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The Patient Watchers of Fota Wildlife Park

Two herons, two very different moods. The first one had clambered up into the bare branches like it owned the place, scruffy chest plumes blowing about and that sharp yellow eye scanning the park below. The second was posing in profile on the netting above one of the enclosures, side-lit by late sun that caught every layer of grey and white in its plumage. Fota is full of exotic species you've travelled to see, and then you spend ten minutes photographing the local heron because it simply […]

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Donncha Ó Caoimh 2d ago

The Patient Watchers of Fota Wildlife Park

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Allan Apr 20

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Donncha Apr 19

An Emerald at Fota

This handsome iguana was lounging on a branch in the hothouse at Fota Wildlife Park this morning. He didn't seem bothered by the passing crowds: kids, parents and inquisitive photographers with the wrong lenses. A bit of cropping and I had the frame I wanted. That red-rimmed stare never left me though, watching from the log, belying the relaxed sprawl.

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Donncha Ó Caoimh Apr 19

An Emerald at Fota

This handsome iguana was lounging on a branch in the hothouse at Fota Wildlife Park this morning. He didn’t seem bothered by the passing crowds: kids, parents and inquisitive photographers with the wrong lenses. A bit of cropping and I had the frame I wanted. That re...

https://inphotos.org/2026/04/19/an-emerald-at-fota/

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