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Johnny Mac

@johnnythecow.bsky.social
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Mid Wales based. Ninety percent human, half Irish, half Mancunian, half pharmaceuticals, two thirds rubbish at fractions. Wildlife, nature, conservation and general nice stuff. www.fragmentsoflight.co.uk

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Johnny Mac @johnnythecow.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
If Rothko did seascapes #rothko #ceredigion #cardiganbay #coast #wales #walescoastpath #llwybrarfordircymru @walescoastpath1.bsky.social @walescoastpath.bsky.social
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Johnny Mac @johnnythecow.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Aldi…and all of the night. #aldi #supermarket #edwardhopper #nighthawks #thekinks #kinks #lowlight #nightlife #carmarthenshire
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Johnny Mac @johnnythecow.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Uireasa a mhéadaíonn cumha. Glencar, Slievemore, and Ben Bulben. Sligeach, Éire. #glencarlough #waterfalls #glencar #drumcliff #slievemore #kingsmountain #benbulben #sligo #ireland #wbyeats #landscape #nature #longing #hiraeth
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Johnny Mac @johnnythecow.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
I like to be at one with nature, but occasionally I feel a more unerring level of empathy than I perhaps should… #dead #tree #decay #westport #westporthouse #mayo #ireland
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Johnny Mac @johnnythecow.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Call him a Circín Trágha, a Sea Lintie, a Tangle Sparrow…Call him a Rock Pipit. #beachchicken #pipit #birds #birdlife #nature #wildlife #murrisk #westport #mayo #ireland @birdwatchireland.bsky.social
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Johnny Mac @johnnythecow.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Rock Pipit Rock #rockpipit #pipit #birds #birdlife #wildlife #nature #bertrastrand #westport #mayo #ireland @birdwatchireland.bsky.social
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Johnny Mac @johnnythecow.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
A bird does not sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song. #wagtail #piedwagtail #birds #birdlife #wildlife #nature #westport #bertrastrand #mayo #ireland
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Johnny Mac @johnnythecow.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Four hundred and thirty million years of the Devil’s Bridge Formation. #geology #silurian #lithostratigraphy #mudstone #ystwythvalley #llanafan #aberystwyth #ceredigion @bgs.ac.uk
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Johnny Mac @johnnythecow.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Whilst camouflage may make you disappear, it will never make you go away completely. #rockpipit #birds #wildlife #nature #westport #mayo #ireland
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Johnny Mac @johnnythecow.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Like a bird on the wire, like a drunk in a midnight choir, I have tried, in my way to be free… #birdonthewire #leonardcohen #lyrics #stonechat #birds #birdlife #wildlife #nature #wire #bertrabeach #westport #mayo #ireland
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Johnny Mac @johnnythecow.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
The Ystwyth Dipper #dipper #hafod #hafodestate #ystwyth #birds #birdlife #wildlife #nature #cwmystwyth #afonystwyth #aberystwyth #nationaltrust @nationaltrust.org.uk @rspbcymru.bsky.social
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Johnny Mac @johnnythecow.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
The innocent and the beautiful have no enemy but time. #wbyeats #poetry #grogwynion #woodland #nature #landscape #ystwyth #ystwythvalley #aberystwyth #ceredigion #wales
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Johnny Mac @johnnythecow.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
…where one Sunday every summer, the pilgrims climb the Reek. #croaghpatrick #stpatrick #pilgrimage #mountain #murrisk #westport #clewbay #mayo #ireland
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Johnny Mac @johnnythecow.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Oh the Green and Red of Mayo I can see it still, Its soft and craggy boglands Its tall majestic hills. Where the ocean kisses Ireland And the waves carress its shore, Oh the feelin' it came over me To stay forever more, forever more. #mayo #gaa #gaelicfootball #allireland #sammaguire #ireland
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Johnny Mac @johnnythecow.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Sea-hunters, bog-cutters, those who lit the beacon for the lost armada of musket men. In the country of apparitions a gust becomes a gale, commodious enough to lift up and carry away the Céide Fields and famine village harboured in the glen. The History of Fog, Gerard Smyth #clewbay #poetry
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Johnny Mac @johnnythecow.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Where the wandering water gushes, from the hills above Glencar. In pools among the rushes that scarce could bathe a star we seek for slumbering trout, and whispering in their ears give them unquiet dreams. Leaning softly out from ferns that drop their tears over the young streams. W B Yeats
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Johnny Mac @johnnythecow.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Give me a pint of that black beer. #guinness #westport #mayo #ireland #thequietman #bokeh #mjhobans #hobansbar
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Johnny Mac @johnnythecow.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Sometimes activity requires absolute stillness. #greyheron #heron #birds #birdlife #wildlife #nature #peatlandspark #dungannon #ireland
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Johnny Mac @johnnythecow.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
An Seisiún at Matt Molloy’s, Westport, Mayo. Ripping the tunes through the warm summer Connaught night. McGoldrick and Regan driving the melodies took me back 35 years to those two making it all happen with Toss the Feathers, magnificent. #irish #traditionalirishmusic #session #music #ireland
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Johnny Mac @johnnythecow.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
A free state farewell…until the next time. #dublin #baileathacliath #clontarf #dollymount #dollymountstrand #bullisland #bullwall #lighthouse #northbullislandlighthouse #starofthesea #wildswimming #bathingshelter #ireland
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Johnny Mac @johnnythecow.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
The Great Western Greenway / Bealach Mór an Iarthair Unsuccessfully dodging showers and successfully chasing the sunshine whilst cycling from Achill Island to Westport, Mayo. Making full use of a favourable Atlantic tailwind. #greatwesterngreenway #achillisland #westport #mayo #ireland #cycling
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Johnny Mac @johnnythecow.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
See the pilgrims climb the reek. #croaghpatrick #pilgrimage #clewbay #westport #mayo
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Johnny Mac @johnnythecow.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
Sunshine at Culleenamore, rain at An Ros. #knocknarea #CnocnaRiabh #coolera #coolerapeninsula #queenmaeve #MiosgánMeadhbha #cairn #weather #rain #hilwalking #culleenamore #rossespoint #anros #strandhill #sligo #ireland
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Johnny Mac @johnnythecow.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
“Where the wandering water gushes, from the hills above Glencar…” #glencarwaterfall #glencar #waterfall #cascade #wbyeats #thestolenchild #poetry #sligo #ireland
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Johnny Mac @johnnythecow.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
River splashes against the rocks and I scale a slope, I hope the tracks won’t lead me down to dark black pits or places where we fall to bits… In my Mersey paradise. #mersey #merseyparadise #liverpool #stoneroses #skyline #lowlight #night #river #silhouette
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Johnny Mac @johnnythecow.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Lifetime president of the Annagarriff Angling Society #heron #greyheron #bird #birdlife #wildlife #nature #peatlandspark #armagh #dungannon #ireland
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Johnny Mac @johnnythecow.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
‘Sperrin’ a thought for those of you who didn’t have a shady forest or a fresh, invigorating mountain stream to wet your cap in during this heatwave…although it was still overly uncomfortable. #sperrins #sperrinmountains #gortinglens #tyrone #tireoghain #ireland
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Johnny Mac @johnnythecow.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
Previously had a pretty uninspiring lawn, so I offered up a dash of wildflower seeds hoping to improve the lot. This summer the sward is a heady blend and of grasses interwoven with vetches, clovers, yarrow, knapweed, bedstraw, and self heal. #wildflowers #meadow #pollinators #garden #aberystwyth
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Johnny Mac @johnnythecow.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Birdsfoot Trefoil, on the long island. #birdsfoottrefoil #wildflowers #flora #nature #wildlife #ynyshir #macro @rspbcymru.bsky.social
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Johnny Mac @johnnythecow.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Sunny afternoon at Cors Dyfi. #fourspottedchaser #dragonfly #reedbed #wetlands #wildlife #wildlifephotography #nature #naturephotography #bog #dyfi
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Johnny Mac @johnnythecow.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
Ox-eye Daisy, detail. #oxeyedaisy #flora #wildflowers #naturephotography #macro
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Johnny Mac @johnnythecow.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
Drawn to the light #mottledbeauty #willowbeauty #moth #lepidoptera #wildlfe #wildlifephotography #nature #naturephotography #macro #macrophotography
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Johnny Mac @johnnythecow.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
In the rhizome zone #oxeyedaisy #wildflowers #flora #nature #naturephotography #corscaron #ygors #raisedbog #tregaron #aberystwyth
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Johnny Mac @johnnythecow.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
Bob #birds #birdlife #wildlife #nature #newportwetlands @rspb.bsky.social @rspbcymru.bsky.social
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Johnny Mac @johnnythecow.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
Just a caterpillar in his Sunday best. #paintedlady #butterfly #macro #nature #wildlife #newportwetlands #gwentlevels @rspbcymru.bsky.social @rspb.bsky.social
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Johnny Mac @johnnythecow.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
Got a headful of lightning, got a hatful of rain. #lightning #storm #lightningstrike #tomwaits #longwayhome #lowlight #electricalstorm #darkness #weather #ystwythvalley #llanafan #aberystwyth
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Johnny Mac @johnnythecow.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Everything is grey in one way or another. #greyheron #heron #birds #birdlife #wildlife #wildlifephotography #nature #naturephotography #flight #bog #corscaron #tregaron #tregaronbog #aberystwyth #ceredigion @rspb.bsky.social @rspbcymru.bsky.social
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Johnny Mac @johnnythecow.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
When it’s warm, they swarm. #swarm #bees #honeybees #hive #nest #honeycomb #wildlife #wildlifephotography #nature #naturephotography #corscaron #teifi #afonteifi #bog #tregaron #aberystwyth #ceredigion #mancunian #workerbee #drone
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Johnny Mac @johnnythecow.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
Alright, alright, keep your Heron! #greyheron #heron #birds #birdlife #wildlife #wildlifephotography #nature #naturephotography #bog #corscaron #tregaron #tregaronbog #aberystwyth #ceredigion @rspb.bsky.social @rspbcymru.bsky.social
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Johnny Mac @johnnythecow.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Not everything in life is black and white, but sometimes things are. #piedflycatcher #birds #birdlife #birdphotography #wildlife #wildlifephotography #nature #naturephotography #woodland #coedcwmcletwr #cwmcletwr #aberystwyth #ceredigion @rspb.bsky.social @rspbcymru.bsky.social @wtsww.bsky.social
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Johnny Mac @johnnythecow.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
Grey/Green #greywagtail #cwmcletwr #birdlife #birds #wildlife #wildlifephotography #nature #naturephotography #woodland #outdoors #trerddol #dyfi #dovey #aberystwyth #ceredigion @rspb.bsky.social @rspbcymru.bsky.social @wtsww.bsky.social
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Johnny Mac @johnnythecow.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Catcher in the oaks. #piedflycatcher #flycatcher #birds #birdlife #wildlife #wildlifephotography #nature #naturephotography #trerddol #aberystwyth #cwmcletwr @rspb.bsky.social @rspbcymru.bsky.social @the-wildlifetrusts.bsky.social @wtsww.bsky.social
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Johnny Mac @johnnythecow.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
Wherever a northerner ends up in this world, he’ll never be far from a dry stone wall. #drystonewall #thrift #seathrift #wildflowers #flora #llanafan #ystwythvalley #aberystwyth
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Johnny Mac @johnnythecow.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
In the shadow of the pines. #carterfamily #johnnycash #woodland #forestry #windblow #stormdamage #sunset #sundown #evening #lowlight #goldenhour #llanafan #trawscoed #ystwythvalley #aberystwyth
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Johnny Mac @johnnythecow.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
When did I realise that I was middle class? Sourdough, focaccia. Cut through with Halen Mon roasted garlic and chilli salt. Dressed up with tarragon and red onion. Drenched in Filippo Berio Classico. GET IN MY BLOODY BELLY! #baking #homebaking #food #bread #sourdough #focaccia
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Johnny Mac @johnnythecow.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
Trefoil, Bird’s Foot (Greater) #Lotuspedunculatus #trefoil #bitdsfoottrefoil #flowers #flora #wildflowers #macro #macrophotography #detail #nature #naturephotography #ynyshir #aberystwyth #ceredigion #wales
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Johnny Mac @johnnythecow.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
Reflective. An Ystwyth idyll, until you start picking out the Rhododendron, the Japanese Knotweed, and the Himalayan Balsam. #inns #invasivespecies #naturephotography #nature #blackcovert #gelliddu #llanafan #ystwythvalley #afonystwyth #river #riverystwyth #trawscoed #aberystwyth
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Johnny Mac @johnnythecow.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
Froghopper #Cercopisvulnerata #cercopidae #redandblackfroghopper #bug #insect #geranium #wildlife #nature #macro #macrophotography #llanafan #aberystwyth #Ceredigion
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Johnny Mac @johnnythecow.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
My toe hurts, Betty. #woodpigeon #pigeon #birds #birdlife #birding #birddong #wildlife #wildlifephotography #nature #naturephotography @rspb.bsky.social @rspbcymru.bsky.social
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Johnny Mac @johnnythecow.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
Blackbird Jr. has taken to bathing (and dining on the bugs and grubs) in the waterfall over the garden pond. It’s like an avian re-telling of a 1980s Timotei advert. #blackbird #juvenile #wildlife #wildlifephotography #nature #birds #birding #birdlife @rspbcymru.bsky.social @rspb.bsky.social
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