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Heather Bothwell @heatherbothwell.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

Yes I do look at sepals , early dog violet I think , thanks to #wildflowerhour flowering in Co Cavan #Gartnanoul peninsula , lough Oughter system

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BirdLife International @birdlifeglobal.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

Every spring, Sand Martins return from Africa to carve tiny tunnels into riverbanks across Europe. They chatter, dive, and skim low over water, never far from their colony. ✨ Their journey connects ecosystems across continents, linking breeding and wintering grounds through migration.🤍

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Heather Bothwell @heatherbothwell.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

Snipe in the Flow Bog , Co Cavan . Camaflague , blink and you’ll miss it @communitywetlands.bsky.social

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Carla Jack @pocketwildingie.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

Why is hunting #Redlist woodcocks still legal in ireland? "These are one of our most cryptic native birds, hiding away by day in the tangle of the woodland floor, becoming active during the hours of darkness, from dusk to dawn." @miseanja.bsky.social www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/ou...

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Anja Murray: Shy — and red-listed — woodcock still on legal hunting list

In 2023, the Government reviewed which birds can legally hunted in Ireland and when. The review resulted in four species of duck being removed from the quarry list — birds that can be shot during open...

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Markus Eichhorn @markuseichhorn.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

What do deer eat in the winter? In the UK a common assumption is that they subsist on over-wintering crops or grazing land. In our new paper led by Amy Gresham we overturn that story. 1/7 besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Graphical abstract for Gresham et al. (2025). Full abstract: A DNA metabarcoding study of the diet of fallow deer (Dama dama) in North Wales has revealed a dominance of bramble Rubus fruticosus agg.) in the diet across seasons. The diet was significantly less diverse in winter compared to other seasons. As we work to expand tree cover and enhance woodland resilience and biodiversity in the United Kingdom amid climate change and emerging diseases, we should seek to understand the dynamic interactions of increasing deer populations with rapidly changing treescapes.

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Heather Bothwell @heatherbothwell.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

Sap rising in February, a Sycamore , Co Cavan today. I pruned off some branches on a young sapling .

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Heather Bothwell @heatherbothwell.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

Marvellous jelly ears I think in woods today Killeshandra on elder

Size comparison of jelly ear fungus on wood Killeshandra

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Elva Johnston @elvabjohnston.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

Jan 29: Feast of Dallán Forgaill (†598) of Maigen / Moynehall, Cavan, a famous professional poet; once believed to be the author of an elegy for St Columba of Iona; scholars now believe the poem is a later composition that gained authority from Dallán's name RIA MS 23 E 25 (Lebor na hUidre), p5

Introduction to Amra Choluim Chille in Lebor na hUidre; you can see Dallán's name at the end of the sixth line beneath the decorative opening initial

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Heather Bothwell @heatherbothwell.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

I am supposing these are slime moulds , on dead wood today. Not as soft as they look

Globular white translucent substance, possibly slime mould on dead wood

Translucent organism on dead wood . Possibly slim mould with a wavy structure

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