An Beainín Uasal @beainin-uasal.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Strange to see this large flowered butterwort (Leith uisce as gaeilge) in flower this week in #Killarney National Park, County Kerry for #WildflowerHour 0181
Reposted by An Beainín UasalDonna Rainey @donnarainey4.bsky.social · 28/06/2026The most incredible old meadow. Greater & lesser butterfly orchids as well as many other species. #wildflowerhour 58915
An Beainín Uasal @beainin-uasal.bsky.social · 28/06/2026No wonder the Kingdom of Kerry's colours are green and gold! Yellow Bartsia (Hocas tae buí as gaeilge) in a magnificent meadow today in #CountyKerry #Ireland #WildflowerHour 0141
Reposted by An Beainín UasalDonna Rainey @donnarainey4.bsky.social · 28/06/2026Whorled caraway starting to flower, #Glenullin a local speciality. #wildflowerhour 0414
Reposted by An Beainín UasalCatherine Duigan @cduigan.bsky.social · 23/05/2026Living on the edge - the rare and beautiful #Menai #Whitebeam, Sorbus arvonicola, trees of Nantporth #Nature Reserve @northwaleswt.bsky.social #conservation @treborthbg.bsky.social @fossilplants.bsky.social #woodland #Wales @bsbicymru.bsky.social #WalesCoastalPath 0123
Reposted by An Beainín Uasalcianoceallaigh.bsky.social @cianoceallaigh.bsky.social · 17/05/2026I was thrilled to find a new population of Adelanthus lindenbergianus in the Mám Toirce, Conamara last week. It instantly stood out as being something exciting. Three separate patches found with the help of @timoceallaigh.bsky.social. Thanks to @nimbosaecology.bsky.social for confirming 0215
Reposted by An Beainín UasalDavid Misstear @dmisstear.bsky.social · 17/05/2026White Clover, Dún Laoghaire. #wildflowerhour 0182
Reposted by An Beainín UasalCatherine Duigan @cduigan.bsky.social · 17/05/2026The blinding #green of Irish Spurge, #Euphorbia hyberna, Bainne caoin, with white sap like milk or bainne - locally common in SW #Ireland, especially Cape Clear, Oileán Chléire #botany #wildflowerhour 😎 0235
An Beainín Uasal @beainin-uasal.bsky.social · 17/05/2026I was stopped in my tracks this week by an exquisite double petalled cuckoo flower in Killarney National Park in County Kerry. #WildflowerHour 08716
Reposted by An Beainín UasalBSBI Ireland @bsbiireland.bsky.social · 14/12/2025What an early female Hazel flower! Worth a revisit for @bsbibotany.bsky.social's #NewYearPlantHunt ?😃 ❄️ @wildflowerhour.bsky.social @irishwoodlandtrust.bsky.social @mikekally.bsky.social @cedar-ni.bsky.social #Botany #WinterPlants @irishwildlifetrust.bsky.social 2374
An Beainín Uasal @beainin-uasal.bsky.social · 07/12/2025Lus beatha / betony holding on and brightening up a rainy day in #Killarney National Park this week #WildflowerHour 0274
Reposted by An Beainín UasalCatherine Coxon @catherinecoxon.bsky.social · 02/12/2025Alder carr near Ross Castle, Killarney 031
Reposted by An Beainín UasalPádraic Fogarty @whittledaway.bsky.social · 01/12/2025Possible signs of progress at Killarney National Park? This is the Derrycunnihy area of the Park which is being targeted for deer culling and where there are signs of a positive response from the vegetation. Good news... 2367
An Beainín Uasal @beainin-uasal.bsky.social · 05/10/2025Fraoch na haon chose / St Dabeoc's Heath brightening up the day in North Connemara in County Galway for #WildflowerHour 0518
Reposted by An Beainín UasalLana @lamijo.bsky.social · 07/09/2025Teasel seedheads #seedheads #wildflowerhour #Yorkshire #sunset 623733
Reposted by An Beainín UasalNatural Historian @james99.bsky.social · 31/08/2025Got to be Guelder-rose #fruits as a companies by such gorgeously rusty leaves #wildflowerhour 2353
Reposted by An Beainín UasalBSBI Ireland @bsbiireland.bsky.social · 31/08/2025Rosehips after rain, Co Leitrim. Rose ID is 'thorny', but start with this riddle: Q: Mrs Rose has five sons: two have beards, two don't, and one couldn't decide and has half a beard. A: a dog rose, Rosa canina agg.(look at the lobes on the sepals) @bsbibotany.bsky.social #wildflowerhour #fruits 0204
An Beainín Uasal @beainin-uasal.bsky.social · 31/08/2025Caithne / Arbutus #fruit for #WildflowerHour brightening up a rainy day in #Killarney National Park in County Kerry 0285
Reposted by An Beainín UasalDean Mac Cú Uladh @dmac00.bsky.social · 26/07/20251st Irish record of the newly described bryophilous ascomycete Endoantria benetecta on its host Lejeunea patens from the temperate rainforest at Correl Glen, West Fermanagh Known only from Scotland & Wales; this marks the first for Ireland - our rainforests support untold diversity #fungifriends 23611
An Beainín Uasal @beainin-uasal.bsky.social · 03/08/2025Ailleann Pheadair/ golden samphire, Luibh bhléine/ sea aster along with the tiny Peasair arbhair/ hairy tare #ByTheSea in Rosscarbery County Cork. The raspberry sorbet ice-cream there is well worth it #WildflowerHour 061
Reposted by An Beainín UasalRichard Milne @milneorchid.bsky.social · 20/07/2025Can I sneak in an Irish plant for #WildflowerHour? The extreme rarity Cottonweed, Achillea (=Otanthus) maritima, from its only British Isles site in dunes in SE Ireland. Incredible silver colour, looks more like a desert plant! One more species to add to namethatplant.org. 1647
Reposted by An Beainín UasalAoife @aoifeb1.bsky.social · 20/07/2025Lesser Butterfly Orchid with a background of Heather and Bell Heather in #Galway #wildflowerhour @wildflowerhour.bsky.social 0516
An Beainín Uasal @beainin-uasal.bsky.social · 20/07/2025A joy to see hocas tae buí/ yellow bartsia in a very wet #Killarney National Park today. Many times I've passed this field and failed to notice #WildflowerHour 0172
Reposted by An Beainín UasalCarlos M Herrera @cmhmaliani.bsky.social · 18/07/2025Hembra de Amegilla ochroleuca visitando flores de Stachys officinalis para libar néctar, haciendo gala de su vertiginosa velocidad habitual. En promedio se detiene en cada flor un poco menos de un segundo. El polen que lleva cargado es de Hypericum perforatum, que está en flor en los alrededores. 1376
Reposted by An Beainín UasalTristan Norton @trisnorton.bsky.social · 14/07/2025Ivy-leaved Bellflower Wahlenbergia hederacea in the New Forest, Hampshire today. Thankfully, in a shady spot, otherwise these fragile flowers would probably be toast. @bsbibotany.bsky.social 0312
Reposted by An Beainín UasalDavid Misstear @dmisstear.bsky.social · 13/07/2025Hemp-agrimony, Ballyshannon, Co. Donegal. #hairyplants #wildflowerhour 0263
An Beainín Uasal @beainin-uasal.bsky.social · 13/07/2025Lus na Tríonóide / great willowherb in the sunshine in Castleisland, #Kerry for #Hairyplants #WildflowerHour 1576
Reposted by An Beainín UasalDermot Breen @dermotbreen.bsky.social · 08/07/2025This Loggerhead Turtle was found by a tourist on Lettergesh beach, Rinvyle today. I collected her & brought her half the way down to Dingle Oceanworld Aquarium who specialise in the rehabilitation of sea turtles. 7th Loggerhead to be found in Ireland this year.🤞for a successful recovery. 0152
An Beainín Uasal @beainin-uasal.bsky.social · 06/07/2025Killarney National Park this week, broad leaf helleborine for #HelleborineChallenge #WildflowerHour 1252
Reposted by An Beainín UasalRTÉ News @news.rte.ie · 26/06/2025Large-scale, illegal commercial extraction of peat is decimating vital ecosystems, according to the Environmental Protection Agency www.rte.ie/news/2025/06...rte.ieIllegal peat extraction causing catastrophic damage -EPAThe large-scale, illegal commercial extraction of peat is widespread in Ireland and the sector does not operate within planning or environmental laws. 72514
Reposted by An Beainín UasalAdrian Scanlon, alias, nigeldaniel @adrianscanlon.bsky.social · 24/06/2025#foxgloves #flowers #rockery #gardens #ireland 061
Reposted by An Beainín UasalJohn Fellowes @jrf66.bsky.social · 24/06/2025Invasive Alien Species in Europe: "the greatest opportunities to reduce regional species extinction risk by mitigating threats from IAS come from managing feral goats (12.4%), mouflons (8.1%), rabbits (5.3%) and rats (4.6%)." neobiota.pensoft.net/article/1483...neobiota.pensoft.netGuiding action on invasive alien species towards meeting the EU's Biodiversity Strategy for 2030Invasive alien species (IAS) are a major threat to global biodiversity. The total cost of biological invasions across all European Union member states has been estimated at 129.9 billion US dollars be... 046
Reposted by An Beainín UasalBSBI Ireland @bsbiireland.bsky.social · 22/06/2025Lesser Marshwort (Apium inundatum) can exist on muddy lakeshores or submerged, but it definitely fit the #AquaticPlants bill today, after all the rain🌧. Tricky to photograph too! Lower leaves are filamentous, like water-crowfoot @wildflowerhour.bsky.social #wildflowerhour @bsbibotany.bsky.social 0333
Reposted by An Beainín UasalBSBI Ireland @bsbiireland.bsky.social · 22/06/2025Bladder Sedge, Water-pepper, Water-plantain, Lesser Marshwort and Cyperus Sedge: #AquaticPlants at Lough Allen, Co Leitrim this evening @bsbibotany.bsky.social @wildflowerhour.bsky.social #wildflowerhour #LoveLeitrim #wetlandplants @communitywetlands.bsky.social 1576
Reposted by An Beainín Uasalcaitrionalee.bsky.social @caitrionalee.bsky.social · 22/06/2025For #WildflowerHour tonight, aquatic-adjacent #AquaticPlants - bog residents Lesser Butterfly Orchid (Platanthera bifolia or, in Irish: Magairlín beag an fhéileacáin) in Co. Kildare. Do #TráthnamBláth anocht, seo Magairlín Beag an Fhéileacáin, ina chónaí ar an bportaigh i gCo. Chill Dara. 0302
Reposted by An Beainín UasalJo Stephen @jostephen.bsky.social · 22/06/2025Leser Bladderwort, Utricularia minor, in a Dorset bog. #aquaticplants #wildflowerhour 0666
Reposted by An Beainín UasalMoira O'Donnell @naturelark.bsky.social · 24/04/2025www.rspb.org.uk/whats-happen...rspb.org.ukUK’s oldest known Oystercatchers discovered on England’s east coast wetlands 0163
Reposted by An Beainín UasalBTO | British Trust for Ornithology @btobirds.bsky.social · 23/04/2025Another day another Cuckoo! 😀 18 days earlier than last year, Cuach Cores is back in Ireland. 🎉 Discover his migration on our website ➡️ www.bto.org/cuckoos #Ornithology 46911
Reposted by An Beainín UasalDonna Rainey @donnarainey4.bsky.social · 20/04/2025The tiny Adder's tongue fern in my lawn. #wildflowerhour 0612
Reposted by An Beainín UasalRosie Rutherford @rosieruth.bsky.social · 20/04/2025Spring Gentian and Mountain Avens in the Burren today #wildflowerhour 1514
Reposted by An Beainín UasalDr Jill Whitelock @jillwhitelock.bsky.social · 20/04/2025Field madder back in flower at @theul.bsky.social. #TinyPlants #WildflowerHour 1888
Reposted by An Beainín UasalDermot Breen @dermotbreen.bsky.social · 20/04/2025Russian White-fronted Goose hanging out with feral Greylag Geese on Tumduffbeg Lake, Boora, Co. Offaly today. Probably a county first (?) and only the second I've seen in Ireland. I saw my first ever White-fronted Goose (Greenland) literally on the other side of the road 30 years ago! 😳 091
An Beainín Uasal @beainin-uasal.bsky.social · 20/04/2025Mórán gaelach/ Irish saxifrage on Inis Mór today, a bit late for#WildflowerHour 1714
Reposted by An Beainín UasalCape Clear Bird Observatory (CCBO) @ccbowarden.bsky.social · 06/04/2025Today's highlights; the first Irish record of Corncrake for this year as one was flushed close to West Bog, at least 4 Hoopoe still present, Common Redstart, Black Redstart, Tree Pipit and 6 Bramblings. 51 birds ringed included Redwing, Brambling and a ' tristis ' Chiffchaff see photo (JH). 2314
Reposted by An Beainín UasalMalcolm Noonan @malcolmnoonan.bsky.social · 01/04/2025Spring in our little town garden; tawny mining bees, early nomadic bee (I think), lesser celandine, violet, primrose and cowslips. 083
Reposted by An Beainín UasalIreland's Native Woodland Trust @irishwoodlandtrust.bsky.social · 30/03/2025A selection of woodland flowers from Ardan Wood in Co. Westmeath #wildflowerhour 0849
An Beainín Uasal @beainin-uasal.bsky.social · 30/03/2025Slánú fiacal /toothwort starting to flower in Killarney County Kerry this week for #WildflowerHour 081
Reposted by An Beainín UasalSarah Lambert @sarahlambert7.bsky.social · 30/03/2025The subtle but rather beautiful star-shaped flowers of Hairy Woodrush Luzula pilosa, composed of six deep brown tepals (not #sepals or petals) with a clear margin, encasing greenish anthers and a feathery stigma on a column. An ancient woodland indicator... #wildflowerhour @bsbibotany.bsky.social 212815
Reposted by An Beainín UasalProf Duncan Westbury @duncanwestbury.bsky.social · 30/03/2025An ancient woodland indicator, Wood anemone. Why? Because it mainly grows vegetatively and spreads slowly. Every year I take a photo of this same patch. Photos below from 2017 & 2025. @bsbibotany.bsky.social @lgspace.bsky.social @wtscotsocial.bsky.social 38510
