River Liffey birdwatching 🪶
Snag Breac / Magpie
Corr Réisc / Herron
Glasóg Liath / Grey Wagtail
Faoileán Scadán / Herring gull
Eala bhalbh / Mute Swan
Colm Aille / Feral pigeon
Droimneach Beag / Lesser Black-Backed Gull
#birdsky
#speirgorm
Cutie patootie spotted in Cork City 🥹🫧
#cork
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Did you know Coillte & South Dublin County Council has sought 9 felling licences (appealed) incl. a clear‑fell for Massy’s Wood for a €40M dev with 330 parking spaces. All these trees will be destroyed! Over 32,500 citizens have said no. This demands immediate review. change.org/p/save-the-h... 🐿️🦇🌳
Bracfhungas ar chrann / Bracket Fungus on a tree
#fungus
#tree
#polypore
#speirgorm
#spéirghorm
A starling perched atop a fluffy white sheep's head in a grassy field. Credit: PerAnd1 on Flickr
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A robin in her nest in my partner's shed in Tipperary 🥹🪺
#birdsky
#speirgorm
#spéirghorm
#nest
#robin
Fair play to you - can't wait to have the space to do this one day! 🐓
Lulu the Long-tailed Tit #BirdofTheDay #theme #JKLMNOP #ECK #photography #birds
One of the trees in my local park came down during a storm and it made me surprisingly emotional
#speirgorm
#spéirghorm
#trees
Living through the horrors has inspired me to top up my horror book collection - this time it's Fleischerei and Wax and Wane, both by Saoirse Ní Chiaragáin @miseryvulture.bsky.social 🩸
#speirgorm
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#horror
#irishwriters
Sceach Gheal / Hawthorn Tree
We were looking for a place to rest our heads under the sun, and only after our rest did we realise we were at the base of a fairy tree.
Leave them alone and the Aos Sí won't curse your entire lineage and replace your children with changelings
#spéirghorm
#trees
Em, I wouldnt be sure tbh 😅
When #ThursJay comes around, the #Corvids can't contain themselves as it means it's time to party, so Jerry Jay, Molly Magpie, Jonny Jackdaw & Celine Crow went off in search of food to take with them to the party.
#birds #ECK #photography #CanonR5mkii #ukbirding #birdphotography @rspb.bsky.social
Fallow Deer lying down
Fia Buí / Fallow Deer
An invasive species in Ireland responsibile for limiting woodland regeneration and impacting native habitats.
#deer
#fallowdeer
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We're both here to tell you it's national banjo day and that this Banjo doesn't know his cup size
#banjo
Unreeeeeal 🦵👁
Thank you! 🦌
A gorgeous visit to the Hell Fire Club where we got clattered with all sorts of weather 🌬 Sunbeams on the way up, hailstones at the top, and a rainbow on the way down - a very well rounded day weather wise!
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#hellfireclub
Smólach Ceoil / Song Thrush
It took a lot of staring and analysing to figure out if this lad was a mistle thrush or song thrush! A very confident bird who was happy to hang out while I took some snaps of his gorgeous plumage 🪶
#birdsky
#mistlethrush
#Thrush
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#spéirghorm
Dublin girlo here - I had no issue getting home from town yesterday. Now, it could have been that my route wasn't as affected, but I also think the city is quite rehearsed in public transport diversions due to protest.
Snag breac agus fianna, Páirc an Fhionnuisce / Magpie and deer, Phoenix Park
Magpie and deer, two creatures I never thought I'd see cosying up. The magpie started to de-shed the deer with it's beak just before we left - amazing to see! 🪶
#spéirghorm
#speirgorm
#birdsky
#deer
#corvid
“Listen to the wind blow
Watch the sun rise”
All will be destroyed to make way for 300 car spaces for a €35M overscaled coffee shop & centre. Over 32,520 have said no.
www.change.org/p/save-the-h...
#review 🐿️🦇🌳🌲
Of The Empire We will be known as a culture that feared death and adored power, that tried to vanquish insecurity for the few and cared little for the penury of the many. We will be known as a culture that taught and rewarded the amassing of things, that spoke little if at all about the quality of life for people (other people), for dogs, for rivers. All the world, in our eyes, they will say, was a commodity. And they will say that this structure was held together politically, which it was, and they will say also that our politics was no more than an apparatus to accommodate the feelings of the heart, and that the heart, in those days, was small, and hard, and full of meanness. - Mary Oliver
God this poem is haunting me again.
Sonraí, Páirc an Fhionnuisce / Details, Phoenix Park
#speirgorm
#spéirghorm
#trees
#details
#phoenixpark
#ivy
My boyf radicalised me over the wknd
On Friday we watched Black 47
On Sat The Wind That Shakes the Barley
On Sunday we listened to rebel songs and roasted a chicken
Today the trad music continues & my English father will absolutely be getting a dig when he's back from his hollibops
#upthera
