26, 27 july

26 July 

eBird data: https://ebird.org/checklist/S92335290

weather:  6 am 17C wind WNW 10, 11 am 23 C wind ENE 10

tide:  8:30 am 3.8m

27 July

eBird data: https://ebird.org/checklist/S92382309

weather:  6am 15C wind W3, 11 am 21C wind N 10, clear

tide:  8:30 am 4.0m

28 July

eBird data:  https://ebird.org/checklist/S92425810

weather:  6 am 14C wind W3,   10:30 am 23 C wind NW 10 clear

tide:  9am 3.00m peak tide, falling


Clear mornings, warming up as the day progresses.  Still lots happening with young critters.


Shortly after this photo, everybody disappeared into the berry vines.  I think I saw the young deer browsing on the berries, which aren't really ripe yet.  

The tides have been high when I went out the past few mornings. 



There were yellowlegs and black-bellied plovers visible on distant sandbars--way too distant for photographs, but I note that I'm the first in the season to report the plovers.  (Here's an attempt at a photo--if you enlarge it , you can see a grainy black-bellied plover--photo is already cropped a whole bunch.)


They're not uncommon, here but seasonal, and should be showing up in good numbers along Rathtrevor Beach, soon.  Maybe I'll check this morning.  

The young mergansers are getting quite grown-up.  These two are still a bit fluffy, but almost adult sized.


There was a rather odd episode with two young robins, apparently separated in hatching order as the darker of the two is the elder.

Second photo demands a caption.  It appears that the younger has antagonised the elder?



Herons are really common here, but for what it's worth, here's a youngster.  I think he's studying something on the ground--he took off shortly after this shot.


Hot days brewing--I'll try to get out very early.



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