader id skills i volunteer to count the 1000 s of oystercatchers in this area so to see none was a real eye opener it made me realise how full on migration to the bull actually is we didn t see any knot that s up for discussion no teal no brent no wigeon no pintails 34 shelduck no bartailed godwits but 150ish blacktailed north of the causeway 1 dunlin 150 blacktailed godwits bull island aug 18th 2012 points for the dunlin and the mystery bird dunlin bottom left mystery bird top when we saw it fly off we saw it had seemed to have black legs knots have yellowy legs the species of this bird is probably very obvious to lots of people looking at this photo and i think it s probably a knot but who knows we saw at least 14 little egrets on the bull 46 were seen today 21 aug according to the bull island website black tailed godwit in summer plumage bull island aug 18th 2012 first curlew i d seen for months 2nd curlew much shorter bill much shorter bill and obvious markings on the head my first ever whimbrel there have been large numbers of whimbrel on the bull over the last few months i think i saw 50 listed at one point there was only 1 that i saw actually i ve just looked at tom s bull island website and he saw 64 whimbrel yesterday my one and only whimbrel a bird i ve scanned and scanned for over the years south of the causeway jim was able to initially id then differentiate 25 grey plovers f...