We spotted lots of red deer droppings today out on our Sunday rambles. This field down by the lake is obviously a busy spot with a...

A lovely bit of colour peeping up through the blanket of white snow everywhere

The big freeze is over. From being almost cut off from civilisation (not even the postman nor binmen could reach us over a couple of...

The beautiful sight of red deer just outside the Lodge early this morning. We know from the tracks around the bogland that they are never...

If you're bat squeamish then look away. The girls were pretty stoked with this find. We wonder is/was it a baby or full blown adult, it...

Spring must be in the air, the frogs are out in force filling the ditches with frogspawn. Anyone coming to stay this week please keep a...

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

First cuckoo flower! Love this little wildflower. Means our resident cuckoo is due to arrive back any time now. Must have heard the...

They're waking up. :-) #Nature #Trees #Spring #EcoHolidays

Spring is in the air - and love is in the air too if you're a frog. We have lots of frog spawn in the usual places and frogs everywhere...

What a beautifully still lake this morning, the forest spotlit by the early morning sun. #morningslikethese #LakesideGlamping #Donegal...

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...

We are very lucky to have wild bilberries growing along the shoreline and they are now ripe for picking! The girls actually managed to...

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

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

The cuckoo is back! One of the loveliest sounds of Spring that stops you in your tracks. #Nature #Spring #Cuckoo #Birds

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

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

Now that the cold weather has passed the ditches by the lakeshore here are teeming with frogs all getting down to business and putting on...

Exceptionally fluffy catkins on this Willow tree by the lake. The toddlers think it's a candy-floss tree. Or maybe it's more they wish it...