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Den 🇮🇪

@denterrick.bsky.social
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Irish hiker 🇮🇪 🥾 Amateur with a camera 📷 Daily hiking photos with some occasional wildlife, plants and mushrooms.

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Den 🇮🇪 @denterrick.bsky.social · 12h
By the side of a hiking trail in Wicklow. Interesting purple colouration, almost like ink on skin. #Hiking #Fungi #FungiFriends #Mushrooms #ECK #Ireland
Top view of a mushroom cap curled up in places against a green sea of tiny ferns. The outer parts brown with an inner purple stained pattern and a little dew left from the morning rains.
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Den 🇮🇪 @denterrick.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Two little beauties from this morning. #Hiking #FungiFriends #EastCoastKin #Ireland
Small brown mushrooms in a crevice under a fallen tree. The nearest mushroom's cap is starting to split. Leaves and tiny little ferns scattered around.A cluster of small tan coloured mushrooms growing among tiny ferns. Leaf litter all around.
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Den 🇮🇪 @denterrick.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Good morning. For Helen's #BirdOfTheDay theme of #BokehBirds this is a Grey Heron in late afternoon light. #Birds #Heron #ECK #Ireland
A Grey Heron standing in a park lake against a soft muted background.
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Den 🇮🇪 @denterrick.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Nonchalance. #Birds #Swan #SwanDay
A mute swan cygnet staring at passersby in a suburban park. One of six from this year, they all seem to be doing fine.
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Den 🇮🇪 @denterrick.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Sorry if you're bored of mushroom photos but there's so many right now. This odd looking specimen was growing from the remnants of a fence post lying in the mud. The orange colour was incredibly bright in the sun. #Hiking #Photography #Fungi #FungiFriends #StunDay #EastCoastKin #Dublin #Ireland
A bright orange mushroom possibly a Webcap or an Oyster of some variety. It was medium sized, about 7 to 10cm.A bright orange mushroom possibly a Webcap or an Oyster of some variety. It was medium sized, about 7 to 10cm.
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Den 🇮🇪 @denterrick.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
These big dinner plate sized mushrooms grow out in the boggy fields above Lough Bray. #Hiking #Photography #Fungi #FungiFriends #EastCoastKin #Dublin #Ireland
Oyster or funnel mushroom growing on the ground among grasses.Oyster or funnel mushroom growing on the ground among grasses.Deerfield mushroom growing out in the fields among grasses.Deerfield mushroom growing in the mud.
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Den 🇮🇪 @denterrick.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Another one for Rob's bird of the day on a bright and sunny day here in Dublin. #Photography #10MinutesFromHome #Birds #BirdOfTheDay #Green #ColorADay #GreenSat #EastCoastKin #Ireland
We had freakishly strong coffees and ice cream in the park...and a few bird photos...

I've no idea what this heron's expression means. We were nowhere near them, a good 20 metres away on the other side of a small stream. Really, if herons were bigger and stronger they'd be terrifying.
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Den 🇮🇪 @denterrick.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Here's one for Rob's Bird of the Day theme of #Green. #Photography #10MinutesFromHome #Birds #BirdOfTheDay #ColorADay #GreenSat #EastCoastKin #Ireland
A juvenile black headed gull paddling around in green water.
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Den 🇮🇪 @denterrick.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Puffball mushrooms from a Dublin forest. #Photography #ForestFriday #Fungi #FungiFriends #EastCoastKin #Dublin #Ireland
A spiky little puffball pushing up through the leaf litter.A larger more mature version.From above.From above.
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Den 🇮🇪 @denterrick.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Lots of these Sulphur Tufts in the forest right now. A real bumper crop this year. #Hiking #Photography #ForestFriday #Fungi #FungiFriends #Mycology #Mushrooms #EastCoastKin #Dublin #Ireland
A cluster of Sulphur Tuft mushrooms nestled in the hollow of a tree stump.
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Den 🇮🇪 @denterrick.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I'll go one more for Helen's #BirdOfTheDay #BirdStare theme. A heron walking across grass between lakes, eyes me up as I walk by. #Photography #10MinutesFromHome #Birds #Heron #ECK #Dublin #Ireland
A cropped image of the head and neck of a grey heron. Blurred grass in the background.
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Den 🇮🇪 @denterrick.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Please could you stop the noise I'm trying to get some rest. #10MinutesFromHome #Birds #BirdStare #Swan #ECK #Dublin #Ireland
Walking out to dinner this evening we took the long way through the park and saw a mute swan under a tree trying to get some sleep, though it stared at us as we walked by.
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Den 🇮🇪 @denterrick.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Fawn in the forest. #Hiking #Photography #NaturePhotography #WoodlandWednesday #Deer #ECK #Ireland
A young Sika deer caught in a shaft of light a dark green forest.
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Den 🇮🇪 @denterrick.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I don't have many bird photos but for Rob's bird of the day I've got this juvenile herring gull. It had gone for a dip in the lake and stood here cleaning and drying off, oblivious to passers by. #10MinutesFromHome #Birds #Gull #BirdOfTheDay #ECK #Ireland
A juvenile herring gull standing by a grass verge, cleaned up after their watery adventure.An unkempt juvenile herring gull preening and drying off having just walked up out of the lake.
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Den 🇮🇪 @denterrick.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Tiny pocket of beauty in the high fields. #Hiking #Fungi #FungiFriends #Mycology #Mushrooms #ECK #Dublin #Ireland
Two orange/brown mushrooms growing at the side of a boggy trail. Late afternoon sun on a surprisingly warm and clear September day.
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Den 🇮🇪 @denterrick.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Like yesterday we have a bright blue warm day here in Dublin. Had a good morning out in the fields. #Hiking #Fungi #FungiFriends #Mycology #MushroomMonday #ECK #Dublin #Ireland
Looking up the hill at Killakee. Patches of blue sky, forest in the distance.A frail looking red button mushroom. Leaf litter and pine needles all around.A bright, little yellow/brown mushroom growing in detritus of the forest floor. Maybe a Mottlegill.A nice example of a Puffball in prime condition.
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Den 🇮🇪 @denterrick.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Kiss me, kiss me, kiss me. #Hiking #Fungi #FungiFriends #Mycology #MushroomMonday #ECK #Dublin #Ireland
A big, beautiful, bright red mushroom in the forest. It was about 10cm tall and is probably a Russula of some sort.
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Den 🇮🇪 @denterrick.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
More mushrooms from the forest. These stood out with their vivid while colouration, sticky and dripping wet. They're so otherworldly white I think they look quite sinister. #Hiking #Photography #Fungi #FungiFriends #StunDay #ECK #Dublin #Ireland
Tall white mushrooms growing among leaf litter and pine needles on the forest floor.
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Den 🇮🇪 @denterrick.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Foggy day last Winter along the Little Dodder in Cruagh Woods. #Hiking #Fog #Dublin #Ireland
Deep rust coloured red ferns decaying at the edge of the forest. The air thick with moisture obscuring everything else.
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Den 🇮🇪 @denterrick.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Lying in the long grass In the summer At the end of the day #BlueSkyArtShow #Golden #10MinutesFromHome #Sunset #Dublin #Ireland
Hazy photo of reeds and grasses in the last light of the day.
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Den 🇮🇪 @denterrick.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Glorious golden light in the local park. #BlueSkyArtShow #Golden #Birds #Swan #SwanDay #ECK #Dublin #Ireland
A park lake lit up in gold by the evening sun. Looking through the reeds at the swans, heads in the water searching for morsels to eat.
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Den 🇮🇪 @denterrick.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Spotted a few of these creamy, spiky, little beauties in the darkest part of the forest. Many were inaccessible but we eventually found a few we could get to. #Hiking #Photography #Fungi #FungiFriends #ECK #Ireland
This bulbous little thing is a Common Puffball. They give off little puffs of smoke when they start to decay.
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Den 🇮🇪 @denterrick.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
It's mushroom season. Glistening, shiny, sticky mushroom season. #Hiking #ForestFriday #Fungi #FungiFriends #ECK #Ireland
A Larch Bolete growing on the forest floor among pine needles. They have a distinctive membrane under the cap and that curled up ring around the stem.  A moss covered stone wall and the rest of the forest in the background. The wall is likely older than the forest.
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Den 🇮🇪 @denterrick.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
We're trying to fill Graham's feed (@oldmanrambling.bsky.social) with Robins on his dearly missed Janet's 83rd birthday. Please post a robin if you can with the hashtag #ForJanet #Birds #Robins #ForJanet
A small robin contemplating life on the grass verge of a park lake.
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Den 🇮🇪 @denterrick.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Early morning wander. #Hiking #ForestFriday #ECK #Dublin #Ireland
Looking down an old forest hiking path covered in autumn leaves. The surrounding trees indistinct through the foggy haze.
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Den 🇮🇪 @denterrick.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Mushroom world out in the turf bog. (No filter, just hazy because I messed up the focus) #Hiking #Photography #Fungi #FungiFriends #Mycology #Mushrooms #ECK #Dublin #Ireland
A large brown mushroom growing in the soil with heath and heather surrounded by clubmoss and grasses. Could be a deer shield (or similar).
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Den 🇮🇪 @denterrick.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Fence post flora. #Hiking #Photography #ECK #Wicklow #Ireland
Lots to see on top of an old weathered fence post.
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Den 🇮🇪 @denterrick.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Dublin / Wicklow Border. #Hiking #Photography #ECK #Wicklow #Ireland
Up at the border of Dublin and Wicklow counties, a open field of grassland, gorse, turf and boggy paths. Weathered fence posts but not a trace of fence left.
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Den 🇮🇪 @denterrick.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
The underside of a large fungus (~20cm) called the Dyer’s Polypore. It oozes liquid and you can see a few droplets on the leftmost piece. Used in traditional dying for shades of yellow, gold and brown. #Hiking #Photography #WoodlandWednesday #Fungi #FungiFriends #Mycology #ECK #Dublin #Ireland
An image in a dark forest of the underside of a large piece of fungus, brownish/yellow in colour, growing from the floor of the forest.
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Den 🇮🇪 @denterrick.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
This forest doesn't usually look great. It's dry, over planted and not maintained. But in the right light, it looked like this yesterday. #Hiking #Photography #WoodlandWednesday #Forest #Trees #Woodland #Woods #ECK #Dublin #Ireland
A dry dark forest lit up with soft orange light in the early morning.A dry dark forest lit up with soft orange light in the early morning.
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Den 🇮🇪 @denterrick.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Spotted these little yellow beauties while hiking around a forest this morning. #Hiking #Photography #Fungi #FungiFriends #Mycology #EastCoastKin #Dublin #Ireland
Yellow Stagshorn fungus growing on the floor of an Irish forest.
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Den 🇮🇪 @denterrick.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Bonnet mushroom with a fuzzy crown found while hiking around the forests this morning. #Hiking #Photography #Fungi #FungiFriends #Mycology #Mushrooms #EastCoastKin #Dublin #Ireland
A bonnet mushroom infected with parasitic bonnet mold fungus. It only ever affects the cap with the telltale stalks growing straight out.
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Den 🇮🇪 @denterrick.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Finally caught this beautiful rocky spot with a dash of colour at the Glenmacnass River. The end of a long hike around Brockagh and Tonelagee. #Hiking #Photography #RockingTuesday #EastCoastKin #Dublin #Ireland
A rocky river crossing with colourful gorse bushes either side of the stream. A small forest in the distance with Scarr mountain behind it.
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Den 🇮🇪 @denterrick.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Found a double headed mushroom growing in the forest. #Hiking #Photography #Fungi #FungiFriends #Mycology #Mushrooms #MushroomMonday #EastCoastKin #Dublin #Ireland
A two headed False Chanterelle among pine cones on the floor of the forest.A two headed False Chanterelle among pine cones on the floor of the forest.
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Den 🇮🇪 @denterrick.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Perfect timing is when you reach the end of your hike at the edge of the forest just as the sun disappears behind the mountain. #Hiking #Photography #Forest #Trees #Sunset #ECK #Ireland
The sun setting behind Djouce mountain seen from the edge of the little forest at The Great Sugar Loaf in Co. Wicklow.
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Den 🇮🇪 @denterrick.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Here's one for Alan's Bird Of the Day of Angry Birds or #MyBestSide, birds in profile. I've posted many images of angry swans so for a change here's a cygnet in profile not looking to hurt anyone. #Photography #Birds #Swan #SwanDay #BirdOfTheDay #ECK #Ireland
A mute swan cygnet paddling around our local lake, looking innocent as can be.
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Den 🇮🇪 @denterrick.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
A lamellate little beauty. #Hiking #Photography #Fungi #FungiFriends #Mycology #Mushrooms #StunDay #ColorADay #OrangeSun #EastCoastKin #Dublin #Ireland
The gorgeous intricate underside of a tall orange mushroom growing on floor of an Irish forest.
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Den 🇮🇪 @denterrick.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
A busy little #WeeBee #Bees #Bloomscrolling #10MinutesFromHome #EastCoastKin #Dublin #Ireland
Fuzzy little bumblebee on some meadowsweet.
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Den 🇮🇪 @denterrick.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Hiking up the hill at Lough Bray. The ferns are head height with massive boulders deposited here during the last ice age. It's an interesting landscape. #Hiking #Photography #ColorADay #GreenSat #EastCoastKin #Dublin #Ireland
A view up through an overgrown trail of tall ferns, mostly green, some turning brown. Two large boulders sitting on the hill partially obscured by the ferns.
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Den 🇮🇪 @denterrick.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
It's not even Winter yet and I'm already dreaming of Summer. #Hiking #Photography #EastCoastKin #Ireland
Hiking around Vartry I found this little area with boats tied up for the local anglers. A beautiful wetlands area to explore.
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Den 🇮🇪 @denterrick.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
The dark forest. Autumn is at our doorstep now. #Hiking #Photography #ForestFriday #Forest #Trees #Woodland #Woods #EastCoastKin #Dublin #Ireland
A small path between two large dark trees deep in the forest. Golden autumn leaf litter on the ground, deep green moss growing up the sides of the nearest trees and a canopy of still green leaves overhead. Bliss.
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Den 🇮🇪 @denterrick.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Keeping an eye on the kids. I'm claiming that the tiny patch of iridescence on the mother qualifies for Rob's bird of the day theme. 🙂 #Photography #10MinutesFromHome #Birds #Duck #BirdOfTheDay #Iridescence #EastCoastKin #Dublin #Ireland
Mallard chicks frolicking under mother's watchful eye. This was in the first light of the day at our local pond here in the Dublin suburbs.

Early summer on a day where I couldn't sleep so I ended up wandering the park at 6 in the morning. I'm happy to report that most (unfortunately not all) chicks are thriving.
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Den 🇮🇪 @denterrick.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Found this little beauty in the forest last weekend completely alone. No others nearby at all. #Hiking #Photography #Fungi #FungiFriends #Mycology #Mushrooms #EastCoastKin #Dublin #Ireland
A photo of a bright red mushroom growing in the grass on the floor of the forest. Rain drops sitting in the middle of the cap. Likely a Russula of some kind.Side view. It looks more gooey and sticky from this angle with its beautiful gills showing.
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Den 🇮🇪 @denterrick.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Sulphur Tufts (?) in the fields above Lough Bray with a little morning sun. Unfortunately right afterwards I slipped in the mud and sprained my shoulder coming down hard. It's not a bad strain but no fun. #Hiking #Photography #Fungi #FungiFriends #Mycology #Mushrooms #EastCoastKin #Ireland
A cute little group of orange Sulphur Tuft mushrooms growing in the mud.
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Den 🇮🇪 @denterrick.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
This is Lough Ouler in Wicklow, the heart shaped lake. Popular with tourists for that reason but also popular with hikers with a steep incline to get to the top of Tonelagee mountain to look down on the lake. #Hiking #Photography #Scape #Lakes #Mountains #EastCoastKin #Ireland #ShowHeart
A heart shaped lake in Co. Wicklow Ireland. Not easy for casual tourists as the trails are unmarked and it's easy to wander off on the wrong path.

The incline is a bit more effort than many people expect too. I'm not being exclusionary, several people have said this to me as I've met and helped a few groups wandering the fields looking for the lake.Looking down on the lake from above on top of Tonelagee Mountain.
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Den 🇮🇪 @denterrick.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
This is how the day started, pushing up through the ferns towards the cairn at Tibradden. #Hiking #Photography #10MinutesFromHome #ECK #Dublin #Ireland
Ferns growing up the side of the hill in the first light of the day. Pine trees in the distance.
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Den 🇮🇪 @denterrick.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
A Christmas day heron for AB's bird of the day theme. #Herons&Egrets #Photography #Birds #BirdOfTheDay #EastCoastKin #Dublin #Ireland
A grey heron standing on the shore of a suburban lake lit up by the low slung noon day sun. The sun is so low here in Winter that noon looks like 7am in the Summer.
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Den 🇮🇪 @denterrick.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Early morning in Tibradden forest. Happy to get a little sun peeking through. #Hiking #Photography #10MinutesFromHome #RCK #Dublin #Ireland
A quiet forest path in Autumnal colours lit up by a momentary break in the clouds.
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Den 🇮🇪 @denterrick.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
I figured I must have a swan on water for Rob's #BirdOfTheDay. This guy is a young one who (thankfully) has not taken after his father who terrorises our local lake and charges people every chance he gets. This guy is polite in comparison. #Birds #Swan #SwanDay #ECK #Ireland
A closeup of a male mute swan given me the side eye and is probably unsure whether I have some food on offer or whether I'm one of those photo tossers who shows up with a camera and doesn't offer anything to eat in return. Sorry man, next time I promise.
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Den 🇮🇪 @denterrick.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
I thought I'd do a little photo log of a recent hike at Ballinastoe Woods and Djouce Mountain. This one is a decent trek of about 3 or 4 hours with forest, fields, mountain top views and sheep. Always sheep. #Hiking #Photography #StunDay #EastCoastKin #Dublin #Ireland
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