Araglin Animal Sanctuary Open Day.

I had an awesome day at the Araglin Animal Sanctuary in Cork, Ireland. I’ve been following their Facebook page for a while and seeing the great work they do. So I was really excited to see that they were having an open day as part of the Araglin Town Carnival. I’ll be keeping an eye on their Facebook page  for any future open day and I will be back with my camera.

 

Araglin Animal Sanctuary is has an amazing selection of animals, from goats and ponys, to moles, foxes and my favorite of them all was the Raccoons. The wolves were awesome too and particularly difficult to get a good picture of as they keep moving to the part of the enclosure that was furthest from wherever I was standing.

 

Well it has been quite some time since I posted on my blog I hope you all liked it, and hopefully I will start to post regularly on here. As always I hope you liked the pictures and feel free to like, comment, share and all that Jazz.

 

Peace Out.

The Foxy Prophet.

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Its not easy being green.

There is a pond in the Jardim Botanico in Coimbra and in that pond is a load of frogs. The frogs are photogenic if you are willing to sit there are wait for them to start striking poses. I hope you enjoy the pics of my Amphibian Friends.

Just a frog sunbathing in the Jardim Botanico in Coimbra.

A frog under a leaf in a pond.

A frog on a leaf in a pond.

A frog lurking on a leaf in a pond.

Just a frog sunbathing in the Jardim Botanico in Coimbra.

A winking frog

I was able to get some nice shots of them in a quiet times of reflection.

A frog on a leaf in a pond.

A frog under a leaf in a pond.

And for the last few days they have been really noisy and puffing their cheeks a lot.

Chubby cheeks

The frog is doing push ups.

This frog is doing his best impression of Princess Leia with the bun.

I think he is either showing off to the lady frogs or trying to scare off the male competition.

 

Well thats the end of it today, so let me know what you think of them and feel free to share them with friends and co-workers.

Peace and Love,

Ciaran.

P.S If anyone can explain the difference between a frog and toad that would be great, I’m too lazy to google it.

April 12, 2017 by ciaranbuckleyphotography Categories: Animal PhotogrpahyTags: Amphibian, Amphibian Friends, Animal Photographer, Animal Photography, Animals, coimbra, Digital Photography, Frogs, Jardim Botanico De Coimbra, Nature, Nature Photography, Photography, pond, pond dwellers, Portugal, toad, toads, wildlife, Wildlife Photography Leave a comment

Birds Part II, the quest for plumage.

For the last few months I’ve been trying to get out into nature and move as silently as possible so that I can get some decent pictures of birds. Compared to my previous post I made about birds I think these pictures are of a higher standard, I hope you enjoy them.

 

A tit in the sunshine.

A blue tit on a branch

Not sure what this bird is.

a chaffinch hanging around in the garden

The mighty crow looking handsome.

The mighty crow looking handsome.

 

It turns out that Robins are pretty comfortable in front of the camera and enjoy having their picture taken.

The mighty Robin looking handsome.

The mighty Robin looking handsome.

The mighty Robin resting on a wire.

The robin red breast hiding in some underbrush.

The mighty Robin looking handsome.

The mighty Robin looking handsome with his feathers looking puffed.

 

Seagulls are an interesting bunch, I always think that if they could speak they would hassle you for cigarettes.

The notoriously camera shy seagull turns his back on me.

A flock of gulls.

I’ll take you under my wing(quite literally) and teach you to be a fully fledged member of seagull society.

an faoileán

 

I never knew starlings would be so so photogenic, I was really happy with how the last starling picture turned out.

 

I really hope you get as much enjoyment out of looking at these pictures as I got out of taking them, well anyways that is enough rambling out of me so let me know what you think in the comments.

Also I’ve gotten quite lazy with posting to the blog recently so I’ll do my best to get the thumb out, keep it out and post more regularly.

Peace and Love,

 

The Great Hairy One.

 

 

 

April 5, 2017April 5, 2017 by ciaranbuckleyphotography Categories: Animal Photogrpahy, birds, Nature, UncategorizedTags: Animal Photographer, Animal Photography, Animals, Avian, bird, blue tit, budgie, canon Photography, canon1200d, chaffinch, Common Irish Birds, crow, crows, Digital Photography, flock, Garden Birds, Irish Wildlife, Life in the Undergrowth, Park, parque chopal, Photography, plumage, Portugal, Rio Mondego, robin, robin red breast, seagull, starling, starlings, wings Leave a comment

Gatos De Portugal, making furry friends

Here are some the cats I’ve met along the way.

 

These are the cats that I met in Coimbra.

 

The next gallery are the furry friends that I have made since I moved to Lisboa.

 

Ivy was abandoned but was adopted around a month ago

This cat lived in a park. He was in charge of controlling the local rat population.

Pilot Programme, Rodent bio-control, please don’t feed the cats.

I can only imagine the stories that this could tell(if cats had the ability to speak that is)

There is a family of around 6 black cats living in the same area

About 200m meters down the road from the Black Colony of cats lives the Calicos

This cat is living in the Fornos du cal in Paço De Arcos

I bought some food last night in order to bribe them into being my friends

They ate the food but dont seem to want to be friends yet.

While I was out taking pictures another lady came along and fed them too, so its good to see that they are being looked after.

Bit of a Harvey Dent thing going on here

Chillin’

 

They wouldn’t let me get close to them even when I bribed them with food.

Thanks for taking the time to look at the pictures, let me know what you think in the comments below.

Peace and Love,

The Foxy Prophet.

September 22, 2016 by ciaranbuckleyphotography Categories: catsTags: abandoned, Animal Photographer, Animal Photography, Animals, belmonte, black cat, Calico Cat, canon Photography, canon1200d, Caring, Cat, coimbra, crazy cat lady, Feeding Stray Cats, Feeding Strays, Feline, Foxy Prophet, friendship, furryfriend, Gato, Gato Preto, Gatos De Portugal, ginger cat, kitty, Lisboa, Lisbon, old cat, Paco De Arcos, Park, Pet, Pet Photographer, Photography, pussy, rescue animal, rescue cat, tabby, tabby cat, The Foxy Prophet, Urban Animals, whiskers 2 Comments