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Seán Ronayne @seanronayne.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

My first recording of 2026. The wonderful House Sparrow. ⁣ ⁣ I chanced upon a gorgeous flock today and it became my first recording of 2026. Here’s to many more. ⁣ ⁣ I hope you enjoy it as much as I did. #wildlife #birdsound #birds #wildlifesounds #birding

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Seán Ronayne @seanronayne.bsky.social · 27/09/2025

I’m back here after an absence. I was trying to cut back on apps. I feel like I’m being shadow-banned on instagram so this seems like a nicer place to revisit Here’s a video from a mic deployment in Barcelona, in the midst of a wonderful thunderstorm. I got so wet it didn’t matter! It was beautiful

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Seán Ronayne @seanronayne.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

The start of a new chapter! I’ve been meaning to explore underwater sounds for some time. This recorder will remain submerged for 24hrs as a test. Let’s see what swims around it tonight, when the tide rises and the people leave. Just my mic, the sea, and the fish!

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Seán Ronayne @seanronayne.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

Thank you everyone for a great night at Cork Opera House! Never in my wildest dreams did I think I’d fill 750 seats in my home city one day. What a privilege to do that talking about the thing I love so much. Nature. You all give me so much hope. See you at the next! Lots more venues to go.

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Seán Ronayne @seanronayne.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

UK friends! Tonight Birdsong makes its UK TV debut on BBC4 at 9pm. It will also be available on BBC Player thereafter. Please spread the word! Extract taken from The Times.

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Seán Ronayne @seanronayne.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

Currently have mics running at three sites here in Catalunya. The lack of human noise at each is astounding. Can’t wait to see what I’ve captured!

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Seán Ronayne @seanronayne.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

Tour almost ready to go! Lots of new sounds & stories as well as new threads & elements to others. The first two gigs are sold out with most others heading that way. I can’t wait! I have a few mics to collect here before coming home from Catalunya so hope to add even more sounds.

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Seán Ronayne @seanronayne.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

Following on from a sold out Live at St. Luke's, I'll be speaking at the Cork Opera House, March 26th! Tickets: www.irishwildlifesounds.com/irish-tour/ The sound system there is just incredible and I am so excited to showcase the best of what I've captured over the years. See you there!

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Seán Ronayne @seanronayne.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

The Irish tour is growing! Shows in Clare, Limerick, Galway, Leitrim, Kerry, Kildare & Longford announced! tinyurl.com/mu9bx8kp It looks like we are headed for a lot of full houses - absolutely buzzing. Thank you everyone for your kindness & support. More to announce in coming days!

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Seán Ronayne @seanronayne.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

An Irish tour of talks will be starting soon. Hope to see you there! Note that this is just a fraction of venues. I am awaiting on contracts before I announce the remainder. For tickets and details please visit my website: www.irishwildlifesounds.com

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Seán Ronayne @seanronayne.bsky.social · 04/01/2025

Just a gorgeous lemon-yellow Brimstone moth. A blast from the past from one of my many early teenage nocturnal garden safaris.

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Seán Ronayne @seanronayne.bsky.social · 02/01/2025

1/6🧵 It was around this time last year that I was given this chance to talk about the thing that means the most to be on what is a huge national platform (thank you RTE and thank you Tommy Tiernan and team)

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Seán Ronayne @seanronayne.bsky.social · 01/01/2025

Two song types from a Wood Warbler in an Irish Sessile Oak Woodland. Now both sadly very rare. This bird was a real treat to sit with and listen to. I'd imagine this was once a much more common sound, in the very distant past, when oak woodlands were more common.

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Seán Ronayne @seanronayne.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

This fast flowing water was almost singing to me. I heard it from afar and tracked it down the the exact source. I just had to record it. I was searching for Dippers again, but I always get distracted. But that's what makes the day - these beautiful distractions.

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Seán Ronayne @seanronayne.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

1/3🧵 Setting up my mics one night, I glanced at, but took no particular notice of, a large slug (not the individual in photo - this one I saw in SE Asia!) right by my kit. I finally solved the mystery of the odd scratchy sounds I sometimes heard in my recordings!

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Seán Ronayne @seanronayne.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

Another gorgeous morning out soaking up nature and placing/collecting mics in East Cork. The highlight for this trip was seeing the delicate and rather scarce (in these parts) Tunbridge Filmy-fern for the first time ever. Now to analyse sounds…

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Seán Ronayne @seanronayne.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

Clicking sounds from many brown shrimp (crangon crangon), recorded from a small pier in West Cork with a hydrophone (an underwater microphone). If you listen very closely you will hear a distant limpet grazing on algae. It's another world down there and I'm looking forward to exploring it!

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Seán Ronayne @seanronayne.bsky.social · 29/12/2024

Just a dinky, submarine-yellow periwinkle going about its business to the sound of a lapping Cork Harbour sea.

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Seán Ronayne @seanronayne.bsky.social · 29/12/2024

Gently lapping waves, very low levels of anthropogenic noise, no wind, and ten displaying black guillemots right below me. This was a perfect recording scenario - bliss.

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Seán Ronayne @seanronayne.bsky.social · 28/12/2024

Just collected this unit after a week-long deployment from its ethereal, misty, dripping, gorgeous, Irish Atlantic rainforest hiding place. Analysis tonight. What will it have heard and captured? These units are my absolute favourite - sturdy, long-lived, waterproof and with pin-sharp sound.

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Seán Ronayne @seanronayne.bsky.social · 28/12/2024

A grey seal snorts and loafs around amidst a sunny, bustling seafood festival at Kilmore Quay, Co. Wexford, presumably hoping for fish scraps from the numerous fishing boats tied up.

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Seán Ronayne @seanronayne.bsky.social · 27/12/2024

Beautiful! I’ve only taken to poetry in recent months and find passages like this very impressive. Currently reading this:

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Seán Ronayne @seanronayne.bsky.social · 27/12/2024

Short-eared owl wing-clapping and calling, with the company of some whooper swans in the background. Recorded with an SM4 at a then long-term, listening station on the Wexford coast, on the 17th Jan' 2022. This is possibly my favourite ever recording, of this seldom-heard migratory owl.

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Seán Ronayne @seanronayne.bsky.social · 26/12/2024

**Spoken extract from 'Nature Boy' - available in full on Audible. Wet woodlands are real magical places. There's something ethereal about them. They're wild places full of life, mystery and character.

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Seán Ronayne @seanronayne.bsky.social · 26/12/2024

Rob illustrated my book and is just amazing!

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Seán Ronayne @seanronayne.bsky.social · 26/12/2024

Saleen Creek, Co. Cork - 16/01/22 A mixed group of teal, redshank, dunlin and black-tailed godwits feed and take advantage of the last of the exposed mud as the tide rapidly advances. Calls echo through the stillness.

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Seán Ronayne @seanronayne.bsky.social · 25/12/2024

My current obsession is dipper. A wonderful semi-aquatic songbird which sings with liquid grace but does so in fast flowing rivers. White noise is the problem. I just need to find a still point with a song-rock. I’ll get there. But it means we get to explore woods and rivers! Happy Xmas!

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Seán Ronayne @seanronayne.bsky.social · 24/12/2024

Calls from a colony of Little Terns at Kilcoole, Co. Wicklow. This colony holds approximately 40% of the entire Irish population and is expertly managed each year by Birdwatch Ireland volunteers. Amazing work. Listen to the energetic calls of our smallest tern with lovely surf sounds!

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Seán Ronayne @seanronayne.bsky.social · 23/12/2024

The sonic world of nocturnal migration is fascinating. It shines a light on the unknown & lets you hear birds in an out of place context. Here is a Coot migrating along the rugged Ballycotton cliffs @ 00:25am last May. Hear the crashing waves & echo of its calls bounce off the cliffs as it goes.

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Seán Ronayne @seanronayne.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

Well, this is now happening & I am beyond excited!⁣ ⁣ So far I have 14 counties confirmed, & more lining up. All in lovely theatres and arts centres, too. A proper tour!⁣ ⁣ As soon as things are fully confirmed I will share more. ⁣ ⁣ I can't wait to see you all. Poor Alba is sick of my bird stories!

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Seán Ronayne @seanronayne.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

A throwback from summer: “Calling song of Roesel's Bush-cricket from one of only two known Irish sites for this species! Recorded today during a gap in the wind, with a nice spell of sun. I had never seen or heard this species in Ireland before so it was a real treat to stumble upon them at last.”

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Seán Ronayne @seanronayne.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

A wet and windy walk in a dark wild wood. To clear the head and to collect a mic. Remarkably calming. Bereft of people but full of life.

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Seán Ronayne @seanronayne.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

Chaffinch "rain song". Far from the usual melodic song, this alternative is said to predict impending rain 😉. It’s highly variable, and is in fact dialect-prone. It can range from this sweet note all the way to a buzzy wheeze!

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Seán Ronayne @seanronayne.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

No words needed! 😍 I’m out setting out a roving mic to sample a lovely woodland close to home. I can feel the stress just floating away.

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Seán Ronayne @seanronayne.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

Starlings aren't our only mimics, in fact MANY passerines do it Listen to this Robin song with mimicry of Blue Tit at approx. 55s. Whilst not as frequent or accurate as some species, Robins do indeed include mimicry in their songs.

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Seán Ronayne @seanronayne.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

Over to moon to share the news that Nature Boy has also been nominated for overall Irish book of the year!

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Seán Ronayne @seanronayne.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

Begging calls and a feeble long call attempt from a 2nd calendar year Iceland gull - recorded on the 10th April 2022 at Dingle Harbour, Co. Kerry. This is a recording I thought I'd never get, from a bird you just don't hear too often, it being just a scarce and not very vocal winter visitor.

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Seán Ronayne @seanronayne.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

Join me and several other authors for a Christmas book signing in Waterstones Cork. Today from 5-6pm. I love this store. This is where I wandered eagerly as a kid, keeping a close eye on any new nature book arrivals. This place helped fuel my imagination and send me on my nature-filled journey.

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Seán Ronayne @seanronayne.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

I still cannot believe that my little book took Irish Biography of the Year. I cannot reply to all of the messages but please know that I see and appreciate every one of them. Now I just hope that the messages in my book spread far and wide and that they can act as seeds of change. Up nature!

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Seán Ronayne @seanronayne.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

I’m so excited to speak at the iconic Other Voices in Dingle this weekend. There are lots of wonderful speakers attending and it’s an honour to be amongst them. I’ll be bringing my book. I’ll be bringing my bird sounds. And I can’t wait to see you all there!

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Seán Ronayne @seanronayne.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

Thank you An Post and Crossy for the interview. I’m still floating today. I can’t believe I’ve won this. Here’s to Irish nature.

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Seán Ronayne @seanronayne.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

All set and ready for the Irish Book Awards! Wish us luck!

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Seán Ronayne @seanronayne.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

The unmistakable jingling of a freshly arrived Waxwing calling from a treetop on the Irish coastline, at dawn from this time last year. These birds occasionally come from Scandinavia to feast on our berries for the winter! Photo: Caroline Legg (Flickr: CC BY 2.0 DEED Attribution 2.0 Generic)

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Seán Ronayne @seanronayne.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

Mimicry is incredible! Listen to this stonechat in subsong, taking off magpie, blackbird, meadow pipit, swallow, starling, green sandpiper, pied wagtail, house martin, and raven. This bird is a resident of the Wexford Slobs, hence the wonderful backdrop of many, many geese!

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Seán Ronayne @seanronayne.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

Wow! I’ve just found what appears to be a Favolaschia species in Cobh, Co. Cork. This was only first discovered in Ireland, also in Cork last year! Are there any Irish mycologists on here? www.researchgate.net/profile/Coli...

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Seán Ronayne @seanronayne.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

Take yourself to an Irish coastal marsh at night. Rain pitter-patters softly on the water. Surf gently crashes in the distance. Swans and wigeon graze and call at peace in the blackness. These worlds exist out there and we must protect them.

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Seán Ronayne @seanronayne.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

I’ve just been made aware of this lovely review of ‘Birdsong’. In approx 19 hours we launch our online international screening please join us! Live Q&A follows. Tickets here: watch.eventive.org/fd08ja/play/... www.10000birds.com/review-birds...

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Seán Ronayne @seanronayne.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

A behind the scenes phone shot from ‘Birdsong’. Ireland’s largest starling murmuration of approx 250,000 birds. A truly spectacular encounter. This Sunday at 7pm GMT we will host an online international screening followed by a live Q&A. Please join us! Tickets: watch.eventive.org/fd08ja/play/...

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