Cian Cardiff
@cianbirder
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Ornithologist/Ornithological consultant @ CC Ornithology/Bird tour guide @ The life of an Irish birder/Writer/speaker/Patch birding/Birdfinding/gull lover
Wicklow, Ireland
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This juvenile Merlin stole the show Cahore marsh this afternoon. Best bird of the day. Co. Wexford
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Stunning Male Bearded reedling at Cahore marsh in the afternoon sunshine. 'Pinging' away with a couple of others. Co. Wexford
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Super looks at this Merlin at Cahore marsh this morning. Co. Wexford
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Male Bearded reedlings from Cahore marsh this afternoon. What a magical species. Co. Wexford
#springbirding
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Stunning juvenile buff-breasted sandpiper at Tacumshin this morning while guiding a group around the lake. Extremely elusive. Co. Wexford
@BirdGuides
#autumnbirding
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Beautiful male bullfinch feeding on seeds from one of our silver birch trees this morning in the garden.
#Wexford
#winterbirding
#Irishbirding
#birding
@vikingoptical
#thelifeofanIrishbirder
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Male and female bullfinch in the garden this morning. Munching on the berries. Co. Wexford
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Thanks for all the kind words folks, these things tend not to bother me too much. when tweets are posted publicly about me it is never nice! I will continue to love my birding, work and bird guiding. This is my life, and I truly adore my work and constantly learning and improving
For some reason
@cianbirder
has been the target of bullying again. Cian is the sharpest birder I know and one of the best bird-finders in the country. Here’s some of the best birds he’s found me:
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Just found this Fea’s type Petrel off the bridges of Ross, Co. Clare. Lifer and finds tick ✅
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Delighted to find this tame juvenile Pectoral sandpiper on a flooded flash at the south end of Cahore marsh, Wexford this afternoon.
#autumnbirding
@BirdGuides
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2 singing Cetti’s warblers and 2 singing Cuckoo best of the rest for me at Cahore marsh, Wexford.
#Cahore
#patchbirding
#Wexford
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Juvenile Merlin at Cahore marsh, Wexford just after being displaced by hooded crows off a golden plover it had caught.
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Stunning young female Hen harrier from Co. Wexford this afternoon. One of two birds.
#raptors
@vikingoptical
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Just found a reeling Savi’s warbler at Cahore back marsh, Co. Wexford. First site record!!!
@BirdGuides
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Just found a red-rumped swallow at Cahore Marsh. Flown overhead with 100's of sand martin and some barn swallow. Trying to relocate. Co. Wexford
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Managed some incredibly good looks at this juvenile Buff-breasted sandpiper on the patches Tacumshin on Wednesday evening. Just lay in the grass and snap away. Pure magic! Co. Wexford
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What a day at Tacumshin! Found a female Lesser Scaup and first-summer American Golden plover!! Fem Long-tailed duck, 5-6 Greater scaup, 2cy Spoonbill, summer long-billed dowither, 4 Ruff including a summer male, 16+ little gulls and 2 bearded reedling!!!
#springbirding
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Eastern Olivaceous warbler showing very well at howth head, Co. Dublin
#autumnbirding
#twitchon
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Found this female Lesser Scaup at Tacumshin lake, Wexford. First for Tac!
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Just found a Gull-billed tern at Cahore back marsh, Wexford. Flown NW since! First for the patch!!!
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Amazing seawatching at the Bridges of Ross, Co. Clare yesterday. Tallies included. I saw one of the Little shears!! Wilson’s petrel was a lifer also!! Pomarine skua in the last video.
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Young male hen harrier from the Wexford wildfowl reserve this afternoon with
@thomascardiff2
#winterbirding
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Now it’s autumn! Juvenile Pectoral sandpiper at Tacumshin, Wexford this evening.
@BirdGuides
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Absolutely delighted to stumble across this adult summer Gull-billed tern at Cahore marsh, Wexford today! A species I had high hopes of finding here! First site record!
#birdfinding
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One of the two stunning Male yellow wagtail from the East coast nature reserve on Tuesday. Just dropped in mid afternoon! Not everyday you see Yellow, Ashy-headed, Citrine and white wagtails in Ireland!
#birdfinding
#springbirding
#migration
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Last one, for now 😉. Rose-coloured starling at Kilcoole
#wicklow
today.
#Summerbirding
#lifer
#Irishbirding
@BirdGuides
@vikingoptical
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Absolutely delighted to see this first-winter Ross’s gull at Mutton Island, Co. Galway this afternoon after a long search. My dream Irish bird finally on the list! With
@jrmjones
@_danielowen
@BirdGuides
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Camera shots of the adult Red-necked stint from Ballycotton, Cork today with
@joeproudfoot200
Super bird! After poor views this am we were very pleased when it pitched in about 3 hours later!
@BirdGuides
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Fantastic views of the Wryneck found by
@EricTheBirdman
at Carnsore point, Wexford this evening.
@BirdGuides
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Juvenile Buff-breasted Sandpiper from Tacumshin lake this morning. Just sat and waited and it came quite close. Such an elegant vagrant. Co. Wexford. With
@StephenKing118
@irishbirdimage
, Brian Porter and Freddie Huggard.
@BirdGuides
@vikingoptical
#irishbirding
#waderpassage
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Lovely looks at a flock of Sisken in the garden County that is Co. Wicklow this morning with my grandfather.
#winterbirding
#vikingoptical
#birding
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Just found this black-winged stilt Cahore back marsh, Co, Wexford. Over the moon!
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Juvenile Citrine wagtail from Tacumshin, Wexford this afternoon. Found by Tom Kilbane.
@BirdGuides
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Some images of the roaming flock of at least 15 Bearded Reedling. Mostly adult and immature males. Several females also. Cahore, Co. Wexford
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Just found this drake American wigeon Cahore back marsh. Co. Wexford
#birdfinding
@BirdGuides
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Ditched the shopping and twitched the Dublin port Brown Booby found by Shay Bagnall pictured above, the booby photo is his also as it was distant when I was there.
#autumnbirding
#Dublin
@BirdGuides
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2 singing Cetti’s warbler, 3 (could be more always distant in flight) cattle egrets, 3 pink-footed geese, short-eared owl and merlin Cahore marsh, Co, Wexford.
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Some fantastic views of the 3 Glossy ibis at the east coast nature reserve this afternoon. Co. Wicklow
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Gull-billed tern returned and is hawking insects over Cahore marsh, mobile. Drake Garganey also. Wexford
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This young Merlin chased a snipe into reeds and then began to hover over that area like a Kestrel! Magic to see up close
#Raptors
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Adult Whooper swan overheard at Cahore marsh this evening. Such a privilege to have them wintering here! Co. Wexford
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Left a day early for Inishbofin where I’ll be leading a tour for the next few days, to see the Yellow-crowned night heron at Belcarra, Co. Mayo. What a bird!!!
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The young female hen harrier showed nicely this afternoon. Co. Wexford
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What a strange day that was. Brown booby from Greystones seafront today. Great to see this absolute mega rarity on my doorstep.
#Wicklow
@BirdGuides
@vikingoptical
@TarsigerTeam
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Beautiful short-eared owl, one of two at the East coast nature reserve flooded fields this afternoon. Co. Wicklow.
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Went to twitch 3 Alpine swifts on Bray head and ended up picking up a flock of 9 together, enjoyed by many birders present! Co, Wicklow. Also saw the great white egret at Kilcoole marsh early afternoon that was found by
@noeljkeogh
#birdfinding
#influx
#Irishbirding
@BirdGuides
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Managed some lovely looks at this stunning adult male Bearded Reedling at Cahore marsh this afternoon. Such lively birds! Co. Wexford
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Some more images of the Ballinoulart, Cahore Co. Wexford Glossy ibis from this afternoon.
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Absolutely delighted to find this drake American wigeon grazing with hundreds of Eurasian wigeon at Cahore back marsh this afternoon. Flock was flushed by two hunting Marsh harriers. Co. Wexford. Digiscoped photos.
#birdfinding
#winterbirding
@vikingoptical
@BirdGuides
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Some nice light on the juvenile female hen harrier at Cahore early this afternoon. Co. Wexford
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Just found a first-summer type American Golden plover around the ‘pec pools’ east end Tacumshin, Co. Wexford
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As 2019 draws to an end I would just like to share some memorable moments. Male yellow wagtail, Juvenile semipalmated and Curlew sandpipers, Glossy ibis and a female Red-footed falcon.
#birdfinding
#BirdGuides
#vikingoptical
#IrishBirding
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My best shot of one of up to thirty plus Sabine's gulls I saw on my trip to the bridge's of Ross Co. Clare with
@Johnq_zak
. This being an adult summer.
@BirdGuides
@vikingoptical
#seawatching
#gulls
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What a crazy spring that was! Definitely one of the best birding months I've had. Especially for finding rare and scarce bird's. Attached, male yellow wagtail, female Red-footed falcon and Savi's warbler.
#IrishBirding
#birding
#Wicklow
#Wexford
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5 juv pec, juv semipalmated, 8 juv curlew and 2 green sands, 3 lapland bunts, fem/imm Garganey, 70 Mediterranean gull and juvenile Marsh harrier are the Tacumshin tallies from today. Co. Wexford with
@BMcCloskey_98
@joeproudfoot200
@forktailedswift
@BirdGuides
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Juvenile Pectoral Sandpiper Tacumshin Lake back in September 2020. My best views of this vagrant species to date.
#Autumnbirding
#pecs
#waderpassage
@vikingoptical
@BirdGuides
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The glossy ibis on Ballinoulart road, Cahore this afternoon. Stunning birds! Co. Wexford
#winterbirding
#vikingoptical
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Yellow-crowned night heron from Belcarra, Co. Mayo on Saturday last. What a magnificent sight!
@BirdGuides
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And best of all yesterday was when this South Polar Skua flew west past the bridges of Ross!!! Picked up by Ger Murray and very well called by
@BMcCloskey_98
whom got footage of the bird. A team effort while watching and afterwards from the 8 observers! Screengrabs by Brian.
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Eurasian bittern showed well for about a minute at the east end pond! Mega to see it feeding!! Summer plumaged Great white egret and 3 male and 1 female garganey also at Tacumshin Co. Wexford with
@BMcCloskey_98
#springbirding
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Found this tree pipit on call this morning while guiding on Inishbofin, Co, Galway. Then picked it up feeding among meadow pipits.
#autumn
only the 2nd record for the island and 11th for Galway.
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Guiding at Tacumshin. Juvenile buff b, juvenile pec sand, 5 plus juv curlew sand and 4 juv little stint so far. Female marsh harrier also.
#guiding
#autumnbirding
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Female Red-footed falcon and hobby (left) White Hole, Tacumshin yesterday afternoon. Co. Wexford
#springbirding
#birdfinding
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Two more digiscoped shots of the drake American wigeon from Cahore Marsh today. One I have been waiting to find for years. Co. Wexford
#birdfinding
#winterbirding
@vikingoptical
@BirdGuides
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Happy new year everyone, let’s hope for another great year of birding in 2024! Big things are coming 🤝 Here I am seeing black-winged stilt for the first time at Tacumshin, Co. Wexford back in April with Mark Stewart.
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Adult (behind) subadult type (front) Rose-coloured starlings at Kilcoole, Wicklow this afternoon.
#Summerbirding
#Irishbirding
#wicklow
@BirdGuides
@vikingoptical
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Male red backed shrike hanging around at ring marsh/carnsore point. Delighted with the lifer. Co. Wexford. Bird is singing regularly also.
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Managed some decent looks at the winter type curlew sandpiper at Cahore marsh this afternoon. Patch tick! Not one I expected to get here in March. No sight or sound of the Richard's up until the early eve. Co. Wexford
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Great views of 7 night herons at the South slob this evening with
@joeproudfoot200
Another lifer for me. Co, Wexford.
#springbirding
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It’s not been at bad February for me! Four lifers, Egyptian vulture, cackling and snow goose and the 2cy Ross’s gull.
#winterbirding
#Irishbirding
🇮🇪
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Juvenile Pectoral Sandpiper I stumbled across this evening Cahore marsh, Co. Wexford. First human it's seen probably!
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Juvenile Semipalmated sandpiper still doing the business at Tacumshin this evening with
@feaspetrel70
and
@BMcCloskey_98
Co. Wexford
#Autumn
#peeps
#Yanks
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Good days seawaching on the bridge's of Ross Co. Clare today. From 6.15am - 4.00pm
13 Sabine's gull, two pomarine skua, 6 great shearwater (lifer), several Arctic skuas and good numbers of great skua. Adult Sabine's gull attached.
@BirdGuides
@vikingoptical
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The young female hen harrier that had been shot was doing the rounds again this afternoon. Seems to be doing well thankfully! Co. Wexford
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Fantastic views of the Greater yellowlegs at Tallow bridge, Co. Waterford after work this afternoon. 2 Green sandpiper also.
#waders
#mega
#Irishbirding
#winterbirding
@BirdGuides
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A tame European golden plover that didn’t depart from the 100’s at Cahore marsh recently. Gave me the opportunity to photograph the bird in beautiful sunshine! Wexford.
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Some video footage of the ringtail hen harrier hunting Tacumshin lake this afternoon. Co. Wexford
@vikingoptical
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Juvenile Buff-breasted Sandpiper which showed extremely well on the patches, Tacumshin Co. Wexford this evening.
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Just found a Wilson's phalarope forgotten corner with
@irishbirdimage
and
@StephenKing118
Co. Wexford
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Cahore marsh, Wexford this evening tallies via ebird: . Cuckoo, 3cy Mediterranean gull and little tern attached.
#Irishbirding
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Winter little stint I picked up with some dunlin this morning on Tacumshin lake. Unexpected find with
@JohnMur92523137
Co. Wexford
#springbirding
@vikingoptical
@BirdGuides
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Delighted to stumble upon the returning adult Ring-billed gull while on my way to catch the train this afternoon. Bray seafront Co. Wicklow
#winterbirding
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Male Great-spotted Woodpecker from Co. Wicklow this afternoon.
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Super views of this 2cy male snow bunting on Bray beach this morning, Co. Wicklow
#winterbirding
@vikingoptical
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Siberian (left) and Common chiffchaff (right) from Cahore marsh, Wexford today.
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This young Kestrel was enjoyable to watch as it hunted from the fence posts at Cahore marsh this morning. Co. Wexford
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