*swerve*
Yesterday.
Strawberry beds, Chapelizod, Dublin 20.
‘Sup?
Phoenix Park, Dublin on Saturday.
A pair of rare mandarin ducks – the adult male in bright plaumage – do as nature intended.
Delicious lightly brushed with soy sauce and fried in peanut oil.
The cosmic ballet continues.
(Sam Boal/Rollingnews.ie)
Orla McDermott writes:
To add to the Swan notifications along the [Grand] Canal in Dublin 8…
Yesterday: Swan War
UPDATE:
Gordon Hunt writes:
Further to your current swan scheisse, spotted this entirely normal sign in Santry over the weekend. There was still one swan lurking around and (s)he seemed fairly pissed off with life. So was either not touched up enough, or touched up too much. It’s a delicate balance.
Molly Malone (arrowed) meets her siblings this afternoon
Further to orphan duck Molly Malone’s travails from earlier.
Some good news, some sad news.
Dublin SPCA writes:
As you may have read earlier we have a lone duckling (Molly) in the shelter since yesterday. This morning having received a call from the public our inspectors went out to a building site looking for the rest of Molly’s family. Unfortunately when they got there only three of the ducklings and the mammy were left. The inspectors managed to catch the three ducklings but sadly mammy flew away. It is never ideal to raise ducklings without their mother but in this case there was just no choice as they would not have survived if left on the site.
Heart-pinging video here
Earlier: Squeak Molly Malone
The freaked out ducks (and swans) at the Grand Canal at Robertsown, Co Kildare.
Underwater cameraman Victor Kutischev writes:
Normally ducks and swans would annoy fishermen and eat their bait. Not these ducks…
Duckmageddon at 3.59







Scenes from the annual Pied Piper Duck Show organised by farmer Barry Harrington for the last 30 years at the Sydney Royal Easter Show.