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Apple blossoms #wildflowerhour #treeflowers #Longford

Yes I do look at sepals , early dog violet I think , thanks to #wildflowerhour flowering in Co Cavan #Gartnanoul peninsula , lough Oughter system

It was the key with “area mapped/ completed “ that made me ask

Of what’s been mapped ? Or is all mapping done?

Every spring, Sand Martins return from Africa to carve tiny tunnels into riverbanks across Europe. They chatter, dive, and skim low over water, never far from their colony. ✨

Their journey connects ecosystems across continents, linking breeding and wintering grounds through migration.🤍

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Co Cavan wood anemones, Derrygid and Innishmore #wildflowerhour

Learning Bluesky doesn’t seem to take my GIF video file. That was a video🤦‍♀️

Snipe in the Flow Bog , Co Cavan . Camaflague , blink and you’ll miss it @communitywetlands.bsky.social

Why is hunting #Redlist woodcocks still legal in ireland?

"These are one of our most cryptic native birds, hiding away by day in the tangle of the woodland floor, becoming active during the hours of darkness, from dusk to dawn." @miseanja.bsky.social

www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/ou...

Big tree, (or you’re little)😁

In August 2017, Mariecia Fraser @uplandresources.bsky.social wrote a #blog on the #grassland #LongTermExperiment #LTE she manages in #Wales: Brignant Plots.

Read it here: bit.ly/2N7e6Cf
@ibers.bsky.social @aberuni.bsky.social

#Ecology #Environment #Pwllpeiran 🌎

What do deer eat in the winter? In the UK a common assumption is that they subsist on over-wintering crops or grazing land. In our new paper led by Amy Gresham we overturn that story. 1/7 besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Sap rising in February, a Sycamore , Co Cavan today. I pruned off some branches on a young sapling .

Marvellous jelly ears I think in woods today Killeshandra on elder

Thank you Martine, thank for info too. A fascinating thing and great name

Jan 29: Feast of Dallán Forgaill (†598) of Maigen / Moynehall, Cavan, a famous professional poet; once believed to be the author of an elegy for St Columba of Iona; scholars now believe the poem is a later composition that gained authority from Dallán's name

RIA MS 23 E 25 (Lebor na hUidre), p5

I am supposing these are slime moulds , on dead wood today. Not as soft as they look