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  1. An Madadh Rua

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    Saw this also today. He looks like a heron, flew like a heron, hunted like a heron....but he was smaller than a heron and he was persil white.

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  2. Jeannie960 Gold Member Gold Member

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    That's gorgeous. Wonder if it's some sort of Albino? Everything in nature has it's own version of Albinism
     
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    BFL, was thinking of you today...

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  4. An Madadh Rua

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    Johniebhoy, I know you like robins. Saw this one in South Armagh today singing away.

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    Egrets, they sometimes are seen at Lough Neagh
     
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    fabulous looking birds. I will be looking out for these
     
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    One from the park, the other from our garden....

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  10. Jeannie960 Gold Member Gold Member

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    Think he's yours :56:I found that image to compare :50:
     
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    Ours had a lovely ponytail also. Nice bird.
     
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  13. Johniebhoy.

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    Stunning pictures Red, the last one is a hanger.

    Cracking pictures again Red, how close to him did you get?
    I’ve tried to get a decent shot of one but can’t get anywhere near the wee bassas.

     
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    Brilliant pics Idiotech, what’s the story with the last picture?
    Is there a story behind the dog on the grave?
     
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    Johnie, we were about 25 metres from him. We were on a footpath and he was just ignoring every passerby.

    The wee robin is probably at a loss now. Given his vantage point, he was probably one of the sniper team. :celt_2:
     
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    Looked this up and apparently this is Goblet waxcap fungi Hygrocybe cantharellus[​IMG]
     
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  17. Idioteque I’ll laugh until my head comes off

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    This is an extract about the grave
    Monument to the famous Victorian bare-knuckle boxer, Thomas Sayers (1826-1865). This Grade II listed marble structure is considered "one of the jewels of London's best-known necropolis" (Sweet). It has a pedimented tomb-chest with ornamental edges to the corners of the sloping "roof" and a pedimental relief depicting a beribboned wreath. Below that is a portrait medallion of Sayers. In front rests a life-size sculpture of Sayers's loyal and much-loved dog Lion, keeping guard over his master's grave. Peaceful as it all seems now, according to a breathless and disapproving account in Lloyd's Weekly Newspaper, thirty-nine-year-old Sayers was buried in 1865 amid extraordinary scenes of "irredeemable blackguardism, brutal levity, and barbaric ferocity" the like of which surely "never disgraced the hallowed precincts of that most hallowed of spots
     
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    You know I had never of this guy (Tom Sayers) and that photo of his grave is amazing as is his story. I did a wee bit of reading and came across another photo taken of that grave and your's is still remarkably preserved as is his story. I've said it before this thread really is educational :50:

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    Sligo cemetery this morning.
     
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