North Atlantic Skyline - - Photographs from the west of Ireland (Galway, Mayo, Clare, Limerick, Roscommon and even Leitrim)

Goldcrest

The goldcrest is the smallest bird in Ireland. It's not much bigger than its chirp - weighing about 5 - 7 grammes (you'd get four of them for an ounce). Pictured here in its preferred habitat - a conifer tree, photographed near The Bloody Hollow at the Battle of Aughrim battle site in east Galway.

And the name ? The little guy has a gold stripe, bordered in black on the top of its head - you can barely see the black border in the picture above