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Phoenix Park, Dublin.
A bushy-headed Eurasian Jay (Eichelhaher) preens its wings (and why not? It’s a Friday) in dense Autumn leaves.
Lovely plumage.
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‘sup?
Phoenix Park, Dublin.
A bushy-headed Eurasian Jay (Eichelhaher) preens its wings (and why not? It’s a Friday) in dense Autumn leaves.
Lovely plumage.
Beautiful bird with amazing plumage. They are very shy and difficult to see. The usually hide in woodland. Although I do be looking out for them I usually only see them once or twice a year. So great photo. More local birds needed on this site!
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Ah jaypers, not another Corvid thread!
…saw my first Jay about four years ago and in the same year saw a tree creeper and a grey wagtail…it was only when I was on an island and came across a load of house sparrows round a puddle that I realised that I hadn’t seen one in decades…where I lived in Dublin there were loads of magpies, but little else…
…oops…forgot…used to see Jayo quite a lot…
As an 8 year old, I could identify up to close to a hundred different species of bird, had a little notebook with childish sketches of them too. My kids can identify nearly the same amount of Pokemon characters and couldn’t tell the difference between a pigeon and a chicken.
We had no tv until 1981.
The grey wagtail has a most unsuitable name. It sports a plume of golden yellow feathers beneath its tail. Often referred to as yellow wagtail, probably because it’s greyer cousin, the pied wagtail, is more common and thought of as the grey wagtail.
…agree…terrible name for such beautiful plummage…
Wow, have never seen one in real life, beautiful bird but also, where’s the post about today being national Redbreast Day Bodger?
https://www.irishwhiskeymagazine.com/news/robin-redbreast-day/
I have an open bottle of Redbreat 15YO I will be having a drop of later – hot tip here, don’t bother with the 21YO version, you can get two bottles of the 15YO for about the same price and the quality difference is not enough to justify the 21YO price tag (although it’s still an excellent drop.)
Oh and love the post title, excellent as always.
Who’d a-thunk we had so many twitchers.
More welcome than moaners and bitchers.
Found a Eurasian Jay
While out for the day
And decided to take a few pictures.