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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

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

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.

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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.

Deerfield mushroom growing out in the fields among grasses.

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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 · 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 · 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 · 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

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 · 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 · 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.

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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

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 · 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 · 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

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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