The summer holidays are here. All is lush and green with long swishy swashy grass and wildflowers in every direction including up on the...

Pretty cloudscapes reflecting in the lake, brightening up our day!

While some of us have forgotten it's Spring thanks to all this dismal weather, the birds are cracking on with things. Undeterred by all...

What a magical night! The Northern Lights mesmerized us here at Lough Mardal and across most of the North West last night. So many tmes...

Valentines Day may have passed but love is still in the air... and on the bog, and in the fields, in the ditches, in the puddles and on...

It's all go in the meadow. This little cuckoo flower is proving popular!

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

We've had a pretty prowler over the last couple of evenings making lots of squawky noise and venturing right up to our window. It's...

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

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

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

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...

Beautiful morning dew drops glistening on all the grasses this morning. Resulting in very wet jeans after my walk.

What an incredible aerial photo looking down over the Lodge. The skylight which seems massive when standing under it looks miniscule! And...

This heron, a regular visitor here, is usually very hard to photograph, let alone record on video. I manage to capture him today though...

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...

Lovely to see the return of the Canada Geese. They usually nest on one of the small islands on the lake. Our journey to school has been...

Leaving the house has been so much simpler the last couple of days - no ten minute rummaging for hats, scarves, jackets, wellies (oh...

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...

One of the big annual nature events we get very excited about at Lough Mardal is nearly here. All of a sudden for about a week long at...