Urban nature - Brent Light Bellied Brent Goose, branta bernicla, migrates to Ireland every winter from arctic Canada - many of them ending up on Dublin's Bull Island, or in surrounding parks and near busy roads, like these ones on the seafront in Clontarf.
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I was looking at around 200 Brent Geese on the green in front of my house at Hampton Cove Balbriggan.
It was a great sight to see.