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Birds and nature photography, based in East Cork, Ireland. All images my own and ©️ me. Migrating from @BC_Gemma at the other place.

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Thanks Rob!

06.03.2026 19:55 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Gull chick with its beak open, trying to persuade its parent to feed it.

Gull chick with its beak open, trying to persuade its parent to feed it.

Feed me!
Swallow-tailed Gull and chick, Galapagos Feb '26
#birds #BirdsSeenIn2026 #Ecuador

06.03.2026 09:36 👍 21 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 0

Central and South America!

06.03.2026 06:12 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Purple bird with very long legs!

Purple bird with very long legs!

Purple bird with very long legs!

Purple bird with very long legs!

Purple Gallinule- those feet !!
Galapagos Feb 2026 #birds #BirdsSeenIn2026 #Ecuador

05.03.2026 21:11 👍 47 🔁 6 💬 2 📌 0
Hummingbird on a branch with a feather in its beak

Hummingbird on a branch with a feather in its beak

Fawn-breasted Brilliant after a fight with a tell-tale feather in its beak.
Hummingbirds may be pretty, but they are also feisty little birds!
Pichincha, Ecuador Feb 2026
#birds #hummingbirds #BirdsSeenIn2026

05.03.2026 10:30 👍 37 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 0
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A resident Rock Pipit (in the background) photobombing the rare visiting Water Pipit at Ballinclamper, Co Waterford - giving a nice comparison of the two species! #Birds #BirdID #BirdsSeenIn2026

04.03.2026 10:29 👍 28 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0
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Water Pipit - a rare winter visitor to Ireland.
Ballinclamper, Co. Waterford 02/03/2026
#Birds #RareBirds ##phonescoped #BirdsSeenIn2026

04.03.2026 06:02 👍 23 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0
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Hawfinch, a rare visitor to Ireland, at Curraghchase Forest Park, Co. Limerick today #birds #BirdsSeenIn2026

03.03.2026 18:42 👍 45 🔁 6 💬 1 📌 0
Grumpy-looking Barbet with a bright red head.

Grumpy-looking Barbet with a bright red head.

Looking like an Angry Birds character - Red-headed Barbet, Pichincha, Ecuador. #Birds #AngryBirds #BirdsSeenIn2026

01.03.2026 19:18 👍 38 🔁 6 💬 2 📌 0
Long-legged  black and white wader, feeding in shallow water.

Long-legged black and white wader, feeding in shallow water.

Black-necked Stilt, Santa Cruz #Galapagos #Birds #BirdsSeenIn2026

01.03.2026 19:07 👍 28 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
A purplish black bird shining in the sunlight.

A purplish black bird shining in the sunlight.

Shiny Cowbird - looking very shiny indeed 😉 #Birds #Ecuador #BirdsSeenIn2026

01.03.2026 09:54 👍 21 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
Hummingbird hovering by flowers.

Hummingbird hovering by flowers.

Western Emerald, Puembo Birding Garden, Quito, Ecuador. #birds #Hummingbirds #BirdsSeenIn2026

28.02.2026 20:35 👍 57 🔁 10 💬 0 📌 0
Side view of the head of a Red-footed Booby.

Side view of the head of a Red-footed Booby.

Red-footed Booby profile (dark morph). #birds #Galapagos #BirdsSeenIn2026

28.02.2026 06:34 👍 40 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 1
Hummingbird with a speckled breast, perched on a branch.

Hummingbird with a speckled breast, perched on a branch.

A very shy Speckled Hummingbird in the Ecuadorian rainforest. #birds #Hummingbirds #BirdsSeenIn2026

28.02.2026 06:31 👍 79 🔁 13 💬 0 📌 0
A tiny Sandpiper with yellow legs feeding in shallow water.

A tiny Sandpiper with yellow legs feeding in shallow water.

The diminutive Least Sandpiper, San Cristóbal #Galapagos #Birds #Waders #BirdsSeenIn2026

27.02.2026 18:15 👍 30 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0
American Oystercatcher with red beak, red eye-ring, and pink legs, walking on a coral beach.

American Oystercatcher with red beak, red eye-ring, and pink legs, walking on a coral beach.

American Oystercatcher, Isla Fernandina #Galapagos #Birds #BirdsSeenIn2026

27.02.2026 05:15 👍 45 🔁 7 💬 0 📌 0
Fluffy chick (beginning its 1st moult)on a coral beach with cacti in the background.

Fluffy chick (beginning its 1st moult)on a coral beach with cacti in the background.

Blue-footed Booby chick, Genovesa, Galapagos Islands. #Birds #BirdsSeenIn2026

26.02.2026 17:33 👍 58 🔁 14 💬 1 📌 0
Caracara (bird of prey) perched on a trunk

Caracara (bird of prey) perched on a trunk

Yellow-headed Caracara, Rio Napo, Ecuador. #Birds #BirdsSeenIn2026 #Raptors

26.02.2026 12:03 👍 35 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 0
Frigatebird with white chest perched on a branch

Frigatebird with white chest perched on a branch

Great Frigatebird (female) #Galapagos #Birds #Ecuador #BirdsSeenIn2026

24.02.2026 10:54 👍 24 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
Mockingbird on a sandy beach

Mockingbird on a sandy beach

Española Mockingbird
#Galapagos #birds #BirdsSeenIn2026

23.02.2026 13:07 👍 38 🔁 12 💬 0 📌 0
Pretty hummingbird with white "leggings" and a long tail with round feathers at the tips.

Pretty hummingbird with white "leggings" and a long tail with round feathers at the tips.

White-booted Racket-tail, Ecuador. #birds #Hummingbirds

23.02.2026 11:32 👍 35 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 0
Colourful crab covered in foam.

Colourful crab covered in foam.

Sally Lightfoot crab starting to moult - producing foam to help shed its old exoskeleton. #Galapagos

23.02.2026 06:12 👍 14 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Small Hummingbird, calling.

Small Hummingbird, calling.

Small Hummingbird, perched.

Small Hummingbird, perched.

Andean Emerald, Ecuador. #Hummingbirds #Birds #BirdsSeenIn2026

22.02.2026 12:47 👍 57 🔁 9 💬 1 📌 0
Striking looking Flycatcher with bright red body plumage, perched on a twig.

Striking looking Flycatcher with bright red body plumage, perched on a twig.

Vermilion Flycatcher, Ecuador. #Birds #BirdsSeenIn2026

22.02.2026 05:33 👍 53 🔁 9 💬 0 📌 0
Siskin with a seed head in its beak

Siskin with a seed head in its beak

Hooded Siskin- Puembo, Quito, Ecuador.
#Birds #BirdsSeenIn2026

21.02.2026 17:15 👍 35 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 0
Tarantula on the trunk of a banana tree.

Tarantula on the trunk of a banana tree.

Spider with blue "net" ready to throw on its prey.

Spider with blue "net" ready to throw on its prey.

Tarantula and Net-casting Spider from the Amazon Basin, Ecuador. #Arachnids

21.02.2026 12:03 👍 18 🔁 3 💬 2 📌 0
Otter eating a fish

Otter eating a fish

Giant River Otter, Sacha Lodge, Ecuador #Otter

20.02.2026 09:13 👍 25 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 1
Great Frigatebird chick being fed by its father.

Great Frigatebird chick being fed by its father.

Feeding time for the Great Frigatebird chick.
Genovese Island #Galapagos #Birds #BirdsSeenIn2026

19.02.2026 20:09 👍 31 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
Scrub Tanager with a mouthful of banana

Scrub Tanager with a mouthful of banana

Scrub Tanager at Puembo Birding Garden, Quito, Ecuador. #Birds #BirdsSeenIn2026

19.02.2026 11:45 👍 31 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 0
Head of an alligator-like Caiman just above the water surface.

Head of an alligator-like Caiman just above the water surface.

Spectacled Caiman - Pilchicocha lake, Amazon basin, Ecuador.

18.02.2026 20:15 👍 25 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0