Richard Mills @richardtmills.bsky.social · 08/02/2026 A charming Barbary ground squirrel enjoying a munch in a ring of flowers that are currently carpeting the otherwise bleak coastal and mountainsides following heavy rains on Fuerteventura. 060
Richard Mills @richardtmills.bsky.social · 23/01/2026Yay! A new home record. Morning coffee in bed and a great egret flew past the window. Presumably on its way from the Gearagh to Duniskey. 130
Richard Mills @richardtmills.bsky.social · 11/01/2026Incoming grey heron! Get off my patch egret! 1172
Richard Mills @richardtmills.bsky.social · 09/01/2026Some of the local residents while walking down to see the goosanders at Harty's quay in Cork. A pestered buzzard, A meditating grey heron, A sleeping little egret, and A framed robin. 030
Richard Mills @richardtmills.bsky.social · 27/12/2025Variations on the superb drake Goosander at Harty's Quay, Cork, today. This diving duck is a member of the sawbill family, named for their serrated bills as seen in the close up photo, for catching fish. No sign of the females so far. 040
Richard Mills @richardtmills.bsky.social · 23/12/2025A brief spell of sunshine recently and this Robin was singing away, and wishing everyone a very happy Christmas and New Year. 040
Richard Mills @richardtmills.bsky.social · 21/12/2025Frosty love carved on an old bench on the midwinter solstice. 000
Richard Mills @richardtmills.bsky.social · 15/12/2025Wow! I'm currently watching a barn owl perched on my front gate on CCTV for the past 15 minutes or so. In the swirling fog. 020
Richard Mills @richardtmills.bsky.social · 15/11/2025Up periscope. A great white egret keeping a not so low profile behind one of the many stumps at the Gearagh. 160
Richard Mills @richardtmills.bsky.social · 19/10/2025Hundreds of small jellyfish washed up on this small beach in West Cork. 050
Richard Mills @richardtmills.bsky.social · 17/10/2025Little and great white egrets blending together. The size difference is quite considerable. 191
Richard Mills @richardtmills.bsky.social · 15/10/2025All blacks on Vancouver Island. Black oystercatchers, Black turnstones, Black squirrel and Black bear. 030
Richard Mills @richardtmills.bsky.social · 14/10/2025I was watching a black squirrel at Buttertubs marsh on Vancouver Island when it suddenly vanished and this lovely barred owl carrying a decapitated rat landed on a branch for a snack, right in front of me. It even ignored a couple of passersby below with their phones. Very dark but amazing! 250
Richard Mills @richardtmills.bsky.social · 17/09/2025It took a while, but this grey phalarope eventually left the vast muddy expanse where it was feeding. and floated out for a preen while blown downstream in the wind. I was almost running after it! They are remarkably tame birds. 070
Richard Mills @richardtmills.bsky.social · 17/09/2025Morning coffee at home and look who flew past. Grab shots through the double-glazed window, but nice to see the local juvenile white-tailed sea eagle. 030
Richard Mills @richardtmills.bsky.social · 14/09/2025Curlew sandpipers showing well on the beach at Ballynamona in east Cork. 140
Richard Mills @richardtmills.bsky.social · 14/09/2025Doesn't time fly! Same place, two pectoral sandpipers, but only about 45 years apart. The 'descendants' obviously like Shanagarry in east Cork. 150
Richard Mills @richardtmills.bsky.social · 07/06/2025A wee wren waiting patiently for me to move on from one of the hides at Harper's Island Nature Reserve in order to feed its nestlings somewhere nearby. I did. @IslandWetlands 140
Richard Mills @richardtmills.bsky.social · 03/06/2025Early morning at the Gearagh, but, oh 'deer', the main carpark is closed for several days, as they are pouring concrete. Afternoon cuppa at home watching a fox coming out of the woodwork, then a female sparrowhawk flypast. The hoodies missed her as they were dismantling a rabbit. 030
Richard Mills @richardtmills.bsky.social · 01/06/2025It was cooold up in the clouds in the Cirque de Gavarnie in the Pyrenees recently. Even the choughs had to contend with snow and hailstones. 030
Richard Mills @richardtmills.bsky.social · 28/05/2025Alpine choughs on the move with nesting material. 150
Richard Mills @richardtmills.bsky.social · 08/05/2025Apart 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. 030
Richard Mills @richardtmills.bsky.social · 07/05/2025Great crested grebes, and a cormorant, gathering in the early morning mist at the Gearagh. 040
Richard Mills @richardtmills.bsky.social · 05/05/2025The 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 @MaritimeBantry @visitbantry1 041
Richard Mills @richardtmills.bsky.social · 05/05/2025Some 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? 030
Richard Mills @richardtmills.bsky.social · 03/05/2025A dunnock on its favourite perch, but watched by a ghostly hooded crow in the background. 020
Richard Mills @richardtmills.bsky.social · 02/05/2025A common sandpiper catching the early morning sun at the Gearagh. 040
Richard Mills @richardtmills.bsky.social · 02/05/2025More 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. 020
Richard Mills @richardtmills.bsky.social · 02/05/2025The lesser yellowlegs closing in on a surprised shelduck at Harper's Island Wetlands. 061
Richard Mills @richardtmills.bsky.social · 01/05/2025Time for a drink for this wood pigeon during the current hot spell. 020
Richard Mills @richardtmills.bsky.social · 01/05/2025This young grey heron was mesmerised by the mating carp at the Lough in Cork. 160
Richard Mills @richardtmills.bsky.social · 01/05/2025My ring is nicer than yours. You can't beat a good coot fight. 040
Richard Mills @richardtmills.bsky.social · 30/04/2025Quite a rare occurrence. A leucistic red kite seen in Wales recently. Only a few such birds exist in the world. 020
Richard Mills @richardtmills.bsky.social · 30/04/2025A greylag goose's amazing symmetrical and circular plumage pattern when seen head on. 020
Richard Mills @richardtmills.bsky.social · 30/04/2025The lovely black and white pattern of a magpie in flight. 072
Richard Mills @richardtmills.bsky.social · 30/04/2025Scanning 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. 030
Richard Mills @richardtmills.bsky.social · 30/04/2025No nuthatches in Ireland unfortunately, but don't you love the colourful underparts of this Welsh bird. 020
Richard Mills @richardtmills.bsky.social · 30/04/2025A delightful whinchat in full cry at daybreak. 050
Richard Mills @richardtmills.bsky.social · 26/04/2025Great news. Only a week out, first batch sold out and now No. 3 in the Bestsellers Non Fiction list in Ireland. @theobrienpress.bsky.social 073
Richard Mills @richardtmills.bsky.social · 22/04/2025Poetry in motion from the slow slide film archives. A red-rumped swallow lift off. 030
