Sep 19, 2023

Certified Organic

We are a small working farm with rare breed Dexter cows and, having spent 2 years 'in conversion', we are now officially certified as...

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May 26, 2022

That Summer Feeling

And in a flash there was colour everywhere. The colour of summer! The wildflowers have started popping up everywhere now, each few days a...

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Mar 29, 2022

Busy Spiders of the Bog

What another beautiful start to the day as we continue enjoying this mini-heatwave. An ethereal fog hanging over the lake, early morning...

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Mar 8, 2022

More signs of Spring

Canada Geese are back on the lake again. As its name implies, the greater Canada goose is not a native species - in Ireland colonisation...

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Mar 8, 2022

Spring is here

The frogs are spawning and the buds are budding...hello Spring. Nature keeps to her schedule and the world keeps turning despite the...

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Jul 27, 2021

Pretty moth

A lovely find by the girls - the Common Garden Tiger Moth - we usually see the caterpillars munching on ragwort but don't often see the...

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Mar 14, 2021

Buzzard Sighting

Quite a few large birds are circling Lough Mardal the last few weeks as the lake shoreline has become a breeding ground for frogs - they...

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Feb 22, 2021

Bird Nest

What a find! An abandoned bird nest in a Rhodedendron bush - what clever little birdies made this we wonder and made it so well that it...

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Jul 17, 2019

Mating butterflies

Pretty Meadow Brown butterflies are everywhere at the moment. These two are getting a little romantic. :-) #Nature #Butterfly #Summer

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Oct 3, 2018

The wildflower grand finale for this year

The wildflower final hurrah of the year at Lough Mardal is dominated by this beauty. The Devil's-bit scabious. I've come to love it so...

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Jun 21, 2018

Wildflower heaven

A small selection of the beautiful wildflowers that now dot the landscape at Lough Mardal #Wildflowers #Nature #Ecofriendly...

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Jun 21, 2018

Butterfly eggs

Cuckoo flower with teeny tiny orange specks that are the eggs laid by the orange tip butterfly. And two photobombing flies. And filthy...

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Mar 20, 2018

#WorldFrogDay

All the frog spawn was frozen when we went on our routine inspection today. Incl one frog (demonstrating Darwin's theory). Will the frog...

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Mar 20, 2018

A Lonesome Snowdrop

A lonesome snowdrop. Hard to imagine in a matter of weeks the place will start transforming with new colours as the wildflowers start...

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Oct 19, 2017

Storm Aftermath

Storm Ophelia came and went and during her visit gave the canoe a flying lesson. We discovered it yesterday in the bog quite a distance...

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Apr 16, 2017

Going Cuckoo

There was much excitement this morning at breakfast - the cuckoo is back! We have been looking forward to its arrival but weren't...

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