‘sup?
Stephen McManus writes:
This guy has been outside Carysfort NS [National School, Convent Road, Blackrock, Co Dublin] since early morning. Any idea of what it is?
Anyone?
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‘sup?
Stephen McManus writes:
This guy has been outside Carysfort NS [National School, Convent Road, Blackrock, Co Dublin] since early morning. Any idea of what it is?
Anyone?
Bird in a tree?
Toyota Avensis?
Looks like a taxi to me.
A taxi.
Looks like a Guillemot ! could be wrong :) http://www.birdwatchireland.ie/IrelandsBirds/Auks/Guillemot/tabid/360/Default.aspx
flaps
Looks like a Guillemot (a type of seabird.)
some sort of tree-climbing penguin
I saw that too :)
Might be a Razorbill, hard to tell from that awkward angle.
Don’t you mean “auk-ward”?
Here is another angle https://twitter.com/zynks/status/591287633822797824
Mandarin duck. There’s another Asian ornamental bird whose name escapes me, but looks similar. Very few in Ireland, but here all the same.
http://www.rspb.org.uk/discoverandenjoynature/discoverandlearn/birdguide/name/m/mandarin/
Yep, that’s it, good shot.
Mandarin for sure. Better pic here
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mandarin_duck
See Ted, it’s the Chinese again, great bunch a lads
Every photo of the Mandarin Duck I find they are on water. I wonder why this one has spent most of the day on the same tree.
He might not have heard that the search for Ray Burke is over?
They’ll be looking for Mickey Noonan soon I fear.
(I don’t really fear that tbh)
Sometimes duck just like to hang out on trees. Who are we to question them? ;)
A pigeon sitting on a branch reflecting on existence?
Looks a bit like a Jay?
It may be a Mandarin but it looks a little dull (hard to be sure from the angle). So it could be a Wood duck. There’s feral populations of both in the Dublin area. It’s one or the other. Mandarins nest in trees unusually for ducks. Not sure about Wood ducks.
The mandarin duck was found dead on the same spot last Monday. Obviously there was something wrong with it. Sad.