I noticed this very ambitious spider today hanging out in the middle of its web strung across the entire surface of this 12 square metre window on the front of my house.

It’s just a spot in the first picture but it is there if you zoom in.

#spiders #WildIreland

There was a kestrel out trying to hunt yesterday and it was being constantly harassed by some of the house martins or swallows that nest nearby. It eventually gave up.

I need a much longer lens for this sort of stuff but you can tell it’s a hawk of some sort at least.

#WildIreland

On what my grandmother would have called a ‘pet day’, an unexpectedly fine day more or less, I got treated to a fabulous array of insect life on a walk out in the dune grasses of the Cunnigar.

I saw about a dozen of these huge Blue Emperor Dragonflies, hundreds of bumblebees and bees, and thousands of Burnett moths.

#biodiversity #WildIreland #photography #waterford #ireland

The somewhat domesticated pheasant is back. I think it might actually have some sort of injury and is actually unable to fly as it only seems to walk/hop around.

#WildIreland
#waterford #birds #birdphotography

My favourite group of choughs were back to accompany me on my walk this morning. They were very shy today but just as chatty as ever.

#WildIreland
#waterford

This definitely looked like a kestrel to me in flight, it was frozen rock solid in the air occasionally jinking a bit as it followed its target on the ground. It was a long way off in poor light so the photos aren’t great.

However, in the second shot I’m pretty certain I can see jesses strached to its talons and it seems too dark to be a kestrel. I wonder if there is a falconer around here.

#WildIreland
#waterford