Nice to see the Great Northern Divers / Common Loons in Ballycotton Bay again. It must be the great seafood that brings them all the way back here every winter! #Birds

Dunlin #Birds

Cattle Egrets, East Cork - they always look a bit bewildered to me ... #Birds

Somehow, the eel wasn't quite the quick snack that the Cormorant thought it would be ... #Birds

Purple Sandpiper at Ballinclamper, Co. Waterford today. #Birds #BirdsSeenIn2025 ##IrishBirding

The Kildeer at the South Slobs, Co. Wexford today. #Birds #Rare #IrishBirding #BirdsSeenIn2025

Hooded Crow shelling mussels - with very impressive skill! #Birds

Long-tailed Tit feasting on Spindle berries, East Cork. #Birds

Who’s a pretty boy, then? #Robin #Birds

European Greenfinch, a.k.a the Green Linnet. #Birds

Handsome juvenile male Black Redstart at Ballycotton Pier, just passing through on migration. #ParadoxusMorph #Birds

Spotted Sandpiper, Co. Waterford today. #Rare #Birds #IrishBirding #BirdsSeenIn2025

A fine fresh fish for the Great Crested Grebe. #Birds

Great White Egret and Little Egret at The Gearagh, Co. Cork. #Birds #BirdsSeenIn2025

Red-breasted Flycatcher at Helvick Head 8/11/25 - another vagrant from the east. #Birds #BirdsSeenIn2025 #rare

The tiny Pallas's Warbler at Helvick Head, Co. Waterford today. #rare #birds #BirdsSeenIn2025 @watbirds.bsky.social #IrishBirding

Juvenile Common Kestrel, Ballycotton. #Birds

Spot the odd one out... (for the inintentional Paul McCartney reference - see ALT text 😉) #birds

The male Isabelline Shrike in Co Wexford today- an extremely rare vagrant and only the first ever adult male recorded in Ireland. #birds #BirdsSeenIn2025 #IrishBirding

Goose gymnastics, East Cork - Pink-footed Goose does a somersault while a bemused Mute Swan looks on. #Birds

One of several Great White Egrets currently at The Gearagh, Co. Cork. Regular winter visitors now, surely they will stay and breed sometime in the not so distant future. #Birds #IrishBirding

It was a pleasant surprise to come across this Pink-footed Goose in East Cork yesterday - a scarce winter visitor to Ireland from the Arctic Tundra. #Birds #BirdsSeenIn2025 #phonescoped

Fine Catch! Cormorant with Perch at The Lough, Cork. #Birds #Cork

1st winter male Ring-necked Duck at Castlemartyr Lake, East Cork, 22/10/25. #Rare #BirdsSeenIn2025 #Birds #IrishBirding

Great White Egret at Cuskinny Marsh Nature Reserve with a local Grey Heron who appears surprisingly tolerant of this exotic visitor! #birds @birdwatchireland.bsky.social @limosawit.bsky.social

If at first you don't succeed .. In the rain yesterday at Harper's Island, a Hooded Crow eventually drives a Sparrowhawk away from the small wader that the Sparrowhawk had just caught. @IslandWetlands @BirdWatchIE #phonescoped #kleptoparasitism @birds

The lovely Northern Parula on the Beara Peninsula yesterday - a great find by Kieran Grace and only the 4th Irish record of this vagrant N. American warbler. #Rare #Birds #BirdsSeenIn2025

The Isabelline Wheatear at Ballinclamper, Co. Waterford, today. #birds #rare #BirdsSeenIn2025

Slightly disheveled Shoveler #Birds

Northern Wheatear, Ballycotton- stopping off here for a rest and a feed before continuing on his annual migration to overwinter in Africa. #Birds

Migrant Hawker mating wheel at The Gearagh, Co. Cork. 23/09/25 #Dragonflies #IrishNature @johncreedon.bsky.social

Glossy Ibis at The Gearagh, Co. Cork - part of the recent large influx into Britain and Ireland. #BirdsSeenIn2025 #Birds @johncreedon.bsky.social

The distinctive Heermann's Gull, seen on our pelagic trip off Vancouver Island #Birds #BirdsSeenIn2025 #Gulls

Curlew Sandpipers, Ballycotton- passing through on their migration from the Siberian tundra to Africa. What a huge journey for such a small wader. #Birds #migration #BirdsSeenIn2025

Buzzard with a mud-caked beak, East Cork. Amazing to think that such a large raptor will forage for worms as part of its diet. #Birds #IrishBirding #BirdsSeenIn2025

Sooty Shearwater in the fog - on a pelagic out of Tofino BC, August '25 #Birds #BirdsSeenIn2025

Eastern Grey Squirrel (black morph), British Columbia.

Male House Finch at Richmond Nature Park, Vancouver. 02 Sept'25 #Birds #BirdsSeenIn2025

Glaucous-winged Gull and chick, Race Rocks, Vancouver Island. #birds #gulls #BirdsSeenIn2025

Black-capped Chickadee, Vancouver #Birds

Surfbird - well camouflaged among the molluscs on the rocky shore. Vancouver Island 26/08/25 #Birds #BirdsSeenIn2025

Stunningly iridescent Brewer's Blackbird- Vancouver Island, August 2025.

A rarity hanging out with 2 Ruff at Ballycotton today - Pectoral Sandpiper. (Nice find by @seancronin1973.bsky.social) #Birds #BirdsSeenIn2025 #IrishRareBirds

That tail! Bewick's Wren, Vancouver. #Birds

Caspian Terns with those amazing carrot-like bills. Discovery Islands, Vancouver. #Birds #BirdsSeenIn2025

Anna's Hummingbird (male) - Vancouver, British Columbia. #Birds #BirdsSeenIn2025 #Hummingbirds

A cutie - Chipping Sparrow, Uplands Pk, Victoria, BC #Birds #BirdsSeenIn2025

Douglas Squirrel, Richmond Nature Park, British Colombia.

California Gull, Vancouver Island. #Birds #Gulls #BritishColombia

Turkey Vulture soaring over Uplands Park, Vancouver Island.