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Scanning the garden and nearby field on this lovely warm evening with the thermal imager and was able to follow several cockchafers, aka maybugs flying around. They really glow in the dark. Found one in the garden earlier on.

A greylag goose's amazing symmetrical and circular plumage pattern when seen head on.

Quite a rare occurrence. A leucistic red kite seen in Wales recently. Only a few such birds exist in the world.

My ring is nicer than yours. You can't beat a good coot fight. barry o'mahony Sam Bayley

Starling slurp.

This young grey heron was mesmerised by the mating carp at the Lough in Cork.

Time for a drink for this wood pigeon during the current hot spell.

The lesser yellowlegs closing in on a surprised shelduck at Harper's Island. HarpersIslandWetlands

More junk going down one of my chimneys. However I have left that one open for the jackdaws who have used it for many years. I used to watch them in closeup with that little camera, but it has since died and I'm not sure I can climb up there again to replace it.

A common sandpiper catching the early morning sun at the Gearagh.

Some 3 weeks ago, I stopped outside an old building in West Cork to check out a chough site, and the car was attacked by a deranged pied wagtail. Today it ignored me but was repeatedly attacking his reflection in any window. Birdbrain with a headache?

The Danish sail training ship 'Danmark' sailing past Blackball Head Napoleonic signal watch tower on its way into Bantry Bay and Glengarriff. Pity about the heat haze. @DMA_SFS The Maritime visitbantry

Greylag on the move.

Great crested grebes, and a cormorant, gathering in the early morning mist at the Gearagh.

Moorhens duelling at dawn.

New sycamore variations.

Apart from the two well established wildlife wall displays there, I never knew that one of my stormy wave crashing photographs had been enlarged and mounted behind the counter in the café at Mizen Head. Taken at nearby Galley Cove.

Snipe stretch.

The early bird...

Crab lunch with garnishings for this black-headed gull.