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Thursday, 8 January 2015

2014 Highlights

I'm Back. After a long (6 month) sabbatical from the blog I decided to start back with a quick review of my highlights of 2014 including last years 'lifers' (L) and a few of my other favourite pics. Hope you like them and hopefully normal service has resumed!

Red Kite - Avoca, Wicklow

Buzzard - Carrig, Wexford

Clouded Yellow (croceus) - Tacumshin, Wexford (L)

Snow Bunting - Bull Island, Dublin (L)

Ring-billed Gull - Wexford Town, Wexford

(Azorean) Yellow-legged Gull - Wexford Town,Wexford (L)

White-tailed Eagle - Wexford Wildfowl Reserve, Wexford (L)

Eel - Carrig, Wexford

Wryneck - Great Saltee Island, Wexford

Egyptian Goose - The Cotswolds, U.K. (L)

Water Rail - The Cotswolds, U.K.

Great Bustard - Wiltshire, U.K. (L)

Red Squirrel - Brownsea Island, Poole, U.K.

Clouded Yellow (helice) - R.S.P.B. Otmoor, U.K. (L)

Barn Owl - Oxford, U.K.

Ring-necked Parakeet - Dusseldorf, Germany (L)

Hoopoe - Carrig, Wexford (L)

Hen Harrier - Great Saltee Island, Wexford

Manx Shearwater - Great Saltee Island, Wexford

Ivory Gull - Tacumshin, Wexford

Sparrowhawk - W.W.R., Wexford

Lesser Canada Goose - W.W.R., Wexford (L)

Little Ringed Plover - Tacumshin, Wexford (L)

Red Fox - Tacumshin, Wexford

Marsh Harrier - W.W.R., Wexford

Hen Harrier (m) - Tacumshin, Wexford

Goldcrest - Tacumshin, Wexford

Kingfisher - Naas, Kildare

Short-eared Owl - South Slob, Wexford

Pied Flycatcher - Great Saltee Island, Wexford (L)

Silver-washed Fritillary - Raven Wood, Wexford (L)

Emperor Dragonfly - Raven Wood, Wexford

Red-breasted Flycatcher - Hook Head, Wexford (L)

Cattle Egret - Tacumshin, Wexford

Red-necked Grebe - Dun Laoghaire, Dublin (L)

Common Rosefinch - Great Saltee Island, Wexford (L)

Ross's Gull - Lady's Island, Wexford (L)

Puffin - Great Saltee Island, Wexford

Common Tern - Tacumshin, Wexford

(leucistic) Starling - Tacumshin, Wexford

Solitary Sandpiper - Rathangan, Wexford (L)

Glossy Ibis - South Slob, Wexford

Irish Hare - Tacumshin, Wexford

Turtle Dove - Great Saltee Island, Wexford (L)

Goshawk - Forst of Dean, U.K. (L)

Crossbill - Forest of Dean, U.K. (L)

Red-legged Partridge - Gloucestershire, U.K. (L)

Marsh Tit - Oxford, U.K. (L)

Iceland Gull - Tallaght, Dublin

Yellow Wagtail (Juv.) - Tacumshin, Wexford (L)


Buff-tip - Carrig, Wexford

Swallow-tailed Moth - Carrig, Wexford (L)

Elephant Hawk-moth - Rathangan, Wexford (L)

Magpie Moth - Carrig, Wexford (L)
Great Spotted Woodpecker - R.S.P.B. Otmoor, U.K. (L)

Canary-shouldered Thorn - Carrig, Wexford