My Miscellany

...make hay. Most of this week was dull and grey - some of it was almost like winter apart from being warm. Thursday was one of those oppr...

A few other ducks from the park on Monday... Female Mandarin duck - smaller and daintier than the mallards Female tufted duck A...

 I had a lovely walk in Farmleigh and the park yesterday, although it was horribly heavy and muggy. I went to Farmleigh first, and started f...

These little chicks are so much later than the ones on the canal or even in the park, but apart from the solitary singleton I saw way back, ...

On the whole it's been a pretty grey and gloomy week. Here are two flashes of colour which brightened it up. We've had goldfinches...

There are no flies on this little baby robin - he knows just where Momma flies to to pick up those tasty titbits she brings back. Actually,...

I've seen the new robin fledglings briefly - scurrying across the shed roof, and hopping around in the bushes. This little one must be ...

Two separate mornings, just gathering a few pictures together. The swans were yesterday, in Phoenix Park. My sister was up again (a video ed...

C had an extra birthday present last week. I was working up here and heard what I was pretty sure were long-tailed tits, so I went down to s...