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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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