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Johnny Mac @johnnythecow.bsky.social · 20h

(What’s up?) Dock Bug

#dockbug #shieldbug #bug #insect #coreusmarginatus #wildlife #wildlifephotography #nature #naturephotography #macro #macrophotography #llanafan #ystwythvalley #aberystwyth #ceredigion

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Johnny Mac @johnnythecow.bsky.social · 6d

As summer slips out unnoticed, some are still clinging to the wreckage…

#cosmos #hoverfly #marigold #latesummer #autumn #fall #flora #flowers #nature #wildlife #naturephotography #wildlifephotography #llanafan #aberystwyth #ceredigion

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Johnny Mac @johnnythecow.bsky.social · 13d

Prevailing winds

#oak #oaktree #solitary #talfan #uplands #wind #prevailingwinds #storm #hillside #outdoors #ystwyth #ystwythvalley #trawscoed #trawsgoed #llanafan #aberystwyth #ceredigion

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Johnny Mac @johnnythecow.bsky.social · 19d

Robin Goch, Gelli Ddu

#blackcovert #gelliddu #birchgrove #woodland #robin #birds #birdlife #wildlife #wildlifephotography #nature #naturephotography #trawscoed #trawsgoed #ystwythvalley #llanafan #ceredigion

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Johnny Mac @johnnythecow.bsky.social · 21d

Drone

#dronefly #hoverfly #eristalistenax #mimic #honeybee #insect #diptera #garden #wildlife #nature #wildlifephotography #naturephotography #macro #macrophotography #closeup #closeupphotography #llanafan #aberystwyth #ceredigion

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Johnny Mac @johnnythecow.bsky.social · 22d

Everything else just comes and goes, the mountains remain.

#baeceredigion #cardiganbay #sea #seascape #landscapephotography #penllyn #penrhynllŷn #llynpeninsula #eryri #snowdonia #mountains #silhouette #aberystwyth #carnfadryn #moelcaerau

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Johnny Mac @johnnythecow.bsky.social · 23d

On the wing.

#tanybwlch #aberystwyth #beach #stormbeach #walescoastpath #llwybrarfordircymru #aberystwythcastle #birds #birdlife #wildlife #nature #wildlifephotography #naturephotography #pippit #rockpippit

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Johnny Mac @johnnythecow.bsky.social · 23d

On the wing.

#tanybwlch #aberystwyth #beach #stormbeach #walescoastpath #llwybrarfordircymru #aberystwythcastle #birds #birdlife #wildlife #nature #wildlifephotography #naturephotography #oystercatcher

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Steve aka The Fall in Fives @steve69.bsky.social · Jul 5

The Steve's Mix Tapes guest this week is not a famous musician or author - but that matters not when he talks about his choices with such charm and passion. Welcome to Johnny Mac aka John McMahon.
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Steve's Mix Tapes - MixTape #025 (Johnny Mac)

My guest mixer this week is Johnny Mac. Johnny (real name John McMahon) and I have known each other - via the Wedding Present online forum - for years. As it turns out, we know each other well in some...

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Johnny Mac @johnnythecow.bsky.social · 29d

Admirable

#redadmiral #vanessaatalanta #butterfly #lepidoptera #wildlife #wildlifephotography #nature #naturephotography #garden #llanafan #ystwythvalley #aberystwyth #ceredigion

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Johnny Mac @johnnythecow.bsky.social · Sep 15

Same sea, different ends.

#poolbeg #poolbegtowers #dublin #docks #dublindocks #ireland #aberystwyth #harbour #breakwater #lighthouse #ceredigion #wales #irishsea #industrial

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Johnny Mac @johnnythecow.bsky.social · Sep 14

It isn’t where you’re going, it’s where you are that matters.

#cycling #cycletouring #bikepacking #travel #canal #greenway #royalcanal #royalcanalgreenway #goldenhour #westmeath #ireland

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Johnny Mac @johnnythecow.bsky.social · Sep 13

On Raglan Road of an Autumn day
I saw her first and knew,
that her dark hair would weave a snare
that I might someday rue.
I saw the danger and yet I passed
along the enchanted way,
and I said, "Let grief be a fallen leaf
at the dawning of the day."

#raglanroad #patrickkavanagh #dublin #ireland

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Johnny Mac @johnnythecow.bsky.social · Sep 11

Craic hunting at Furey’s Select.

#cycletouring #cycling #bikepacking #fureys #fureysmoyvalley #pub #moyvalley #royalcanalgreenway #royalcanal #waterways #waterwaysireland #greenways #ireland

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Johnny Mac @johnnythecow.bsky.social · Sep 10

The Lake Isle of Innisfree

“I will arise and go now, and go to Innisfree.”

#loughgill #loughgile #innisfree #thelakeisleofinnisfree #poetry #drumcliff #DroimChliabh #yeats #wbyeats #williambutleryeats #storm #sligo #ireland

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Johnny Mac @johnnythecow.bsky.social · Sep 9

An Rhos/Rosses Point, I have recited the second stanza of The Stolen Child by WB Yeats each time an anaesthetist has put me under, it’s beautiful, and if it was going to be the last thing I ever said or heard then I’d go out peacefully.

While the world is full of troubles,
and anxious in its sleep.