Difficult for us to identify, our ecology professor Philip believes this is a rock pipit, Anthus petrosus.
The local robin is not a thrush like ours in North America. Erithacus rubecula is a lot smaller, and has a pinker orange than our burnt orange 'turdus'. They are year-round residents in Ireland but the numbers swell with continental arrivals in the fall.
European goldfinches feeding on the seeds of teazle, a protocarnivorous (traps and kills insects but can't digest or absorb them) plant that looks a lot like thistle.
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