SATURDAY CRITTERS

Danny, a birding friend from N. Ireland took these photographs.  They are mainly the comical Puffin and the few Razorbill.

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I appreciate your visit and comments.

Many thanks Danny for sharing your wonderful photography with us.

 I hope you enjoyed this post today.  

 

EIDER FLAPPING HIS WINGS

Again this is one of Danny’s photograph that he took on Rathlin Island, N. Ireland  An Eider having a “stretch”!

The gardeners do a great job.

 

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Thank you Danny for sharing this photograph with us.

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WILD BIRD WEDNESDAY

These photographs were taken by Danny, a birding friend from N. Ireland on Rathlin Island.  They are Puffin and Common Guillemot nesting on the cliff face. 

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I appreciate your visit and comments.

Danny, many thanks for sharing these photographs.

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SATURDAY CRITTERS

These photographs were taken by Danny, a birding friend from N. Ireland on Rathlin Island.  These are Fulmar nesting on the cliff face.  

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I appreciate your visit and comments.

Thanks Danny for this photograph.

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WILD BIRD WEDNESDAY

These photographs were taken by Danny, a birding friend from N. Ireland on Rathlin Island.  They are of Razorbill nesting on the cliff face. 

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I appreciate your visit and comments.

Many thanks to Danny for sharing these shots.

 I hope you enjoyed this post today.  

 

SATURDAY CRITTERS

This photograph of a Common Seal was taken by Danny, a birding friend from N. Ireland on Rathlin Island.  

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I appreciate your visit and comments.

Many thanks Danny for sharing this photograph with us.

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GOOD FENCES

This is the ferry that takes passengers across from the mainland to Rathlin Island.

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Thanks Danny for this photograph.

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WILD BIRD WEDNESDAY

These photographs were taken by Danny, a birding friend from N. Ireland on Rathlin Island.  They are Kittiwake birds nesting on the cliff face. 

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I appreciate your visit and comments.

Many thanks Danny for sharing these photographs with us.

 I hope you enjoyed this post today.  

 

EIDER ON RAHTLIN ISLAND

These photographs were taken by Danny, a birding friend from N. Ireland on Rathlin Island.  It is a beautiful Eider duck.  

I appreciate your visit and comments.

MAny thanks to Danny for sharing this photograph.

 I hope you enjoyed this post today.  

 

WILD BIRD WEDNESDAY

These photographs were taken by Danny, a birding friend from N. Ireland on Rathlin Island.  They are Common Guillemot, Kittiwake and the forth shot is of a Black Guillemot.

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I appreciate your visit and comments.

Many thanks to Danny for sharing these photographs with us.

 I hope you enjoyed this post today.  

 

SATURDAY CRITTERS - EXTRA - GANNETS off Rathlin Island

These photographs of the Gannet were taken by Danny, one of my bird group.

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Very many thanks to ALL of you who left comments on my blog while I was away in Australia.  I appreciated every one especially when I did not have time to comment myself.  I am now trying to adjust and get back to porridge as they say (here in Ireland). I hope to have edited some of my photographs to show you next week.

GOOD FENCES

I took some of my bird group to Rathlin Island for the day and these re some fence images on the ferry and from this passing boat.

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I have just returned from my old caravan were I do not have Internet and am about to now travel to Scotland so I want to thanks all who left comments and I am sorry this summer I am going to be away a lot and unfortunately I have not the time to comment on your posts.

I hope you continue to visit as I am hoping to schedule my posts in for you to look at.

SUNDAY THOUGHT

How do you know what is going to happen tomorrow?

For the length of your lives is as uncertain as the morning fog—now you see it; soon it is gone.

James 4:14

Photographed on my way to Rathlin Island.

The first shot was as it was, the second one I edited.

19 June 2017

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Have a Blessed Sunday.

SCAVENGER HUNT SUNDAY

These are my contributions for the SCAVENGER HUNT SUNDAY.  This week I visited Islay Island, Scotland for the day. Later in the week I attended a Tea Dance and workshops at the Ulster Hall in Belfast which were organnised by Kaleidscope.  Enjoy this post.

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1.Leaves

As it is autumn, the above and below images are some of the LEAVES I found to photograph in Northern Ireland.  A wonderful time of the year.

                                                                                          2. A Hat

The man in this straw HAT below was waiting to go into the Tea Dance and when I arrived back off the train into my town after the dance, I knew I needed another 'HAT' shot so I went into a shop and this sale assistant was a great sport and very happy to wear one of their hats for me.

3. Stop

As I said, I visited Islay and this shot above was were our boat had that come to a STOP at the Marina.  Below the image was taken at the RSPB Reserve when we were having our lunch STOP. I was the only woman with 7 men on this trip!

4. My Town

MY TOWN is called Bangor and is in County Down, Northern ireland and as you can see it is a coastal town.  These photographs were taken one evening when my friends and myself went  for a walk on the coastal path in an area known as ‘Pickie’.

5. Up

When we were travelling back from Islay, the skipper took us to see Rathlin Island to look for more birds. Now the light was fading quickly however high UP on the cliff is the most unusual Upside Down Lighthouse.  You can really only see it from the water below it.  So this was a special extra for me from the trip.

One of the reasons we made the trip to Islay was to see the 22,000 recently arrived Barnacle Geese and the image above you certainly can see some of them rising UP in the sky.  Just in case anyone does not know what these geese look like, I have added an image of them below. 

These are a few extras images for UP because I managed to take these shots between workshops when we were having a coffee break.  This juggler was practicing for a later performance. Balloons are UP and decorating the room.

I had a 12 second video of the juggler. CLICK HERE if it does not appear below. 

I hope you enjoyed how I interpreted the word prompts this week using my photographs and video.

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