A charming Barbary ground squirrel enjoying a munch in a ring of flowers that are currently carpeting the otherwise bleak coastal and mountainsides following heavy rains on Fuerteventura.
Frosty love carved on an old bench on the midwinter solstice.
A common sandpiper on the move.
Wow! I'm currently watching a barn owl perched on my front gate on CCTV for the past 15 minutes or so. In the swirling fog.
Up periscope. A great white egret keeping a not so low profile behind one of the many stumps at the Gearagh.
Yay! A new home record.
Morning coffee in bed and a great egret flew past the window. Presumably on its way from the Gearagh to Duniskey.
A brief spell of sunshine recently and this Robin was singing away, and wishing everyone a very happy Christmas and New Year.
Incoming grey heron!
Get off my patch egret!
Some of the local residents while walking down to see the goosanders at Harty's quay in Cork.
A pestered buzzard,
A meditating grey heron,
A sleeping little egret, and
A framed robin.
Variations on the superb drake Goosander at Harty's Quay, Cork, today. This diving duck is a member of the sawbill family, named for their serrated bills as seen in the close up photo, for catching fish. No sign of the females so far.
