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Irish Birder Transplanted to Finland. Rare Bird Finder. Interested in Raptors, Seabirds & visible migration. https://helhathnobirdies.blogspot.com/?m=1
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On this date I found a Black Duck at Kilcolman, #cork. Black Duck remains a genuinely rare #irishrarebirds. Long stayers make it a very gettable species, but as #selffound goes, few people have scored it for their lists. #birds 🪶 #birding #birdwatching #irishbirding

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Uncanny. 🤣

submitted 21 hours ago • 2 comments

Hawfinch over the garden becomes the first #gardenlist tick in months and first of 2025. 😎😍 #birds #birding #finland Now 136 species on the list.

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Arriving home, no bins, and a familiar shape in the trees by the lake. The telephoto zoom on my phone helps me out. The 2nd Cal Goshawk which has been hanging around the garden a few weeks now. #birds 🪶 #birding #birdwatching #finland

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FFS. www.bbc.com/news/live/c6...

submitted 3 days ago • 2 comments

#irishrarebirds

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Very disturbing to see how many Irish birders still over on Twitter have gone down the rabbit hole of following, responding to and reposting racist/race baiting or anti-LGBTQ accounts. And yet...with most of the he individuals I'm seeing... I'm not all that surprised. 🤦

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

Inhale. Slow, calming exhale. Inhale. Slow, calming exhale. Inhale. Slow, calming exhale.

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

Ahhh Owl Fest. Must run another one sometime. Can't beat a good owling trip. #birding #birds 🪶 #PygmyOwl #BlackGrouse #Finland

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

Have had a similar experience myself in years gone by, with a small bird at the Lough, #Cork city. It's a bit of a mind melter to see these things in this scenario. #IrishRareBirds #IrishBirding #birds 🪶

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

This thread. It's definitely a thing in #irishbirding. Reminds me of when a particularly two-faced admin of the Whatsapp bird news group said it was "bizarre" to include foreign birders in the news group. He sure ran quick when they were finding Buffleheads though. #transactional

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

Don't be gaslit: They are Nazis. This is a Nazi salute. They are not hiding it, or dog whistling, they are announcing it. They have come out as Nazis. Show the people in your life these images all together. Make them understand this is not an accident, or a fluke. It is happening here.

submitted 9 days ago • 55 comments

This. 😂

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

Yes please.

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Virtually every "system" or resource in #IrishBirding is in dire need of an overhaul. The classification of what is rare and what is not most obviously among them. You can download the best available classification list here: band.us/band/81990195

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Bewick's Swan is a rarity in Ireland. Say it with me. Bewick's Swan is a rarity in Ireland. #irishrarebirds #irishbirding

submitted 12 days ago • 1 comment

And yet they are not on #TheIRBC rarity list because reasons...

submitted 12 days ago • 1 comment

Grey-Headed Woodpecker singing. #Spring is definitely on it's way, with more and more light in the morning 😍. 🔊 Up at the very start of this video. #birds 🪶 #birding #birdwatching #woodpeckers #finland

submitted 13 days ago • 1 comment

By the Hammer of Thor, what a bird!! 😍

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More Lynx tracks this evening as we tracked it's route. Here it decided to cross the open ice of our frozen lake. Really beautiful tracks in a beautiful setting. #Lynx #TheLynxEffect #IDhawdIDhawAPuddyTat 😍😎😍 #finland #Ilves

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Lynx tracks in fresh snow by the house this morning. How cool is that? I dhawd I dhaw a Puddy Tat. 😍🫣😍 #Lynx #TheLynxEffect #Finland

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#irishrarebirds

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#irishrarebirds

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White-Winged Tern, Cruisetown, #Louth. 1 of my digi identifications with the finder misidentifying it as a Black Tern. Juv Marsh Terns are fantastic beasts. 😍 I ticked WWT at Kilcoole, Wicklow. 1 of my earliest twitching memories, with AGP same day. #IrishRareBirds #birds 🪶 #birding #irishbirding

submitted 18 days ago • 1 comment