Phil Clancy

Dublin Birder. Love of nature & birds, particularly raptors of the world. Enjoy birding abroad. Would like to see every bird in the Collins Bird Guide.🤞

[Phil Clancy @PhilClancy75]

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[Phil Clancy @PhilClancy75]

@Liza137823 The cat is obvious but I can see loads of animals & birds. Some are just heads & some are even hard to refind so maybe it’s just me & it’s like seeing things in the clouds

[Phil Clancy @PhilClancy75]

Been birding in N.E. Greece (near Turkish border) for 3 weeks. Had these interesting & tame Barn Owls beside guest house. 3 adult birds & unknown amount of young. 2 nests so I presume 1M & 2F. Also 1 adult maybe 1/2 guttatta.

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@agk10k I’m on a plane back to Dublin after a 3 week raptor fest in NE Greece. I’m going through my photos & I thought I good shots of R.F.F till I seen yours.
Beautiful. Well done

[Committee Against Bird Slaughter (CABS) @CABS_REPORTS]

Poachers in #Lebanon are exploiting the current security vacuum to target migrating birds.

Our team found this freshly shot Great-white Pelican in addition to 13 shot White Storks.

Despite precarious conditions, our patrols are deterring hunters just by being present.

[Committee Against Bird Slaughter (CABS) @CABS_REPORTS]

Stork slaughter continues in #Lebanon. Poachers are exploiting the lack of police checks to target migrating birds.

During a patrol our teams found 13 shot White Storks near Terbol, in the north 💔

We are on the ground deterring ‘hunters’ & will stay until May.

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@CABS_REPORTS What is the point or even the challenge in shooting a big bird like that. I don’t mean small birds or animals would be better but Small moving Targets or clay targets would be a greater challenge I presume

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I had a 5 raptor day in my bit of N.E. Dublin the other day. Buzzard, Redkite, Sparrowhawk Peregrine & Kestrel from Donnycarney to Darndale with Kes being the rarest in that area for me these days. All from the car so not a bad haul

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I’m getting loads of notifications on Home Screen from unknown women who I don’t follow or know in any way. There slightly suggestive but nothing really. I worry these women don’t even know their stuff is being sent to people they don’t know. Any Gen welcome please

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I’m devastated. I’ve been told that my little paradise & more importantly the Badgers set has been levelled. Were the animals removed? Are they trapped alive underground? Can they dig their way out ? don’t know anything 1st hand but i feel like borrowing the JCB & trying to open

[Birds Ireland @EricTheBirdman]

I was delighted to be part of the celebrations launching ‘The Birds of Co. Donegal’ by Ralph Shepard. A beautiful book with superb paintings by Rob Vaughan, it sets a new high for books of this genre. Congratulations Ralph!

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Horrible weather in Dublin City right now but major passage of Redwing’s overhead. Calls every few seconds that I was out off the car, so no official no. per time but a lot of birds moving.

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@GardaTraffic Opiates and Benzos can be in prescription & even over the counter drugs. I’m not condoning or comparing the above incident in any way. Just saying a lot of people on the road may test positive. I’ve been told by a doctor that it IS legal to drive on proscribed methadone?

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@BrianCrunchie @savebutterflies @BioDataCentre @Irishwildlife “If u build it they will come”
Well done Brian. Imagine if everyone planted for bees & butterflies

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@IanStev21081570 Thanks Ian. I must send it to someone in the know. It was about 100m from the Wicklow border but I don’t know has their range been up that far previously?

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Found this dead shrew in Co. Carlow.Ireland. Don’t know if the messed up teeth are postmortem. From the Net it’s a little big for Pygmy & a little small for White-toothed Shrew. I don’t know if the body would shrink or expand after death.If anyone knows sp. please let me know Tks

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@agk10k Fair play, it looks great Aidan. Are there many raptors ? Enjoy

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A balance is what I would expect to happen. But there are NO rabbits & mix-amitoses hasn’t been here in years as far as I know. It’s a mystery. If anyone knows please tell. Hedgehog’s are thin on the ground also? Photo off the fields attached

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The only thing that’s missing on the land these days is Rabbits. The fields have names & one is the Rabbit field. I seen a stoat hunting them a few times years ago. People are saying it’s the Buzzards & Kites as their a recent arrival. They can’t kill every rabbit.

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The farm is made up of 8 small to medium fields divided by great old hedges. A man makes hay on it & he doesn’t use chemicals. It took a few years but now the place is alive. Grasshoppers, Butterflies, Horseflies, Ticks & all the way up to Buzzards nesting. Nature bounces back🙏

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Swallows in the family’s unused farm in Carlow are coming out from the sheds at 4am approx. Today it was 4.20. It’s still pitch dark. I thought something was disturbing them but it’s too regular. Only for their calling constantly u wouldn’t c them. Bats & swallows together! Mad.